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Lawmakers are considering relaxing or eliminating the restrictions on how much more insurers can charge older consumers.
Annual AHIP Institute and Expo takes place June 7-9 in Austin, Texas.
Congress and President Trump will pass a bill to repeal the law but it will not institute major changes immediately, the former HHS secretary said.
Slavitt and McClellan say software is still not meeting the needs of clinicians and patients.
The acquisition includes more than 14,500 providers, expanding CareCredit's national network of more than 200,000 healthcare providers.
Young and Kay explain how to handle payment reform under MACRA and the law's mandate to rid Medicare cards of Social Security numbers.
Preventable hospital readmissions are estimated to account for more than $17 billion in Medicare expenditures each year; hospitals pay as a result.
The change comes as addiction to opioids, which include heavy-duty painkillers and heroin, still sweeps the country.
Experts say there's room to "skinny up" the requirements in some areas by changing regulations that federal officials wrote to implement the law.
The project will likely take six to eight years to complete, and is one of a number of expansion projects being undertaken by Children's.