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In Stark Contrast To ACA Plans, Premiums For Job-Based Coverage Show Modest Rise

(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News) Family health insurance premiums rose an average 3 percent this year for people

(By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News) It does not take a hurricane to put nursing home residents at risk

(By Leo Vartorella for Becker’s Hospital Review) The ACA repeal bill proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Bill

(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review) Pennsylvania is temporarily defaulting on $1.2 billion owed to eight state-contracted managed care

(By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review) From reimbursement landscape challenges to dwindling patient volumes, many factors lead hospitals and

(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) Another hurricane, another health care horror story. At least that’s how it looked when eight patients

(By Melissa Bailey for Kaiser Health News) Angela Cooper arrived home from work to discover her daughter’s temperature had spiked

(By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review) Ateev Mehrotra, MD, an associate professor of healthcare policy and medicine at Harvard

In a survey by HealthMine of 500 Medicare health consumers, found that 57 percent of members aged 65 plus said

(By Pauline Bartolone for California Health Line produced by Kaiser Health News) A California bill headed to the governor’s desk may be