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States struggle with enrollment data, outreach to minority populations

News outlets report on state health exchange developments in Colorado, Maryland, California and Minnesota.

30 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 29, 2013

Today's headlines include previews of a Capitol Hill hearing that will feature Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Serivces Administrator Marilyn Tavenner.

29 Oct 2013

Houston Methodist physicians provide tips for training, protecting the entire body

For avid runners, training for the next marathon never stops. While it's important to focus on running faster or farther, Houston Methodist physicians encourage runners to expand their training regimen and are providing the following tips for training and protecting the entire body.

29 Oct 2013

States report Medicaid surge as result of health law rollout

Several media outlets examine how some states are signing up tens of thousands of new Medicaid enrollees in the first month of the health law's rollout, while enrolling fewer people in private insurance policies. In addition, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett touts his alternative to Medicaid expansion using private insurance.

29 Oct 2013

IRS offers preliminary glimpse of how many people were able to use Healthcare.gov

According to the Internal Revenue Service, the federal government has delivered 330,000 premium subsidy calculations to people who have gotten far enough to find out whether they qualify for health insurance subsidies. Meanwhile, CNN looks deeper into some of the numbers currently being quoted.

29 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 28, 2013

Today's headlines include coverage of the health law's federal online insurance marketplace -- healthcare.gov -- and its continuing challenges, troubles and the plans to get it fixed.

28 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 25, 2013

Today's headlines include reports and analyses of yesterday's Capitol Hill hearing, which featured website contractors talking about the troubled rollout of healthcare.gov.

25 Oct 2013

New strategy could lead researchers to rapidly detect nutritional deficiencies

Johns Hopkins researchers have demonstrated that levels of certain proteins in the bloodstream may be used to estimate levels of essential vitamins and minerals without directly testing for each nutritional factor.

25 Oct 2013

Adcare Health Systems prices underwritten public offering of Series A Preferred Stock

AdCare Health Systems, Inc. the "Company") announced today that it has priced a "best efforts" underwritten public offering of its 10.875% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Series A Preferred Stock") at a public offering price of $25.00 per share.

24 Oct 2013

Viewpoints: 'Elementary errors' in insurance exchange; problems could lead insurance pool imbalance; recalcitrant govs could have made Obamacare launch better

Clearly, the government picked the wrong people to manage this project and it was a terrible decision to fragment it among so many contractors. Anyone who's ever been involved in creating a new computer application knows that you don't just assemble the thing and then see if it works. You're supposed to test the components, obsessively, along the way (Andrew Rosenthal, 10/22).

24 Oct 2013

Patient assistance programs help breast cancer patients to learn more about adjuvant therapy

Patient assistance programs can help breast cancer patients meet a variety of needs that can interfere with getting recommended adjuvant therapies such as radiation, chemotherapy, and hormonal treatments, according to a study published recently in the online edition of the Journal of Oncology Practice.

24 Oct 2013

Vows to fix insurance website, but no details offered

The Obama administration has been tight-lipped about the cause of the website problems, who has signed on to fix them and what their timetable might be. News outlets report on ideas advanced by technology experts and explore the practical and political ramifications of delayed enrollment.

23 Oct 2013

Judge expected to rule on federal exchange subsidies today

A District of Columbia federal judge says he'll rule Tuesday on a lawsuit over whether Americans enrolling in federally run exchanges as part of the health care law can collect insurance subsidies after he directed pointed questions to the Obama administration in a three-hour hearing Monday.

23 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 22, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about the Obama administration's plans to address the problems with healthcare.gov.

22 Oct 2013

President says website problems are 'unacceptable"; urges insurance shoppers to keep trying

President Obama said Monday that problems with the new health care website are unacceptable, but argued that the law overall will benefit millions of Americans. While Healthcare.gov "hasn't worked as as smooth as it was supposed to have worked," Obama said in a White House speech that thousands of once-uninsured Americans have signed up for coverage.

22 Oct 2013

'Tech Surge' mounted to fix healthcare.gov

The Obama administration promised Sunday to enlist experts both inside and outside the government to solve the problems that have crippled healthcare.gov and caused consumers frustration as they attempt to shop for coverage. But some federal contractors worry the system may be weeks away from operating smoothly.

22 Oct 2013

GOP leaders want answers to questions about website difficulties

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is among the people some congressional Republicans want to testify about what some have termed the health exchanges' "failure to launch."

22 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 21, 2013

Today's headlines include the latest reports about how the Obama administration plans to make the necessary fixes in the health law's online insurance marketplace.

21 Oct 2013

AP: Obama administration says almost 500,000 have applied for health insurance

Administration officials say about 476,000 health insurance applications have been filed through federal and state exchanges, the most detailed measure yet of the problem-plagued rollout of President Barack Obama's signature legislation.

21 Oct 2013

Medicaid 'coverage gap' causing anxiety in non-expansion states, especially in the south

In states that decide not to expand Medicaid under the health law, more than 5 million people may be left without coverage. Oregon's expansion has already lowered the number of people there without coverage. Exchange issues are also examined in Maryland, Florida, Ohio and Alabama.

19 Oct 2013

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States struggle with enrollment data, outreach to minority populations

First Edition: October 29, 2013

Houston Methodist physicians provide tips for training, protecting the entire body

States report Medicaid surge as result of health law rollout

IRS offers preliminary glimpse of how many people were able to use Healthcare.gov

First Edition: October 28, 2013

First Edition: October 25, 2013

New strategy could lead researchers to rapidly detect nutritional deficiencies

Adcare Health Systems prices underwritten public offering of Series A Preferred Stock

Viewpoints: 'Elementary errors' in insurance exchange; problems could lead insurance pool imbalance; recalcitrant govs could have made Obamacare launch better

Patient assistance programs help breast cancer patients to learn more about adjuvant therapy

Vows to fix insurance website, but no details offered

Judge expected to rule on federal exchange subsidies today

First Edition: October 22, 2013

President says website problems are 'unacceptable"; urges insurance shoppers to keep trying

'Tech Surge' mounted to fix healthcare.gov

GOP leaders want answers to questions about website difficulties

First Edition: October 21, 2013

AP: Obama administration says almost 500,000 have applied for health insurance

Medicaid 'coverage gap' causing anxiety in non-expansion states, especially in the south

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