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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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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.
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Back Page Briefs 4/98
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Washington state officials have decided they can't rely only on the honor system to keep track of residents' eligibility for insurance subsidies under the Basic Health Plan (BHP) from year to year.
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Welfare reform has had a less disruptive effect on Medicaid coverage than many critics had feared, according to a new report by the General Accounting Office.