Posted on 03/14/2014 5:12:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Obama administration is requiring health plans in Obamacare insurance marketplaces to include a more robust offering of care providers in 2015 after some early backlash over limited networks in the health care law's first year.
Health plans selling on the federal marketplaces in 2015 must include 30 percent of area "essential community providers," which are usually health centers and other hospitals serving mostly low-income patients. That's up from a 20 percent requirement in 2014, the first year of expanded overage under the health care law.
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the marketplaces, will also take a much more active role in reviewing health plan networks. CMS, which outlined the new standards in a Friday night letter to insurers, will evaluate whether the plans include enough access to hospitals, primary care doctors, mental health providers and oncologists. The updated standards came after a Friday interview in which President Barack Obama acknowledged that pressure to keep down costs could mean consumers may not have access to their choice of doctor.
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My sentiments exactly.
Keep the word "Impeachment" out there every day until the media HAS to defend it and it becomes the talk of the town across America.
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And they said Communism fell with the wall.
we need the Senate flipped and obama impeached...
otherwise there will be NO America that any of us recognize.
the guy is a complete power hungry wacko case..
so who care if Biden is pres. for couple years, as slow and dumb as he is, he will still be looking for a place to vacation and for new drapes for WH..
WAKE UP VOTERS...WE NEED TO HAVE THE ENTIRE CONGRESS.
Excellent!
Well then What’s up, the only thing stopping impeachment or any other accountability is your oft defended friends in the GOP. They have the power right?
Perhaps you might have a word with them.
They may not force them at the point of a gun, they will just destroy them in other ways if they do not comply.
The Chicago way, you know.
As long as I have life, I refuse.
At least as of now, concierge service is still an option. Old doctors can retire. It’s probably the younger doctors who will be least able to escape.
And if the docs choose not to play?
insurance companies were not failing fast enough so this is to hasten the decline.
Will the doctors be required to provide medical care to 30% of the low-income patients or lose their license to practice?
This will most definitely increase the premiums and deductibles next year.
I know some LIV’s who love hearing stuff like this.
They still buy into Obamamania.
Yep, we have a regular little dicktator here.
2015 will also see gay partners included
“Impeachment. Way over due.”
Okay but we don’t have the votes to do it in Congress.
“And if the docs choose not to play?”
Most doc graduate with about 400,000 in student loan debts.
Let them do what they need to do. They have so little time.
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