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Like many states, Ohio is hesitating on designing a health insurance exchange, leading exchange supporters to believe the state will run out of time before the Jan. 2013 deadline, according to a Columbus Dispatch report.

Medicare contractors denied payments for some valid services in 2010, according to an audit of improper payment determinations by a government watchdog and an American Medical News report.

CMS will start an immediate recoupment process for demanded overpayments, according to an AAPC report.

The top 1 percent of people under 65 with commercial health insurance account for 25 percent of healthcare costs, according to a report by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.

An Oklahoma proposal to establish a state-run health insurance exchange passed a test vote on Monday with the support of three lawmakers, according to aTulsa World report.

The House and Senate have passed a new payroll tax cut bill that also stopped the Medicare payment cut to physicians, and it will now head to President Barack Obama's desk, where it is expected to be signed, according to…

Starting April 1, only one receiver will see electronic payment for a claim, no matter the number of national provider IDs on file, according to an AAPC report.

Many states are hesitating on the design and implementation of health insurance exchanges as the Supreme Court waits to decide the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law, according to a New York Times report.

The Vermont House has given preliminary approval to a bill that would set up a state-run health insurance exchange, according to a Boston Globe report.

Medical costs for enrollees in health reform's high-risk insurance pools are expected to exceed initial predictions by more than double, according to a Washington Post report.