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Health Change Bulletin
| April 15,
2010
| Volume Two
Issue Eighteen
Complimentary Publication from Health Policy Publishing
LLC
www.HealthChangeBulletin.com
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What steps should you take to comply with new health reform
rules effective September?
Join Chantel Sheaks of Buck Consultants, Fred Karutz
of Silverlink Communications, and Dave Tuomala of Ingenix
Consulting to get answers to critical questions on complying
with the reform provisions that become effective this fall.
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Tuesday, April 20,
1:00 pm – 2:30 PM Eastern Time
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What steps should health plans and employers take related to
the removal of annual and lifetime limits?
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Which insurance products will need to include first-dollar
coverage for preventive care this year, and which ones will
be grandfathered?
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How will expanding adult-dependent coverage become an
administrative win for health plans?
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now to explain changes to enrollees/patients?
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 uccessful
implementation of national health reform depends critically on Medicaid,
yet state governments and primary care services are already under
pressure. The good news is that there is a practical road map that would
enable many states to realize significant savings while ensuring that
underserved populations can readily access much better quality care,"
Simon Stevens, Executive Vice President, UnitedHealth Group, and
Chairman of the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform & Modernization |
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Breyer: Health Care Law Could Provide New Work For High Court
Brent Kendall, Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2010
Health Care Reform – What Employers Need to Know Now
Mary L. Komornicka, Mondaq, April 15, 2010
UnitedHealth Group Identifies Potential Federal and State Savings by
Modernizing Medicaid
Business Wire, April 15, 2010
A Doctor's IT Prescription
Joe Cantlupe, Healthleaders Media, April 15, 2010
Judge to Speed Federal Health Care Challenge
Associated Press, April 14, 2010
Georgia is First
Known State to Opt Out of High-Risk Pools
Debra Beaulieu, Fiercehealthcare, April 13, 2010
A Summary of Health Reform Provisions Affecting Health Care
Providers
Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Lexology, April 12, 2010
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Down to the Wire Again With Medicare Payment Cuts for Doctors
James A. White, Wall Street Journal Health Blog, April 13, 2010
CMS And Health Reform: A Health Affairs Blog Roundtable
Chris Fleming, Health Affairs Blog , April 13, 2010
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AT&T, Verizon ‘Hopeful’ Health Bill Has Net Benefits
Wall Street Journal Health Blog,
http://twitter.com/WSJHealthBlog,
April 15, 2010
AMA President J. James Rohack, MD, says we need to make federal health
programs work better.
American Medical Association,
http://twitter.com/AmerMedicalAssn,
April 15, 2010
Check out these stories from Texas on impact of HC bill.
Senator John Cornyn,
http://twitter.com/JohnCornyn,
April 13, 2010
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Closing The Loopholes on Health Insurance Premiums
FoxBusinessNetwork, April 15, 2010
Bill Moyers Journal | Wendell Potter on the Health Care Bill
PBS, April 13, 2010
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