The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased the share of the population with health coverage through a number of strategies, including Medicaid expansion, the enactment of state-run health care exchanges, and penalties for not obtaining coverage. This publication summarizes findings related to health...
Community Health Center of Snohomish County (CHC of Snohomish County), a nonprofit federally qualified health center (FQHC) in Washington state,has adoptedEHR services to increase patient access to affordable care. CHC of Snohomish County operates five dental, seven medical, and two ...
Health care scams come in many forms, but all involve someone either wanting your personal information for identity theft—under the guise of updating your insurance—or attempting to use your insurance to submit fraudulent medical charges. Most versions also include robocalls, texts, or emails from...
Our Health Care lawyers counsel hospitals, health plans, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, physicians' organizations, insurance exchanges and other stakeholders on regulatory compliance, public policy, reimbursement and coverage, transactions, alleged fraud and abuse, governance, data privacy and other mat...
Adverse selection in health insurance markets may reduce social welfare by leading some low-risk consumers to underinsure or too few consumers to purchase coverage, relative to the socially optimal level. I study the social welfare implications of policies that are designed to mitigate these effects...
states can take advantage of Section 1333 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which provides for the establishment of a regulatory framework that allows two or more states to enter into a health care choice compact to facilitate the sale of health insurance coverage across state ...
takes part of a hospital hostage after getting screwed over by the health insurance system. These kinds of hot-button, ordinary-man-pushed-too-far Hollywood movies always traffic in histrionics that undermine their social messages, and this one’s no exception — except for ...
(One wonders how things might have been different if the OTA had been around when the health care insurance exchanges were being built.) But over the years, the OTA had also cast doubt on some conservative ideas—a mortal sin as far as Gingrich and his followers were concerned. For ...
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The largest of these insurers include Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance ("BH Specialty"), Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies ("BHHC"), MedPro Group, Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies ("GUARD") and National Indemnity Company ("NICO Primary"). Other BH Primary insurers include U....