Coventry Health Care of Nebraska will be the new health plan administrator for a state program that provides health insurance for residents who can’t get affordable coverage because of medical problems, according to a report by The Republic.
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Despite a lack of action by the Illinois General Assembly to move along a bill to create a health insurance exchange, supporters of the exchanges still hope to start implementation in early 2012, according to a Daily Republican report.
The Lake Pend Oreille School District’s new contract for healthcare through the North Idaho Health Network does not cover services from the Pend Oreille Surgery Center in Ponderay, according to a River Journal report.
The Medical Group Management Association has asked HHS to issue an expanded contingency plan for the transition to HIPAA Version 5010 electronic transaction standards, saying that practices are unprepared to make the switch, according to a CMIO report.
Ambulatory Surgery Center of Zeiter Eye in Stockton, Calif., received a notice that its Medicare contracts had been canceled last week, after CMS visited the surgeons' old facility and found it abandoned, according to a Record Net report.
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Enrollment in commercial health insurance continues to drop in Florida, according to a Miami Herald report.
Oregon Commissioners Janet Carlson and Craig Pope offered different views on how state-supported healthcare should be delivered to state residents, according to a Statesman Journal report.
Spending on physician services increased 3.5 percent in the second quarter of 2011, compared to the same quarter in 2010, indicating that spending may be rebounding despite recent studies noting a decline in patient traffic, according to an American Medical…
Physicians had more concerns than patients about sharing access to medical records, according to two studies published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and reported in Cardiology Today.
Around 340,000 Michigan consumers who purchase their own health insurance could receive a total of $89 million in rebates over the next three years, after federal health regulators ruled that Michigan will not be exempt from federal health reform requirements,…