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Maps that show where the highest levels of uninsured live will help them target these areas for education and outreach in order to boost insurance coverage as required by the federal Affordable Care Act.
After lobbying from insurance agents, states move to regulate a key to Obamacare's insurance marketplaces.
Gov. "Butch" Otter and employer groups fought to keep control of their health insurance marketplace -- the only GOP-controlled state to run a state-based exchange -
Einstein Medical Center hopes a program funded by the health law and geared to women with high-risk pregnancies will reduce North Philadelphia's high infant mortality rate.
Christian Hospital's struggle to serve the disadvantaged is not likely to get easier under the Affordable Care Act.
Many policy holders are not aware that the plans, which generally have low premiums and can have high out-of-pocket costs, don't meet the standards set in the health overhaul.
KHN is gathering the data from states that have approved and published premiums for the online marketplaces that will open Oct. 1 under the federal health law.
Penalties will total $227 million, but many hospitals will see their fines go down in October in the second year of the program.
Kaiser Health News' data on hospital readmissions penalties comes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
This chart lists state averages of readmission rates and the number of hospitals in each state that will be penalized.
Four companies to offer 31 health plans on new state exchange at a variety of prices.
The partnerships with the Spanish-language media giant are among the most concrete ways to date that insurers have invested in the marketing of Obamacare, but they also could skirt a key principle of the Affordable Care Act: that it should foster insurer competition and consumer choice.
Mary Agnes Carey speaks with Politico Pro's Jennifer Haberkorn about two House committee meetings on Capitol Hill Thursday where IRS and CMS officials were grilled about implementing a system to verify consumer income under the health law.
These pointers will help you make sense of contradictory headlines about how much insurance could cost you when the Affordable Care Act marketplaces open for enrollment in October.
State insurance officials unveiled proposed prices for health plans to be sold on the exchanges beginning Oct. 1. But those plans, and the prices, have yet to be approved by the federal government and could change.
In response to readers' questions, columnist explains that all policies offered on the online exchanges must cover 10 "essential health benefits," but the plans will be classified according to the proportion of costs that consumers will be responsible for paying.
For the growing campaign to enroll the uninsured in health insurance as part of the monumental health-care overhaul, signing up healthy young adults - the "young invincibles" - is crucial to success.
Enroll America volunteers use census data and telephone surveys to identify people without coverage but finding them can still be challenging.
Consumer advocates praise rates that are more affordable, but others question whether they can be sustained.
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