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The proposed rule would enable employers to establish association health plans designed to increase competition and reduce premium costs.
The provider and insurer forged a multi-year partnership to serve United and Medicare Advantage members in southwest Ohio.
The companies will also build a new managed services organization called True Health New Mexico.
Eligible clinicians are encouraged to log-in early and often to familiarize themselves with the system.
Concern is that lack of covered individuals will lead to increase in price of premiums.
Mississippi will receive Section 1115 demonstration program extension under new policy.
The open enrollment period that ended Dec. 15 was more than a month shorter than last year's closing date.
The organizations will see their Medicare reimbursement rates dip by 1 percent in the coming year.
For 2019, CMS will blend 25 percent of encounter data into risk scores for MA payment.
The Republican Senator voted for tax reform on assurances that legislation to stabilize individual market would be included in end-of-year spending bill.