Gov. Asa Hutchinson removed the chairman and one other state board member. The board establishes the health insurance exchanges for small-business employees and individual consumers, according to Ledger-Enquirer.
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Capital One acquired GE Capital's healthcare financial service lending business in a deal closed today.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported healthcare consumers received more than $2.4 billion in premium rebates since 2011, according to RevCycle Intelligence.
Mississippi state officials say they will cover the costs of bariatric surgery for Medicaid beneficiaries, according to Healthcare DIVE.
With the closing of co-op Health Republic, almost 200,000 New York residents' policies will expire, according to USA Today.
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A New Jersey Assembly committee advanced a bill mandating physicians and hospitals to disclose in advance which of their services are not covered by a patient’s insurance network, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal.
While the number of uninsured Dane County residents has dropped by almost 40 percent in the last two years, a large number of residents still lack health insurance, according to Wisconsin State Journal.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued clarifications for the measures the agency is taking to resolve isolated errors regarding ICD-10, according to EHR Intelligence.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed a rule mandating minimum network standards for health plans sold through the federal exchange in 2017, according to California Healthline.
Health insurers owe Arkansas consumers and businesses more than $7.1 million as the payers collected too much in premiums last year than what they spent on medical care, according to the Washington Times.