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Biden expands window to try and keep millions more low-income Americans insured: The end of a Covid-era Medicaid protection has created an acute problem for the ...
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Biden expands window to try and keep millions more low-income Americans ...
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New Medicaid rule aims to simplify enrollment: Enrolling in Medicaid and staying on the program's rolls is about to get easier under a streamlined process the ...
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New Medicaid rule aims to simplify enrollment
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Busting the Myths of Medicare Advantage: While the for-profit plans of Medicare Advantage are a convenient solution for insurance companies ...
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Busting the Myths of Medicare Advantage
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Medicare will cover Wegovy to reduce heart disease risk: Medicare will provide coverage for Wegovy for patients with an increased risk of heart attack ...
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Medicare will cover Wegovy to reduce heart disease risk
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If Republicans want to end abortion, they need to expand Medicaid to cover those babies
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If Republicans want to end abortion, they need to expand Medicaid to cover ...
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6.9 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease: How to reduce your risk: Public and private spending to take care of Alzheimer's and dementia patients will ...
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6.9 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease: How to reduce your risk
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Surprise medical bill law has been good for providers: A new law meant to protect patients could inadvertently raise premiums, an analysis finds.
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Surprise medical bill law has been good for providers
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Drugmakers give surprising response to Medicare drug price offers: Pharmaceutical executives have given surprisingly optimistic reactions to initial offers from ...
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Drugmakers give surprising response to Medicare drug price offers
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Best Medicare Advantage Plans in Each State for 2024: Discover the top Medicare Advantage plan insurance options available in your state for 2024. U.S ...
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Best Medicare Advantage Plans in Each State for 2024
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Social Security, Medicare Fight Kicks Off With Biden Budget: The president’s budget proposal will revive a plan to stabilize Medicare by increasing taxes on ...
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Social Security, Medicare Fight Kicks Off With Biden Budget
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New way for states to cover pricey gene therapies will start with sickle cell disease
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New way for states to cover pricey gene therapies will start with sickle ...
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Medicare pays millions for remote vital sign monitoring. Is it worth it?: Tech companies are pushing remote monitoring service to doctors as a way to keep tabs ...
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Medicare pays millions for remote vital sign monitoring. Is it worth it?
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65 and Working? Here's Everything You Need to Know About Medicare Enrollment: Find out if you're required to join, and how to avoid late enrollment penalties.
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65 and Working? Here's Everything You Need to Know About Medicare ...
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Medicare announces emergency funds for doctors affected by Change Healthcare hack
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Medicare announces emergency funds for doctors affected by Change ...
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Health industry struggles to recover from cyberattack on a unit of UnitedHealth : Doctors are worried that the attack on Change Healthcare, part of ...
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Health industry struggles to recover from cyberattack on a unit of ...
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CMS extends special enrollment period for marketplace plans: Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program members looking to transition to a federal ...
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CMS extends special enrollment period for marketplace plans
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CMS eases Medicaid, CHIP enrollment and renewal under final rule: The final rule is designed to simplify enrollment in and renewal of Medicaid ...
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CMS eases Medicaid, CHIP enrollment and renewal under final rule
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CMS gives new six-figure contracts to 11 executives. How much will each make?
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CMS gives new six-figure contracts to 11 executives. How much will each ...
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LGBTQ flag in NC elementary school sparks social media buzz. But is it what critics say?
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LGBTQ flag in NC elementary school sparks social media buzz ...
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CMS to launch new primary care ACO program: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to set up new primary care payments for low-revenue Accountable ...
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CMS to launch new primary care ACO program
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Health insurers retreat from ACO REACH: For the first time in the program’s four-year history, CMS reported a year-over-year decline in the number of accountable ...
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Health insurers retreat from ACO REACH
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How Medicare can start covering a popular weight-loss drug for more people: The recent approval of Wegovy for heart risks could greatly expand access ...
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How Medicare can start covering a popular weight-loss drug for more people
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Change update: CMS allows for speedier Medicaid reimbursements: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services developed a process to expedite funds to state ...
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Change update: CMS allows for speedier Medicaid reimbursements
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NC’s Parents’ Bill of Rights prompts cancellations for domestic violence classes in CMS
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NC’s Parents’ Bill of Rights prompts cancellations for domestic violence ...
