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Senate easily passes procedural vote to advance Cures Act
Monday, December 05, 2016 6:02 PM
The sweeping legislation passed the House last week and President Barack Obama has said he intends to sign it as soon as it reaches his desk.


Ascension CEO Tersigni prepares to meet Trump transition team
Monday, December 05, 2016 5:11 PM
Ascension CEO Anthony Tersigni is planning to meet this week with President-elect Donald Trump's transition team to give input on healthcare reform. As head of the nation's largest not-for-profit hospital company, Tersigni has used his visibility to...


Kaiser names first chief community health officer
Monday, December 05, 2016 4:54 PM
Kaiser CEO Bernard Tyson said the giant health system is committed to improving the health of the 60 million people in the areas they serve. Choucair will lead those efforts.


What it will take to stop insurers from fleeing after the ACA's repeal
Monday, December 05, 2016 2:18 PM
Some insiders say they are encouraged that GOP leaders are slowly recognizing they need to take steps to shore up the fragile individual insurance market if they repeal the ACA soon after Donald Trump takes office without an immediate replacement.


House Republicans win delay in case to end ACA cost-sharing subsidies
Monday, December 05, 2016 1:49 PM
A federal appeals court has agreed to delay consideration of a lawsuit from Republican lawmakers over the Affordable Care Act. President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress plan to repeal and replace the law next year.


Hospitals report disappointing results on goals to drop hospital-acquired infections
Monday, December 05, 2016 1:39 PM
Three kinds of infections declined, but not to target levels. And rates for certain urinary tract infections didn't fall at all.


Telemedicine bill could get House vote this week
Monday, December 05, 2016 12:43 PM
The House this week is expected to vote on a bill that promotes telemedicine and unanimously passed in the Senate last week.


U.S. attorneys say Aetna-Humana merger would spike Medicare prices
Monday, December 05, 2016 12:03 PM
Attorneys for the U.S. Justice Department and Aetna clashed over whether Aetna's proposed takeover of Humana would reduce competition and hurt seniors in Medicare Advantage programs.


Blue Cross of Michigan on path to cut expenses by $300 million by 2019
Monday, December 05, 2016 11:46 AM
Executives are concerned that changes to the Obamacare health insurance marketplace could disrupt planned individual health insurance products for 2018 that will be due to the Michigan insurance commissioner's office in April.


The state of the ACA's risk corridors
Monday, December 05, 2016 12:01 AM
The Obama administration is now on the hook for more than $8 billion in risk-corridor payments to cover insurer losses on the health insurance exchanges, but industry experts are growing more doubtful the full tab will ever be paid.


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