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	<title>:: MedHOK HealthCare Solutions, LLC ::</title>
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		<title>Medicare Bonus Program Under Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two major developments on the Medicare Advantage (MA) finance front over the past week or so.
On one hand, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) actuary is estimating that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) MA plan premium reductions will save $68 billion through 2016. (The 10-year estimate of savings when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final 2012 MA Rates</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CMS’ final Call Letter for 2013 plan coverage calls for average increases of 3.07 percent for Part C and Part D. This is up from last year’s 0.4 percent average increase.  Overall, this is good news for plans in the MA program, especially given ongoing reductions in benchmarks due to PPACA.
However, some large metro areas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Fallout</title>
		<link>http://www.medhok.com/healthcare-reform/supreme-court-fallout.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama’s comments that the Supreme Court would not overturn PPACA drew harsh rebukes from many and forced the White House to backtrack. 
Obama stated that the Court would not take an &#8220;unprecedented, extraordinary step&#8221; by overturning the law and argued it would be “judicial activism.”  Critics accused him of bullying the Court and said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPACA Rebates would Have Been Sizable in 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.medhok.com/ppaca/ppaca-rebates-would-have-been-sizable-in-2010.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.medhok.com/ppaca/ppaca-rebates-would-have-been-sizable-in-2010.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[MLR]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Commonwealth Fund released a study recently that determines that consumers would have received rebates of nearly $2 billion if PPACA’s minimum medical loss ratio (MLR) provision were in force for 2010.
The minimum MLR requirement, which kicks in for the 2011 calendar year, calls for rebates back to consumers if plans’ individual and small group MLRs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Restructuring</title>
		<link>http://www.medhok.com/healthcare-reform/medicare-restructuring.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While major changes to Medicare are unlikely to occur this election year, more and more proposals are coming out that recognize that Medicare’s current benefit design is not sustainable.
PPACA included about $500 billion in Medicare savings over 10 years, including cutting Medicare Advantage plans and slashing payments to hospitals and providers. It also requires higher-income [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPACA Supreme Court Review &#8211; The Last Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court arguments on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) concluded Wednesday. With the first two days dedicated to arguments on whether the case can be heard and on the constitutionality of the individual mandate, Wednesday was devoted to the Medicaid expansion’s constitutionality and whether PPACA should be struck down in whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPACA Supreme Court Review &#8211; Day Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Second Day of Supreme Court review of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) lived up to the promise of being controversial. Each side laid out their case as to why they believe or don’t believe the individual mandate is constitutional.
As expected, it is shaping up to be where Justices Roberts and Kennedy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPACA Supreme Court Review &#8211; The First Day</title>
		<link>http://www.medhok.com/healthcare-reform/ppaca-supreme-court-review-the-first-day.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.medhok.com/healthcare-reform/ppaca-supreme-court-review-the-first-day.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the first day (Monday, March 26) of the Supreme Court review of the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act (PPACA), justices seemed inclined to move the case forward and hear the merits. As we wrote last week, one question was whether the fact that the individual insurance mandate (in the form of a federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPACA: Reflecting on Two Years</title>
		<link>http://www.medhok.com/healthcare-reform/ppaca-reflecting-on-two-years.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.medhok.com/healthcare-reform/ppaca-reflecting-on-two-years.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exchange Marketplace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act (PPACA or health reform) turns two today and we couldn’t help but reflect on the activities of the last 24 months. With the Supreme Court on the verge of beginning arguments on the law as a whole and the mandate and Medicaid expansion specifically, we wanted to share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PPACA: Supreme Court Review And A Flurry Of Regulations</title>
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		<comments>http://www.medhok.com/healthcare-reform/ppaca-supreme-court-review-and-a-flurry-of-regulations.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court is set to begin hearing arguments next week on whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is constitutional or not. For our part, we feel the case could go either way, but many conservative constitutional scholars have opined that the Obama administration may have a good shot of convincing enough [...]]]></description>
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