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Wegovy’s newly verified heart benefits under review by Medicare: The US federal health insurance, Medicare may soon be required to cover the blockbuster ...
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Wegovy’s newly verified heart benefits under review by Medicare
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Medicare Advantage Enrollment Is Up But Growth Is Slowing: The Medicare Part C plans now account for at least 50% of Medicare enrollment in 26 states.
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Medicare Advantage Enrollment Is Up But Growth Is Slowing
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CMS high school teacher accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old student: Police charged 25-year-old Harding University High School teacher with felony ...
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CMS high school teacher accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old ...
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Key health takeaways from WA’s 2024 legislative session: Lawmakers approved a range of health care bills during this year's 60-day session ...
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Key health takeaways from WA’s 2024 legislative session
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📚With federal COVID relief money expiring, CMS is making tough decisions about teacher pay and bonuses. CMS says legislature should raise pay ... Show more
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Regulator accused of treating medical schemes with hostility: Bias towards National Health Insurance said to be behind the breakdown in relations
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Regulator accused of treating medical schemes with hostility
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Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah flags off ‘Police Run Program’ in Bengaluru#CMSiddaramaiah #PoliceRunProgram #Karnataka
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CVS-Aetna leads for-profit insurers' Medicare Advantage enrollment surge: For-profit insurers led by CVS Health's Aetna are gobbling up the majority of new ...
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CVS-Aetna leads for-profit insurers' Medicare Advantage enrollment surge
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Federal Judge Dismisses Pharma Giant's Challenge to Medicare Drug Price Negotiations
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Federal Judge Dismisses Pharma Giant's Challenge to Medicare Drug Price ...
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All drugmakers send in counteroffers in Medicare price negotiations: All of the manufacturers whose drugs were chosen for the federal government’s Medicare price ...
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All drugmakers send in counteroffers in Medicare price negotiations
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GOP leaders demand answers from Medicare on alleged $2B catheter fraud: At least 10 companies are linked to an unexplained surge in bills for urinary catheters.
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GOP leaders demand answers from Medicare on alleged $2B catheter fraud
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Judge denies AstraZeneca’s lawsuit against Medicare negotiation: A judge on Friday granted the federal government’s request for summary judgment against ...
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Judge denies AstraZeneca’s lawsuit against Medicare negotiation
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Navigating Medicare Deductibles and Premiums in 2024: Learn about Medicare deductibles and premiums for 2024.
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Navigating Medicare Deductibles and Premiums in 2024
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CMS Proposal Will Increase fees to Access Important Health Care Data: Researchers across the country fear a new proposal by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...
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CMS Proposal Will Increase fees to Access Important Health Care Data
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Patients see first savings from Biden’s drug price push, as pharma lines up its lawyers
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Patients see first savings from Biden’s drug price push, as pharma lines ...
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Loaded gun found in Rocky River High School student’s backpack, CMS confirms
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Loaded gun found in Rocky River High School student’s backpack ...
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Health care quality took a big hit during COVID, Medicare report finds: Patient safety worsened and there were persistent equity gaps.
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Health care quality took a big hit during COVID, Medicare report finds
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Biden officials keep states waiting on expanding Medicaid voter registration: Officials in Oregon, Colorado and other states are waiting for Biden officials to ...
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Biden officials keep states waiting on expanding Medicaid voter ...
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Biden’s coming for your cures: I urge the president to work across the aisle alongside Congress to make prescription drugs more affordable without retreating on ...
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Biden’s coming for your cures
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While CMS is at it, here’s more history to include in teacher ‘retraining’ | Opinion
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While CMS is at it, here’s more history to include in teacher ‘retraining’ ...
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Medicare Supplement Plan F and Plan G: Should You Switch?: Medicare Supplement Plans F and G have been popular choices for Medigap coverage ...
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Medicare Supplement Plan F and Plan G: Should You Switch?
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UN: Nearly half of migratory species are in decline as global extinction risks rise
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UN: Nearly half of migratory species are in decline as global extinction ...
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For more than a decade, researchers and advocates have argued that housing is a fundamental part of health care. Beginning this fall, for the first time ... Show more
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Florida challenges federal requirement to keep kids on health insurance: The state is suing Biden over a policy limiting when states can remove children from ...
