Eighteen percent of Ohio adults have no health insurance, up from 12 percent who said they were uninsured in a similar poll five years ago, according to a report by The Republic.
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The California Senate Appropriations Committee passed a measure 6-3 that would give the state's insurance commissioner the authority to modify or reject "excessive" health insurance rate increases, according to an Insurance News Net report.
The federal health reform law will drastically cut the number of uninsured Wisconsin residents by 2016 while driving up premiums for some consumers, according to a Forbes report.
California should be able to regulate health insurance premiums by giving the Department of Insurance the authority to modify or reject proposed increases, according to an L.A. Times editorial report.
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Nearly one of every 10 mid-sized or large employers plans to stop offering health coverage to employees once federal health insurance exchanges begin in 2014, according to a survey from benefits consultant Towers Watson.
Almost 40 cities in Idaho have agreed to consider a plan to lower health insurance costs by becoming self-insured, according to a Magic Valley report.
Debridement is the ICD-9-CM subcategory that causes the most confusion among coders, based on a study published in the summer issue of Perspectives in Health Information Management.
America's Health Insurance Plans spent $2.2 million on federal lobbying from April to June of 2011, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Pennsylvania has scrapped plans to limit enrollment in its federally funded health insurance program for uninsured people with pre-existing medical conditions, according to a Philly Burbs report.