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		<title>Cost-controlled health coverage gaining ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In just three years, a new way of paying for medical care has spread rapidly across Massachusetts, and now more than 1.2 million people are covered by plans that put providers on a budget in an effort to restrain health spending.  http://articles.boston.com/2012-01-30/metro/30676307_1_providers-health-insurance-premiums-employer-sponsored-health-plans]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Tiered&#8217; Insurance Confounds Consumers, Docs In Mass.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON — Sarah Bechta, a wife, mother and physician from Northborough, Mass. sat down at her kitchen table with a folder full of brochures, pages from insurance websites and a hand-drawn spreadsheet to try to find out if a new &#8220;tiered&#8221; health plan would be the cheapest option for her family.  http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2012/January/17/Mass-Tiered-Insurance.aspx?utm_source=instop&#38;utm_medium=email&#38;utm_campaign=012012]]></description>
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		<title>Health Reform, Health Insurance, and Selection: Estimating Selection into Health Insurance Using the Massachusetts Health Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We implement an empirical test for selection into health insurance using changes in coverage induced by the introduction of mandated health insurance in Massachusetts. Our test examines changes in the cost of the newly insured relative to those who were insured prior to the reform. We find that counties with larger increases in insurance coverage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. residents without health insurance to face higher penalty in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON—Massachusetts residents who do not have health insurance will face a higher financial penalty in 2012 under newly finalized rules. http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20120117/NEWS03/120119905?tags=&#124;62&#124;307&#124;74&#124;305&#124;342#]]></description>
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		<title>State works on restoring health care for legal immigrants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though it was not unexpected, state officials don’t yet have a complete plan to deal with a high court ruling that roughly 30,000 legal immigrants were unfairly excluded from a state health care program. “Over the time of this deliberation we’ve understood that there might be a need to adjust the way that things go,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Value-buying Still Possible for Firms Despite Transparency Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employer’s Guide to Self-Insuring Health Benefits   December 2011 &#124; Vol. 19, No.3  The lack of cost transparency stands in the way of health cost control because it makes plan members unable to see prices before services are actually rendered, and harms their ability to budget health spending. Problems include: (1) multiple providers; (2) multiple network-provider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass., feds agree to $26.7B health care extension</title>
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		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/state-law/massachusetts/mass-feds-agree-to-26-7b-health-care-extension/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON &#8212; Massachusetts has struck a multi-billion dollar deal with the federal government that Gov. Deval Patrick says will help the state move forward with plans to overhaul the way it pays for health care coverage. Read more: http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/boston/12006212576055/mass-feds-agree-to-26-7b-health-care-extension/#ixzz1hBB27K32]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts Requires Third Party Administrators To Register</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts has recently finalized regulations requiring third party administrators to register with the Commonwealth as well as file annual reports. This will likely affect many TPAs in Massachusetts because the definition of TPA is broad: Third-party Administrator: A person domiciled inside or outside of the Commonwealth who, on behalf of a Health Insurer or purchaser [...]]]></description>
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		<title>States Move To Implement Health Reform Provisions</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/state-law/california/states-move-to-implement-health-reform-provisions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/state-law/california/states-move-to-implement-health-reform-provisions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.hr.cch.com CCH® BENEFITS — 09/01/11 from Spencer’s Benefits Reports: According to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s State Health Facts, 23 states have established American Health Benefit Exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), have enacted legislation with the intent to establish an Exchange, or have Exchange legislation pending. Massachusetts and Vermont have established [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reasonable Reform Trumps In Massachusetts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.kaiserhealthnews.org  By Geoffrey C. Beckwith   Aug 28, 2011  On July 12, dozens of lawmakers, municipal leaders, community groups and union officials stood together and watched as Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed a new law reforming the way that cities and towns design health insurance plans for their employees. As local governments across the country continue to [...]]]></description>
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