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Mashup Score: 9States want to make it harder for health insurers to deny care, but firms might evade enforcement • Stateline - 1 month(s) ago
In recent years insurers have ratcheted up their use of prior authorization, which requires doctors to obtain approval before they’ll pay for certain drugs, treatments and procedures.
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Mashup Score: 5Hospitals Are Adding Billions in ‘Facility’ Fees for Routine Care - 2 month(s) ago
Unsuspecting patients are finding themselves at the mercy of institutions tacking on the bills.
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Mashup Score: 7J.J. and Mason’s story - 2 month(s) ago
In 2019, J.J.’s 9-year-old son Mason was diagnosed with leukemia. While treatment was initially successful, Mason relapsed the following year. He did not sur…
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The new regulation reverses a Trump-era policy that expanded access to health plans with fewer benefits than those sold on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces.
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Mashup Score: 3Hospitals Are Adding Billions in ‘Facility’ Fees for Routine Care - 2 month(s) ago
Unsuspecting patients are finding themselves at the mercy of institutions tacking on the bills.
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Mashup Score: 0Patients hate American health care. But presidential candidates aren't talking about it. - 2 month(s) ago
Although health care has not come up much as a campaign issue for the presumptive candidates, people still consider it a major public problem.
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Patients generally can’t change insurance until end-of-year enrollment periods. No such restraint applies to providers and insurers when they get in a dispute.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reports that 21.3 million consumers have signed up for 2024 individual market health insurance coverage through the Marketplaces since the start of the 2024 Marketplace Open Enrollment Period (OEP) on November 1.
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Mashup Score: 1Miller-Meeks: We must increase the quality of life for children with complex diseases | The Iowa Torch - 3 month(s) ago
Mariannette Miller-Meeks: Children and their families are forced to wait for insurance companies to process and screen their physicians before they can even begin or continue treatment.
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Mashup Score: 5Gov. Pritzker touts proposed health insurance reforms in Illinois - 3 month(s) ago
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker discussed legislation Wednesday that would change how health insurance companies operate in Illinois.
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"For patients with...cancer, prior authorization delays and denials are a common occurrence: A 2023 study found that 1 out of every 5 cancer patients did not receive the care recommended by their treatment team because of the prior authorization process." https://t.co/DGnBmI7hxE