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New California health insurance rates unveiled
Amid anxiety over rising costs from the federal healthcare law, California received better-than-expected insurance rates for a new state-run marketplace, but many consumers still won't be spared from sharply higher premiums. Three years after...
Tags: Molina Healthcare Incorporated, Health Insurance Cost, Healthcare Provider, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice
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UnitedHealth, Aetna and Cigna opt out of California insurance exchange
Some prominent health insurers, including industry giant UnitedHealth Group Inc., are not participating in California's new state-run health insurance market, possibly limiting the number of choices for millions of consumers. UnitedHealth, the nation'...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Aetna Inc., Healthcare Provider, Economy, Business and Finance, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Supreme Court refuses to hear Planned Parenthood cases
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court dealt a setback Tuesday to the campaign of abortion opponents to “defund” Planned Parenthood. Without comment, the justices turned away Indiana’s defense of a 2011 law that would ban all Medicaid funds...
Tags: Trials, Planned Parenthood, Hospitals and Clinics, Crime, Law and Justice, Family Planning
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Cedars-Sinai stands out for steep pricing
When Medicare disclosed average charges from thousands of U.S. hospitals for 100 common procedures last week, only one hospital was near the top in every category: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Be it a cardiac stent, a hip replacement or a...
Tags: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Medical Procedures and Tests, Mayo Clinic, Healthcare Provider, Hospitals and Clinics
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Hospitals' Prices Vary Widely For Same Procedures
The Hartford CourantThe price of major joint-replacement surgery, without serious complications, is nearly three times more at Greenwich Hospital than at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington. It's $72,393 in Greenwich and $23,063 in Torrington, on average. At...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Insurance Cost, Economy, Business and Finance, Stamford, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Letters to the editor: I-4, traffic cams, and Medicaid
Putting more money into Interstate 4 is a gigantic waste. We went up to Road Atlanta last year to see the races, and I noticed there weren't more than 15 cars using the toll lanes at 5 p.m. rush hour on a Friday. On the way back home on Sunday morning,...Tags: Business, Poverty, Robin Williams, Ocoee, Florida's Turnpike
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Debate Over Southbury Training School Turns To On-Campus Services
Arthur Roberts and Jenna Herbst have taken different paths to reach a level of comfort. Some would say that Roberts, 67, and Herbst, 37, represent the past and the future of the way people with developmental disabilities are supported and treated in...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Trials, Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals, Bridgeport Bluefish
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Four More Charged In Medicaid Fraud Case
The Hartford CourantFour people were arrested this week as the result of an investigation into Medicaid fraud that has already produced four arrests and one jail sentence for a former physician. The four allegedly plotted with former Plainville physician Richard Luzietti...Tags: Prisons, Lawyers, East Hartford, Police Arrests, Prescription Drugs
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Illinois leaders must make unpopular decisions
Thanks to Julie Hamos, head of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, for dealing forthrightly with the state's runaway Medicaid costs that now consume about 20 percent of state spending. According to an analysis released last year...Tags: Health Insurance, Government Health Care
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'Dual-eligibles' (Medicare/Medicaid) can join pilot program in Feb. 2014
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that Virginia will partner with CMS to test a new model for providing Medicare-Medicaid enrollees with a more coordinated, person-centered care experience. There are approximately...
Tags: Mental Health, Health Insurance, Medicare, Government Health Care
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John Morgan talks Casey Anthony, Tim Tebow
Staff writerIn local public-affairs programming this weekend: Prominent Orlando attorney John Morgan and his wife, Ultima, are Lauren Rowe's guests on "Flashpoint" at 8 a.m. Sunday on WKMG-Channel 6. They discuss everything from politics and Casey Anthony to...Tags: U.S. Senate, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Tim Tebow, Amusement and Theme Parks, Health Treatments
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