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The biggest worry is that hospitals and physicians could bear the cost of uncompensated care the way they did before passage of the ACA.
Physicians from the six affected countries also make up a significant share of the workforce in the Rust Belt and Appalachian states.
The bill would give the states the ability to pull Medicaid enrollees from the program by counting their lottery winnings as income.
The authors estimated that 12 percent of telehealth visits replaced visits to other providers, while 88 percent represented new utilization.
The former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services breaks down problem he sees with bill in 25-part Twitter thread.
Beginning in 2020, the GOP plan would provide tax credits to help people pay for health insurance based on household income and age, with a limit of $14,000 per family.
Projected federal cost to pay for Obamacare insurance in 2019 lowered to $148 billion from $214 billion, CBO says.
The move comes on the heels of its acquisition of Washington-based Group Health Cooperative on Feb. 1.
Hospitals showed improvement in key metrics like 30-day readmission rates and risk-adjusted mortality.
No longer the sole province of top-shelf regional health systems, the technological approach is being utilized even by outfits that don't provide direct care.