In The Media, Michigan Radio: Why health insurance companies are pushing for 17% rate increase next year
CHRT Director, Marianne Udow-Phillips, discusses why insurance companies are requesting a 17% rate increase for individual health plans in Michigan for 2017.
Read more >Detroit Free Press, In The Media: Affordable Care Act rates may jump 17.3% in Michigan
Health plans sold on Michigan’s insurance exchange could see an average 17.3% increase next year, and if recent history is any guide, state regulators could approve the insurance companies’ rate hike requests without many — if any — changes…
Read more >In The Media, Modern Healthcare: Insurers will consolidate even if mega-mergers fail
Nearly everyone in healthcare speculated for the past year about how the U.S. Justice Department would respond to the mega-deals proposed by Aetna and Anthem. Officials were concise and stern as they delivered their answers from a podium last week…
Read more >In The Media, USA Today: Antitrust suits aim to block two health care mergers
The Obama administration announced Thursday it will seek to block two giant health care mergers, citing concerns that the deals could drive up health care premiums, undermine innovation and reduce competition…
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business, In The Media: Report: Metro Detroit community health centers reap $100 million in federal funding
Community health centers in metro Detroit have received more than $100 million in federal grant funding the past six years through the Affordable Care Act and related legislation. The additional funding has enabled the centers to expand services, purchase new equipment, develop new programs, expand access points and train health care workers, according to a study by Altarum Institute and …
Read more >In The Media, The Michigan Daily: Heroin and opiate usage spikes in Washtenaw County
At the end of June, every University of Michigan police officer will carry Naloxone, a generic version of the name-brand drug Narcan that reverses the effects of an overdose by blocking opiate receptors in the brain. This new training and policy comes two years after the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office began combating peaking opioid overdose numbers in the area…
Read more >In The Media, Michigan Radio: Good news on health care
Most religions have some basic creed all members are supposed to profess. Many political parties do as well. I’m not sure what that would be for Democrats these days. But for today’s Republicans, one basic article of faith is bitter opposition to the Affordable Care Act, perhaps better known as Obamacare…
Read more >In The Media, MLive: Huron Valley Ambulance honors project aimed at reducing heroin-related deaths
People and organizations in the Ann Arbor area are saving lives, and Huron Valley Ambulance took time this month to recognize them. The ambulance service that covers all of Washtenaw County and parts of Livingston and Wayne counties gave multiple honors and awards at a banquet May 18 during National EMS Week…
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business, In The Media: Michigan still fine tuning Medicaid mental health system
President John F. Kennedy started the mental health deinstitutionalization ball rolling early in 1963 before his assassination later that year by a man, Lee Harvey Oswald, who some believe had an untreated mental illness. Kennedy’s signing of the Mental Retardation Facilities and the Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act eventually led to Michigan closing more than 30 psychiatric hospitals beginning …
Read more >In The Media, Michigan Radio: Fewer Michiganders without health insurance, federal report says
The Michigan population without health insurance has dropped substantially since start of the Affordable Care Act, according to a report this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The percentage of uninsured Michiganders fell to 7% in 2015, down from more than 10% uninsured the previous year…
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