Four things to know about health insurance premiums expected Thursday – Twin Cities : twincities

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Four things to know about health insurance premiums expected Thursday – Twin Cities

Four things to know about health insurance premiums expected Thursday – Twin Cities

Minnesota's insurance companies will unveil their proposed 2017 rates Thursday — and Minnesotans should expect some sticker shock.The new rates for the state's individual insurance marketplace are expected to see increases of at least 25 percent and perhaps far more.Affected will be people who buy individual insurance plans — about 300,000 people today, of whom 70,000 buy through the state-run MNsure exchange and about 230,000 directly from insurers.


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Geisinger health insurance to expand in Lehigh Valley

Geisinger health insurance to expand in Lehigh Valley

Employers and individuals in the Lehigh Valley will have more insurance options from Geisinger Health Plan, which announced Wednesday that it is expanding in the region through a partnership with St. Luke's University Health Network.Geisinger Health Plan is owned by Geisinger Health System, a nonprofit health care provider based in Danville, Montour County.Geisinger's expansion and partnership with St. Luke's was announced Wednesday at a press conference at the St. Luke's Conference Center in Bethlehem Township.


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Liver transplants' effect on patients' health insurance post-Medicaid expansion

Liver transplants' effect on patients' health insurance post-Medicaid expansion

In the JournalsFindings published in Liver Transplantation suggest the number of patients who switched from private insurance to Medicaid post-liver transplant was greater in Medicaid expansion states than non-expansion ones."The growing representation of Medicaid participation among [liver transplant] recipients underscores the need to examine insurance transitions after [solid organ transplantation (SOT)] and to identify how these transitions contribute to socioeconomic disparities in patient outcomes and overall rates of mortality, graft loss, and complications among transplant recipients," Dmitry Tumin, PhD, of the department of pediatrics and Comprehensive Transplant Center, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University and Center for Epidemiology of Organ Failure and Transplantation, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, and colleagues wrote."We evaluated this approach using critical flicker frequency and MELD score.