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Florida challenges federal requirement to keep kids on health insurance
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Report: 20% of U.N.-protected migratory species facing extinction due to human activity - UPI.com
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Report: 20% of U.N.-protected migratory species facing extinction due to ...
Quick Glance: Endangered Animal Migrations: Human Activities Threaten Biodiversity
  • Major report: 97% of migratory fish species facing extinction.

  • Human impacts jeopardize migrating species globally.

  • Many endangered migratory species with declining populations.

  • More than a fifth of monitored migratory species at risk.
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Medicaid’s prescription for health includes food and housing in some states: A growing number of states are broadening the health-coverage program into a hub for ...
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Medicaid’s prescription for health includes food and housing in some ...
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U.S. investigates alleged Medicare fraud scheme estimated at $2 billion: The potential scale of the alleged fraudulent billing operation is with little precedent ...
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U.S. investigates alleged Medicare fraud scheme estimated at $2 billion
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools says it will retrain teachers after a photo of a Black History Month display at West Charlotte High School caused a stir on ... Show more
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Long Island hospitals lose millions in Medicare infection, readmission penalties: Infection and readmission scores for local hospitals have improved ...
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Long Island hospitals lose millions in Medicare infection ...
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Medicare drug price negotiations kick off with price offers on these 10 drugs: The Biden administration sends Medicare price offers to drug companies for 10 ...
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Medicare drug price negotiations kick off with price offers on these 10 ...
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How Trump could weaken Medicare drug pricing negotiations: Despite his earlier support for the idea, former Trump officials say he'd likely change new Medicare ...
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How Trump could weaken Medicare drug pricing negotiations
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House approves ban on disputed measure for valuing treatments: QALYs are viewed as a key tool for comparing treatments but have been held up as discriminatory ...
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House approves ban on disputed measure for valuing treatments
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Court dismisses lawsuit challenging Medicare drug price negotiations: The Biden administration is working on forcing the pharmaceutical industry to lower the ...
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Court dismisses lawsuit challenging Medicare drug price negotiations
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Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say ‘yes’: States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s ...
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Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say ‘yes’
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Medicare Certifies Hospices in California Despite State Ban on New Licenses: The agency has rolled out sweeping changes to target end-of-life care providers that ...
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Medicare Certifies Hospices in California Despite State Ban on New ...
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Medicare drug price negotiations to start on heart, diabetes, arthritis drugs: The government is set to begin negotiating prices on the 10 costliest prescription ...
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Medicare drug price negotiations to start on heart, diabetes ...
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House panel votes to block CMS nursing home staffing mandate: President Joe Biden announced a plan to set minimum staffing levels for nursing homes two years ago ...
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House panel votes to block CMS nursing home staffing mandate
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What Is Medicare: Coverage, Cost and Enrollment: Confused about Medicare? We’ll break it down for you to learn about what Medicare is, who is eligible and how to ...
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What Is Medicare: Coverage, Cost and Enrollment
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Arizona ranks as the No. 18 best state to retire on a budget: A new study found Arizona is the No. 18 best state to retire on a budget in 2024 ...
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Arizona ranks as the No. 18 best state to retire on a budget
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CMS offers relief to providers affected by Change Healthcare outage: The American Hospital Association and other groups pleaded with the Health and Human ...
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CMS offers relief to providers affected by Change Healthcare outage
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Glaucoma patients deserve innovative treatment options : This month more than ever, we should be focusing our attention on glaucoma and those who are seeking ...
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Glaucoma patients deserve innovative treatment options 
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Software errors forced many to lose Medicaid, complaint to FTC alleges: Hundreds of thousands in Texas have lost coverage because of software problems ...
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Software errors forced many to lose Medicaid, complaint to FTC alleges
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Health insurers balk at proposed Medicare Advantage rates: The health plans say they're facing greater pressure as people are using more health care.
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Health insurers balk at proposed Medicare Advantage rates
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Elevance nabs $190M in Medicare Advantage star ratings revision: Elevance Health, which manages Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in 14 states, will receive the extra ...
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Elevance nabs $190M in Medicare Advantage star ratings revision