| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare
| 21st Century Cures Act won't get Senate treatment | | Tuesday, January 19, 2016 9:45 PM | |
| | The leader of a key Senate committee said Tuesday that the panel won't take up the House-passed 21st Century Cures Act, a far reaching bill intended to spur medical innovation, and would instead pursue many of its goals in smaller-bore legislation. |
| CMS reins in special enrollment chances for ACA plans | | Tuesday, January 19, 2016 5:11 PM | |
| | Heeding the calls of upset health insurers, the CMS has purged several categories of circumstances that allow consumers to get plans through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces outside the open enrollment period. |
| CHIME launches $1 million challenge on patient matching | | Tuesday, January 19, 2016 2:30 PM | |
| | The professional association of hospital CIOs is offering $1 million for a universal patient identifier method that could enable providers and health information exchanges to automate the record matching system and ensure 100% accuracy. |
| Supreme Court rejects another case challenging ACA | | Tuesday, January 19, 2016 2:15 PM | |
| | The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act, saying it won't hear a case that alleges the law should have originated in the House instead of the Senate. |
| UnitedHealth's ACA exchange losses reach $720 million | | Tuesday, January 19, 2016 12:15 PM | |
| | UnitedHealth Group's first foray with the health insurance exchanges turned out to be a little worse than expected. UnitedHealth lost $720 million on its individual-market health plans in 2015, the company said Tuesday, several million dollars above... |
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