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Regardless of the healthcare reform’s long term future, the private exchanges are here to stay. The idea of private health exchanges came at a time when employers were eager to explore new options due to the rising medical costs and the exchanges gave them that new option.
SCOTUS ruled the healthcare reform as being constitutional if seen through the tax law. Even though it is a win for Democrats, to me it looked like the Republicans followed the “lose the war but win the battle” strategy. The way Justice Robert ruled, the tax (penalty) part of the…
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, chances are…. The recent flub by the state of Ohio on the new Medicaid contracts makes one think if this is how the state is performing with its own cost saving initiatives, what will it do with the healthcare…
There are only three possible outcomes from the SC’s ruling. The ACA will be thrown out altogether, the individual mandate will be thrown out but ACA will stay or the ACA will stay in its entirety. Whatever the outcome maybe, the genie is out of the bottle and there is…
Comes January 1st 2012 all physicians, other health care professionals, payers, and clearinghouses that submit HIPAA transactions