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The Affordable Care Act's business mandate could have unintended consequences, but the answer is reform, not another GOP effort to repeal the entire law. - Evelyn M. "Evvie" Spohn, whose career as a registered nurse caring for patients and their families spanned more than 70 years, died Wednesday from heart failure.
- AMA decision to label obesity as a disease could prove helpful if it brings greater resources to bear against a worsening national epidemic
- Maryland has begun lining up key organizations to help educate and enroll people in insurance plans under health reform as the Obama administration launches a national outreach campaign.
- Tens of thousands of Marylanders will get rebates from their health insurance companies this summer under a provision in the Affordable Care Act
- A federal appeals court overturned the sentence of a Baltimore police officer convicted of taking kickbacks from a tow truck company, ruling that a lower court was wrong in how it assigned a dollar value to the scheme.
- In about 100 days Affordable Care Act enrollment will kick in, with Maryland leading the way nationally
- Health care act will spur competition among insurers
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- Attorney General Douglas Gansler called on state legislators Tuesday to cap insurance rate increases to 5 percent until health reform is instituted.
- Terry O. Downer, an insurance company claims adjuster and world traveler, died Saturday from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
- The New York Times looked at the varying costs of a colonoscopy at hospitals around the country to illustrate how simple medical procedures are driving up health care costs.
- Jockeys John Velazquez and Ramon Dominguez call for racetracks to provide increased insurance for long-term disability in cases of injury.
- The members of the Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners honored two Harford Day School students Monday for their dedication to the arts, their studies and the community.
- The data for 3,300 hospitals released by the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services shows wide variation in what hopsitals charge. It marks the first time information about hospital rates has been released publicly.
- Richard F. Ober, a retired lawyer and insurance company executive who was an avid Chesapeake Bay sailor, died April 13 from complications of vascular disease at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 98.
- Maryland hospitals said they will have to cut jobs and services to patients after a state panel voted Wednesday to keep hospital rates flat, despite cuts required by federal sequestration.
- Maryland health officials may ask state lawmakers for permission to oversee plastic surgery centers, a move intended to align regulations with medical risk instead of insurance billing practices and in part inspired by the death of a Lochearn woman after liposuction.
- Banks, insurers, regulators, rating agencies and Wall Street deserve a lot more of the blame for subprime crisis than the poor
- The state's hospitals would take on the entire burden of 2 percent Medicare cuts required by federal sequestration under a proposal released Thursday by the state panel that sets hospital rates.
- Think of CareFirst's proposed 25 percent rate increase as the list price on a car; it doesn't tell the whole story — or what you'll eventually pay under Obamacare.
- The state's largest health insurer has proposed raising rates an average of 25 percent for those who buy through the individual market to help cover the cost of more sick people entering the pool under health reform.
- Marylanders would find it easier to buy auto coverage from a state insurance fund, foster children would gain protection from identity thieves and debtors would be less likely to be jailed under bills recently passed by lawmakers.
- Time is running out to file tax returns. In the rush, avoid errors and don't overlook a valuable tax breaks.
- A Florida insurance company has repaid $312,551 to thousands of Marylanders after overcharging them on life and health benefits, the Maryland Insurance Administration said Monday.
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- Area hospitals are uneasy about a plan by Maryland health officials that would tie medical spending to the growth of the state's economy and drastically change the way hospitals operate.
- Evergreen Health Cooperative Inc., a consumer-owned nonprofit that will compete with private insurers to sell health policies, said Wednesday it has received a key state certificate that will allow it to offer health benefit plans later this year.
- As lawmakers put finish plans to apply federal health care reform mandates in Maryland, stakeholders worry about costs as the state speeds toward becoming one of the first to revamp its system.
- A bill to give health regulators more oversight of facilities like the shuttered Monarch Medspa in Timonium is making a late surge in the General Assembly after weeks of discussions among state and industry officials.
- The Maryland Senate could vote as early as Wednesday on a bill that would qualify more Marylanders for government health care and pay for a new health insurance marketplace, both part of advancing the rollout of federal health reform.
- Health advocates are concerned that new guidance from the Obama administration could make it more expensive for some low- and middle-income parents to pay for dental insurance for their children once the new health care law takes effect next year.
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- HHS secretary Sebelius says Marylanders are benefiting from the ACA, three years after its passage
