This Week's Healthcare Online News
Fierce Health Payer
26M people eligible for health exchange tax credits
Apr,19,2013
by+ Dina Overland
A new report from advocacy group Families USA shows that almost 26 million people will be eligible for tax credits, which will help offset the cost of premiums and enable more consumers to buy health insurance through the new online marketplaces, The Hill's Healthwatch reported. That means more business for insurers when the health insurance exchanges go live later this year. "The tax credit subsidies are a game changer," Families USA Executive Director Ron Pollack said during a conference call with reporters. "They will make health coverage affordable for a huge number of uninsured families who would have been priced out of the coverage they need
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ModernHealthcare.com
Fallout for states rejecting Medicaid expansion
April 22, 2013
by:+Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
Rejecting the Medicaid expansion in the federal health care law could have unexpected consequences for states where Republican lawmakers remain steadfastly opposed to what they scorn as "Obamacare."
It could mean exposing businesses to Internal Revenue Service penalties and leaving low-income citizens unable to afford coverage even as legal immigrants get financial aid for their premiums. For the poorest people, it could virtually guarantee that they will remain uninsured and dependent on the emergency room at local hospitals that already face federal cutbacks.
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Med City News
So many apps, so little adoption: Docs say most patients who track data do it the old-fashioned way
Apr,19,2013
By:+Deanna Pogorelc
The good news for mobile health app developers is that physicians seem to be open to the idea of reviewing data that patients have tracked themselves. The bad news is that 30 percent of doctors say they don’t have patients who track, and those that do say most patients do it the old-fashioned way.
Manhattan Research’s annual Taking the Pulse survey, conducted online with nearly 3,000 physicians in the first quarter of the year, delivered some interesting insights. First, 70 percent of surveyed physicians said they had at least one patient sharing health measurement data with them.
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ModernHealthcare.com
Advocates fear long delay for rule on home-care worker pay
Apr,18,2013
by:+Ashok Selvam
Those awaiting the Obama administration's decision on whether to guarantee home-care workers at least the federal minimum wage and overtime pay could be in for a long summer.
The Office of Management and Budget's 90-day window to review a final rule on the matter passed without action on April 15. It has been more than a year since President Barack Obama announced he would work toward ensuring workers in the $84 billion-a-year home-care business would receive minimum wage and overtime protections.
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