Georgia insurance companies will soon have to provide more detailed, customer-friendly explanations if they plan to raise premiums by more than 10 percent, according to a Health Leaders Media report.
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Rhode Island's state health insurance commissioner cut rate increase requests from UnitedHealthcare of New England and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island during the state's annual rate review, according to a Business Insurance report.
California announced Tuesday that the state will decrease premiums by as much as 24 percent for new and existing subscribers of its health program for high-risk patients, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has voted to shelve a measure that would close a loophole in the city's universal healthcare ordinance, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.
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Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, states must establish health insurance exchanges by Jan. 2014 or invite the federal government to step in and take over implementation. The exchanges, which would function as a marketplace for individuals and…
Only 11 percent of respondents significantly agreed that increased use of IT in customer service has improved the level of service from insurance companies in the past five years, according to data from Accenture's survey "The 7 Things Your Health…
CMS has determined that ICD-9-CM codes for 786.50 Chest pain, unspecified and 786.51 Precordial pain "flow from the existing narrative for conditions for which a [PT test] is reasonable and necessary," according to an AAPC report.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted a video on YouTube featuring footage from its April ICD-10 Code-a-Thon, according to an AAPC report.
A majority of medical groups have not completed critical software upgrades in preparation for the transition to HIPAA Version 5010 electronic transactions standards, according to an MGMA release.