According to a report in the Star-Ledger, and online at NJ.com, proposed regulations by the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) would include personal injury protection hospital outpatient department and doctor office-based procedures for the first time on…
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The number of uninsured young adults has dropped significantly, thanks in part to a provision of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law that allows young adults to stay on their parents' health insurance plans, according to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer report.
The president of Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus, N.J., acknowledged Monday that the hospital charges more than its competitors to provide outpatient care to auto accident victims, but said auto insurers only pay a fraction of the charges, according…
CMS has set out to define the differences between entities that can and cannot contact physician offices regarding medical records, documentation and other information, according to an AAPC release.
Pend Oreille Surgery Center in Ponderay, Idaho, has negotiated newly profitable contracts after refusing several offers from Blue Cross of Idaho and Regence Blue Shield and canceling its existing contracts with the insurers, according to a Bonner County Daily Bee…
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Access to healthcare improved somewhat for insured Americans between 2007 and 2010, but cost is still a concern and an obstacle, according to a recent study reported in FOX Business.
The Colorado Attorney General's office will assist the group responsible for setting up a state health insurance exchange as it fights to undo the federal healthcare reform law that created the exchanges, according to a Pueblo Chieftain report.
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee will issue an executive order today creating a health insurance exchange, according to a Providence Journal report.
New auto insurance rules in New Jersey would set a price limit on what hospitals can bill for 2,000 previously unregulated outpatient procedures, according to an NJ.com report.
Missouri insurance officials have delayed spending millions of federal dollars on the computer technology needed to implement a health insurance exchange as mandated under the federal healthcare law, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.