Sentences with phrase «on health insurance reforms»

«Coverage of those services can't be changed without a change to the statute» that created the health law, said Dania Palanker, an assistant research professor at Georgetown University's Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

Researchers at the Urban Institute and Georgetown University's Center on Health Insurance Reforms interviewed a range of insurers participating in ACA marketplaces in 28 states and the District of Columbia to determine their strategies for the 2018 and 2019 plan years.

«When we interviewed the insurers for our report, it was in late 2017, so we were not able to fully capture how insurers currently would feel about these market stabilization proposals that are in the news this week,» said Sabrina Corlette, research professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute and one of the authors of the study.

Not exact matches

The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

On prudential grounds I find it hard to share R.R. Reno's hope («Reforming the Health - Care Reform,» June / July 2010) that Obamacare might lead to a strengthened private insurance sector.

Pension plan reform, employees paying more in health insurance, and raises are all issues that should be on the table, and are.

A breakthrough on the health care reform bill expected to be voted on today came after an amendment that adds $ 8 billion to the measure to help cover insurance costs for people with pre-existing conditions.

HELENA — As Sen. Max Baucus has taken the lead on health - reform legislation in the U.S. Senate, he's also become a leader in something else: Campaign money received from health - and insurance - industry interests.

Retiree Health Insurance — The Executive Budget includes a number of reforms that will provide needed long - term savings, including tiered premium shares based on years of service and limited reimbursement of Medicare premiums.

The state's Health Care Reform Act, for example, imposes almost $ 5 billion a year in taxes on health insurance that exist in no other Health Care Reform Act, for example, imposes almost $ 5 billion a year in taxes on health insurance that exist in no other health insurance that exist in no other state.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

The settlement included a wage increase on par with the rising cost of living, but in exchange, there was reform to the employees» active health insurance, retiree health insurance, paid time - off benefit package and employee work hours.

Israel specifically called out Rep. Michael Grimm (NY - 13) suggesting it was hypocritical for him to bote «yes» on repealing the reform law while also accepting the government - provided health insurance plan afforded all members of Congress.

Last year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that enacting medical malpractice reform would, on average, reduce malpractice insurance costs by 10 percent nationwide, and probably more in New York, resulting in a more than $ 300 million of overall reduction in health care spending in our state budget.

President Obama's reforms would not create a body on anything like the size of the NHS, but it would bring 40 million Americans without private health insurance into the fold, at the cost of $ 1 trillion.

At 7:30 p.m., Rep. Nita Lowey appears on «The Morning Show with Steve & Jeff» to discuss tax reform and the Children's Health Insurance Program, WRCR, AM 1700.

«Today we have the opportunity to complete the great unfinished business of our society and pass health insurance reform for all Americans as a right, not a privilege,» Pelosi said before the House approved the bill, which first passed the Senate on Christmas Eve.

Former New Jersey Gov. James Florio accomplished a great deal during his one term in office from 1990 to 1994, including auto insurance reform, welfare reform, greater state aid to education and health care, a cleaner environment and a ban on assault weapons.

The wider task of comprehensive social security reform would inevitably require a high - level body to review and advise on the harmonization of various initiatives and deductions from workers» payrolls in the name of welfare, such as pension contributions, national housing fund, national health insurance etc

The Indigent Care Pool (ICP) was created under the 1996 Health Care Reform Act as a means of reimbursing hospitals for care provided to patients without health insurance, using funds raised by the state's taxes on health insurance policies along with federaHealth Care Reform Act as a means of reimbursing hospitals for care provided to patients without health insurance, using funds raised by the state's taxes on health insurance policies along with federahealth insurance, using funds raised by the state's taxes on health insurance policies along with federahealth insurance policies along with federal aid.

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While the research didn't show huge jumps in any particular area of health, care, or access, the overall pattern is consistent with a positive impact from increased health insurance and other reforms, compared with states that didn't embark on major reform efforts.

In 2006, Massachusetts was on the same brink that the entire nation is on today: the brink of expanding health insurance to cover far more people than before, through government - driven, market - based reform.

Besides increasing the proportion of people in the USA covered by medical insurance once the ACA is fully implemented, the authors show that structural and financing reforms introduced by the Act will help healthcare in the USA to transition from a «sick care system,» largely focused on treatment of illness, to a system that includes disease prevention, health promotion, early detection, and public health as integral components.

«The private sector is generally regarded as the engine of innovation in the United States, but on the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, health care's 2 largest public health insurance programs are playing a much larger role in innovation in payment and delivery reform and reshaping the delivery of care for the future.»

The buy - insurance - or - pay policy is closely modeled on the one that took effect in Massachusetts in 2006 as part of the states health - care reform.

I'm sure you know by now about the ACA (Affordable Care Act — aka: «Obamacare») is the new health care reform that is designed to ensure that everyone has health insurance... but it also imposes tax penalties on those that do not.

It would have been much better to focus reform on the high cost of health care than requiring everyone to indemnify against a risk for which they may not deem insurance necessary.

