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Many employees in ERISA plans are afraid to complain, Oklahoma insurance chief says
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Each month, this page features selected short items about state health-care policy digested from newspapers around the country.
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In an effort to understand how the sale of a major non-profit hospital to a for-profit health system impacts the community it serves before the sale takes place, the California attorney general's office turned to a prominent outside consulting firm for help.
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The HealthCare Foundation, created by the conversion of Blue Cross of California from a non-profit health plan to a for-profit corporation, announced that it authorized $35 million in programs and grants in its first year as a new philanthropy.
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Six consumer advocacy groups have identified several state plans under the State Children's Insurance Program (CHIP) that provide good solutions to cost-sharing, crowd-out and other thorny implementation problems states face.
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In a flurry of activity, the Health Care Financing Administration has approved five state children's insurance programs since late March.
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Dental care, once the ignored stepchild of publicly-funded health insurance programs, has become a fundamental element of many plans submitted by states seeking to take advantage of new federal Title 21 funding for Child Health Insurance Programs.
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Clip File April 1998
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Warning that new legislation poses a threat to patient privacy, Wisconsin physicians are mounting a last-ditch campaign to kill legislation that would enable the state to collect financial and claims data directly from physicians' offices.
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In an effort to make HMOs more accountable to the public, the Maryland legislature has unanimously approved a compromise bill that allows the state to censure HMO medical directors for inappropriately denying health-care coverage.