Achieving Mental Health Parity: Slow Going Even In 鈥楶ace Car鈥 State
California regulators have tried harder than most to make mental health parity laws work but it鈥檚 been tough to enforce the rules and gain the cooperation of insurers.
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Competition Improves Obamacare Choices In Rural Northern California
Consumers will have a choice of some plans that allow them to cross state lines for care, and every county will have at least three insurance companies offering plans on Covered California.
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Hospital Deductibles Are For Admitted Patients Only
KHN consumer columnist Michelle Andrews also answers reader questions about how insurance-provider networks function and parents鈥 responsibility to provide coverage for children who are not yet 26.
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Half Of Nation鈥檚 Hospitals Fail Again To Escape Medicare鈥檚 Readmission Penalties
The fines, in their fourth year, are assessed on hospitals that have patients frequently return and will cost nearly 2,600 hospitals $420 million in total.
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California Survey: Newly Insured Satisfied With Coverage, More Financially Secure
Formerly uninsured California residents no longer rank paying for health care as their primary financial concern. But some still see cost and access to care as a problem.
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Covered California Reports Modest Rate Increases, Regional Variation
Premiums for the state鈥檚 1.3 million people in the state's Obamacare marketplace will rise an average 4 percent, with average increases as low as 1.8 percent in Los Angeles and as high as 13 percent in Santa Cruz.
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Health Law Experiment Failed To Show Savings
An ambitious demonstration to transform clinics into 鈥渕edical homes鈥 treating patients in the community instead of the hospital didn鈥檛 save money. Some blame the test, not the idea.
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HHS Pushes States To Negotiate Lower Obamacare Rates
Healthcare.gov CEO Kevin Counihan is urging state insurance commissioners to look carefully at proposed rate hikes for insurance premiums in 2016.
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Despite Obamacare Promise, Transgender People Have Trouble Getting Some Care
Advocates say that enrollees get turned down for coverage of some services that are tied to gender.
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Feds Say 7.5M Paid An Average Penalty Of $200 For Not Having Health Insurance
New data also break down billions in subsidy payments.
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Small Business Health Insurance Exchanges Are Off To A Rocky Start
Only 10,700 employers nationwide have enrolled their workers in coverage through the Small Business Health Options Program, or SHOP exchanges.
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Birth Control Coverage Saves Women Significant Money
The health law requires insurers to cover most prescription contraceptives with no additional out-of-pocket costs, which may spur some women to use more effective methods.
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Implementation Of Obamacare Remains A Work In Progress
With the Supreme Court decision, it appears the Affordable Care Act will stand, but that doesn't mean the law's troubles are over. NPR's Renee Montagne talks to KHN's Julie Rovner.
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After Court Victory, Obama Asks GOP To Work With Him To Improve Health Care
In a visit to Nashville, Tenn., the president calls for health law critics to drop their opposition and begin the work of improving the law and health care delivery.
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Charlotte Broker Gets Federal Insurance Subsidies For Hundreds Of Homeless People, Raising Legal, Ethical Questions
He says they鈥檙e better off having some insurance coverage, even if they have high deductibles. But advocates say they lose access to free clinics and can鈥檛 afford to use their coverage because of the deductibles.
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Burwell Says There Is Still 鈥榃ork To Do鈥 On Health Law
After Supreme Court鈥檚 ruling, the HHS secretary says the administration faces challenges to enroll more people in marketplace plans and expand Medicaid.
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Obamacare鈥檚 Next 5 Hurdles to Clear
In its first five years, the Affordable Care Act has survived technical meltdowns, a presidential election, two Supreme Court challenges -- including one resolved Thursday -- and dozens of repeal efforts in Congress. But its long-term future still isn鈥檛 ensured. Here are five of the biggest hurdles left for the law.
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High Court Upholds Health Law Subsidies
The 6-3 ruling stopped a challenge that would have erased subsidies in at least 34 states for individuals and families buying insurance through the federal government鈥檚 online marketplace.
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KHN Video Analysis
Why Did The Supreme Court Uphold The Health Law鈥檚 Subsidies?
The Supreme Court Thursday upheld a key part of the 2010 health law 鈥 tax subsidies for people who buy health insurance on marketplaces run by the federal government. KHN鈥檚 Mary Agnes Carey discusses the decision with Stuart Taylor Jr., of the Brookings Institution, and KHN鈥檚 Julie Appleby.
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Talking The Talk: Swift Responses To The Supreme Court鈥檚 King V. Burwell Decision
Lawmakers and policy experts offered a range of views on the high court鈥檚 long-awaited decision.