This is especially important in the context of evaluating more comprehensive tax reform proposals that contemplate taxing income sources that are not included in narrower measures (e.g., proposals to tax some or all employer contributions to health insurance or to reduce the amount of tax - free income earned within qualified retirement plans by placing tighter limits on contributions).

Menlo Park, CA Washington DC About Blog The Kaiser Family Foundation website provides in - depth information on key health policy issues including Medicaid, Medicare, health reform, global health, HIV / AIDS, health insurance, the uninsured and much more.

After much speculation and a summer spent debating health insurance reform, the Senate is finally ready to begin work on its climate bill.

Following a number of reforms in 2006 on the Slovak health care insurance market, Achmea decided to bring a claim before an ISDS tribunal on the basis of the Dutch — Slovak Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT).

Co-hosts J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome Dr. David Orentlicher, professor and co-director of the Center for Law and Health at Indiana University Schools of Law and Medicine and Attorney Joel L. Michaels, the partner - in - charge of the Health Law Department in McDermott Will & Emery LLP's Washington, D.C. office, to discuss legal issues surrounding healthcare reform, its impact on businesses, hospitals, and individuals and the role of federal government in the marketplace of health care insuHealth at Indiana University Schools of Law and Medicine and Attorney Joel L. Michaels, the partner - in - charge of the Health Law Department in McDermott Will & Emery LLP's Washington, D.C. office, to discuss legal issues surrounding healthcare reform, its impact on businesses, hospitals, and individuals and the role of federal government in the marketplace of health care insuHealth Law Department in McDermott Will & Emery LLP's Washington, D.C. office, to discuss legal issues surrounding healthcare reform, its impact on businesses, hospitals, and individuals and the role of federal government in the marketplace of health care insuhealth care insurance.

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Although national health care reform is making preexisting conditions a thing of the past, Tennessee does not guarantee insurance on the individual market nor does the state have market rate restrictions.

As online referral services, like NetQuote, continue to reduce overhead costs, health care reform begins to provide valuable tax credits, and health insurance companies pivot to a customer base that's becoming more reliant on individual health insurance, finding affordable health insurance in Pennsylvania is becoming more accessible to more people, despite overall health care costs that continue to spiral upward.

Long before federal health care reform was enacted, Idaho was one of only a handful of states to guarantee access to health insurance on the individual market for all eligible individuals on a continuous basis.

Meanwhile, federal health care reform has expanded access to Medicaid, while also creating subsidies that may make the cost of health insurance on the individual market more affordable.

This is a problem in the lists provided: there can be no justification for putting off work on «Strengthening preventive care with particular focus on Indigenous health» until after «Ensuring the sustainability and affordability of private health insurance» or «Aged care reform».

It wasn't just that insurance laws were changed and health systems were reformed to enable women, both Aboriginal and Non - Indigenous women, to birth on country.

«More than 60 organizations, representing millions of women and families across the country have joined together to tell Congress that we want meaningful health care reform that gives everyone access to affordable, comprehensive health insurance without restrictions on women's health care,» said PPFA President Cecile Richards.

With concern escalating across the country over proposed restrictions on private health insurance coverage of abortion included in the health care reform bill passed by the House last week, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards joined Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY) and other women leaders in denouncing this anti-women's health amendment passed by the House.

Former AMA President Dr Brian Owler talks about the issues that emerged during the» roundtable» on hospitals that he chaired at the Labor national health summit, including whole of hospital reform, access to subacute services and the role and challenges for private health insurance.

Most egregiously, this has led to the axing of primary health care research, development and evaluation with the loss of the PHCRED Strategy and BEACH; mental health reforms floundering between Primary Health Networks and the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and efforts to Close the Gap on Indigenous disadvantage making little progress due to significant budget cuts and program delivery increasingly removed from Indigenous organisahealth care research, development and evaluation with the loss of the PHCRED Strategy and BEACH; mental health reforms floundering between Primary Health Networks and the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and efforts to Close the Gap on Indigenous disadvantage making little progress due to significant budget cuts and program delivery increasingly removed from Indigenous organisahealth reforms floundering between Primary Health Networks and the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and efforts to Close the Gap on Indigenous disadvantage making little progress due to significant budget cuts and program delivery increasingly removed from Indigenous organisaHealth Networks and the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and efforts to Close the Gap on Indigenous disadvantage making little progress due to significant budget cuts and program delivery increasingly removed from Indigenous organisations.

Menlo Park, CA Washington DC About Blog The Kaiser Family Foundation website provides in - depth information on key health policy issues including Medicaid, Medicare, health reform, global health, HIV / AIDS, health insurance, the uninsured and much more.

Unquestionably, 2017 is a year of transition, and we remain focused on a range of legislative and regulatory issues from tax reform and housing finance reform to health care and flood insurance.

It's great to see such progress, but it won't take our focus on these and other important issues, including federal disaster insurance, health care reform, and new appraisal rules.