Enrollment is Open – Helping Patients Get Insurance on the Health Care Exchange

Open enrollment for individual insurance policies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) began Sunday,…

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CMS Extends Deadline for Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Informal Review Process

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is extending the 2014 Informal Review period…

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NCMS Closely Monitoring Proposed Health Insurance Mergers

The proposed mergers between health insurance giants Aetna and Humana and Anthem and Cigna have…

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AMA Resources Help to Understand New Payment Model in Commercial Payer Contracts

Commercial payers are increasingly pursuing contracts with physicians based on new payment models,…

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AMA Study: Health Insurance Mergers Would Diminish Competition in Many States

From AMA reports The combined impact of proposed mergers among four of the nation’s largest health…

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Bowtie Briefing for July 24, 2015

Get the latest update on two bills, one impacting physician assistants and the other on how you…

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BCBS Rate Increase Request Not Off-Set by ACA Reimbursements

A July 7 article in the Raleigh News & Observer reported that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of…

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"Death Panels" May Never Die, The Washington Post, 6-23-15 Your Pocket Guide To Obamacare…

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ICD-10: AMA Considers Grace Period To 'Save Docs,' MedPageToday, 6-7-15 Next Season's Flu Shot Is…

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CMS Proposes New Rules for Medicaid MCOs

Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposal that would…

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