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A bit of health-insurance news to kick off the week:<\/p>\nA bit of health-insurance news to kick off the week:<\/p>\n
The industry spent roughly $38 million on lobbying<\/strong> last year, up from $31 million in ‘08, the Hill reports<\/a>. No surprise, given what was at stake in Washington. The spending included nearly $19 million from AHIP<\/a> and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and millions more from big insurers including WellPoint, UnitedHealth, Humana, Aetna and Cigna. Here’s a list of the top spenders<\/a>.<\/p>\n UnitedHealth wants Continuum Health Partners<\/a>, a consortium of New York hospitals,<\/strong> to notify the company within 24 hours of a patient’s admission, the New York Times reports<\/a>. If a hospital doesn’t do so, the insurer says it will cut reimbursements by half for treatment of the patient. The hospital says the rate cut is too high a punishment for a simple clerical error; the insurer says it needs to be informed soon after a patient is admitted, in order to improve outcomes for patients and rein in health-care costs.<\/p>\n Photo: iStockphoto<\/em><\/p>\n A bit of health-insurance news to kick off the week: The industry spent roughly $38 million on lobbying last year, up from $31 million in ‘08, the Hill reports. No surprise, given what was at stake in Washington. The spending included nearly $19 million from AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and millions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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