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Patient Protection, Preventive Care, and Pre-existing Conditions
In this week’s Health Insurance Reform Update, we’re sharing new information about three provisions: “patient protection” regulations, new preventive care regulations, and high risk pools (”pre-existing condition insurance plans”). While there’s a lot of information to digest, we’re working hard to make sure you and your clients get the [...]

Did you know health care fraud constitutes nearly 3% of all health care spending, according to the National Health Care Anti-fraud Association? This translates to $69 billion lost to fraud annually, or over $100 million per day. Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies’ anti-fraud investigations resulted in overall savings and recoveries of more than $510 [...]

May 12, 2010
Read this week about what is happening on the federal legislative front of Health Care Reform.
House Hearing on Health Care Pricing Transparency Proposals
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on May 6, 2010 regarding legislative proposals aimed at improving transparency for health insurance consumers. Three separate transparency bills were [...]

No sooner had President Obama signed the last piece of the health insurance reform package on March 30 than he hit the road, traveling to a number of states to sell the public on the new health care law of the land. On their Easter/Passover recess break, many members of Congress were engaged in their [...]

After more than a year of often contentious political debate, historic health insurance reform legislation was passed and signed into law last week. But the ink was not yet dry on the bill before 14 states filed a lawsuit challenging the new law, and everyone else began poring over provisions to determine exactly what it [...]

MARCH 26, 2010
This Week in Health Insurance Reform
Health care reform legislation passed the House this week on a party-line vote. Late Sunday night, House Democrats approved the Senate health care reform package, sending the legislation to President Obama for his signature. On Tuesday, President Obama signed the underlying bill into law, yet the House has [...]

MARCH 19, 2010
This Week in Health Care Reform
This week, President Obama continued traveling outside of Washington to rally support for his health insurance plan. Meanwhile, Democratic leaders increased their efforts to pull together enough votes to push the package through the House of Representatives by week’s end. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) needs to accumulate [...]

Week of March 15, 2010
The White House last week continued to rail against rising health insurance premiums to help build popular support for his health care reform package. But the effort to focus the blame for rising costs on insurers was questioned, in particular, by state insurance experts and economists quoted in a New York [...]

The Week in Health Reform—Federal Legislative Overview
The White House
On March 3, President Obama continued his push for Members of Congress to complete health insurance reform legislation within the upcoming weeks. He delivered a statement to a group of medical professionals in the East Room of the White House, in which he said that he has [...]

MARCH 5, 2010
This Week in Health Insurance Reform
This week, President Barack Obama continued to pressure lawmakers to pass a final health insurance reform bill, calling for its passage through reconciliation, a process which only requires the support of a simple majority. Republicans continued to oppose the President’s proposal , vowing to fight the expedited reconciliation [...]