Will Obamacare’s primary care Medicaid payment boost mean anything to doctors?

It’s a pretty safe bet that you’d be happy if someone agreed to pay you more to do the same thing you’ve already been doing.So, surely primary care doctors can appreciate one provision of the federal health reform law that bumps Medicaid rates for primary care up to the same level as Medicare rates, right? [...]

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Insurance exchanges: Does it matter if they’re designed by states or the feds?

Read about a source of confusion regarding health insurance exchanges: What’s the difference between an exchange set up by a state vs. one from the federal government?

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How “Just Making Sure” And “Doing What It Takes” Cost Tens Of Billions Of Dollars

The past few weeks have been a little intense for our family.Our brilliant, beautiful, athletic 19-year-old daughter found a lump where there certainly shouldn’t have been one and, naturally, promptly freaked out.She’s the scientific type, so we started with a little literature research, and found that for women her age, 99% of those lumps are [...]

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