FAQ: How Will The Individual Mandate Work?
The controversial health law provision that requires most individuals to get insurance is still not well understood.
Alvin Tran
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Electronic Health Records Help Cut Costs For Mass. Community Docs: Study
This study, however, is the largest to assess the impact EHRs have in community-based settings, including in private practices and community hospital care. In the study, researchers analyzed and compared insurance claims data for patient care at three Massachusetts communities that adopted EHRs to six that did not. They found that outpatient spending did not […]
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Obama Administration Mulls Rule To Give Home Health Aides Better Wages
In 2011, the president called for a change in the Fair Labor Standards Act to provide minimum wage and overtime guarantees for these workers. But the proposal has been strongly opposed by some industry and disability groups.
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Nurse Practitioners Push To Help Care For Health Law’s Newly Insured
In a KHN interview, David Hebert, CEO of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, says lawmakers should allow advanced practice nurses to practice more independently to make sure the nation's 27 million newly covered will be able to get timely and quality care.
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Federal Government To Run Insurance Marketplaces In Half The States
Friday deadline passes and states largely bypass the option to work with the federal government in setting up new online health insurance marketplaces that open for business Oct. 1.
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