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Can I Pay For Contacts Or Glasses With My Health Insurance?
Routine adult vision care and prescription eyeglasses are not one of the essential benefits required under the Affordable Care act (ACA). The law does require eye care coverage for children (those...
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Are Prescription Drugs Covered Under My Health Insurance?
Health insurance policies offered through the state insurance exchanges, most job-based health plans, and public plans such as Medicaid and TRICARE include coverage for prescription medications. Most...
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What Should I Do If My Insurer Denies A Claim?
You pay your health insurance premiums on time. You use doctors and health care facilities listed in your health plan’s network. Yet your insurance company denies your claim. Can you fight this? Yes,...
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Does My Health Insurance Cover Substance Abuse Treatment?
Medical care for substance abuse, also referred to as substance use disorder, is one of the essential benefits health plans must provide to comply with provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)....
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Does My Health Insurance Cover Mental Illness Care?
Does your health insurance cover care for mental illness? For the majority of Americans, the answer is yes. Health plans purchased through the health insurance marketplace must cover 10 essential...
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Does My Health Insurance Work Outside Of The United States?
Most health plans do not cover medical services outside of the United States. While many health plans, both job-based and those offered in the health insurance marketplace, do provide some coverage for...
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Can I Pay For A Dentist With My Health Insurance?
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), dental coverage is treated differently for adults and children. Routine dental care for adults is not one of the essential health benefits required for a plan to be...
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Who Can I Contact With Problems About My Insurer?
You receive a medical bill for services you believe should be covered under your health plan. Your insurer won’t pre-authorize a procedure. Your doctor is dropped from your insurance company’s...
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Can My Health Insurance Cover My Spouse?
The availability of coverage for your spouse depends on your specific health plan. Some policies allow you to add a spouse to existing coverage at certain times like when there is a life qualifying...
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Can My Health Insurance Cover My Children?
The availability of coverage for your children depends on your health plan. You may have a plan that covers only you, or your plan may be a family plan, which would allow you to add your children to...
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What Has The Affordable Care Act Accomplished A Year Later?
The next Open Enrollment for the Affordable Care Act (also known as “Obamacare”) will begin on November 15, 2014. But with almost a year under its belt, has the Affordable Care Act impact as many...
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Survey: Primary Care Doctor Shortage Result Of ACA
MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — A shortage of primary care doctors has emerged as thousands of people gained insurance through the Affordable Care Act, according to a new survey. When Olivia Papa signed up for a...
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Maryland Extends Health Exchange Signup Period For Some
BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland’s health insurance exchange is extending enrollment nearly two weeks for those who began applying by Sunday. The Maryland Health Connection announced the extension Sunday,...
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Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare Subsidies
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, in a ruling that preserves health insurance for millions...
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Catholic Group Loses Fight; Must Provide Birth Control To Employees
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A legal setback in the fight over Obamacare. A group of Catholic nuns based here in Maryland just learned it will likely have to provide contraceptives to employees. Mary Bubala...
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Open Enrollment In Obamacare Underway Now
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Who could forget the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act a couple of years ago? Thousands were blocked from getting health insurance because of glitches in the system. Now open...
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House Republicans Offering Proposals for Health Care Changes
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are unveiling new proposals to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s health care law, as Speaker Paul Ryan seeks to showcase a GOP governing agenda amid the...
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Can Clinton Save Health Overhaul From Its Mounting Problems?
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With the hourglass running out for his administration, President Barack Obama’s health care law is struggling in many parts of the country....
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Obama Administration Confirms Double-Digit Premium Hikes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama’s health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday. That’s...
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For Trump and GOP, ‘Obamacare’ Repeal is Complex and Risky
WASHINGTON (AP) — Here’s the idea: Swiftly pass a repeal of President Barack Obama’s health care law, perhaps soon enough for Donald Trump to sign it the day he takes the presidential oath. Then...
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Report: Obamacare Repeal Could Cost Maryland Billions
BALTIMORE (WJZ/AP) — With Republicans promising to repeal the Affordable Care Act as President Barack Obama prepares to leave office, Maryland’s Department of Legislative Services has released a report...
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Hours Left to Enroll in Obamacare for 2017; President Trump to Repeal
BALTIMORE (WJZ)– The deadline to enroll in Obamacare is near but many people who are eligible aren’t sure what to do. That’s because President Trump is moving to repeal it. But the health plans are...
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Trump Toasts Nation’s Governors Ahead Of Health Care Talks
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump toasted the nation’s governors Sunday night, welcoming state leaders to a black-tie ball at the White House ahead of discussions about his plans to repeal and...
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Trump Going Outside Washington For Support On Health Bill
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — President Donald Trump is deploying an outside and inside strategy to fulfill his campaign promise to repeal and replace “Obamacare,” seeking support beyond Washington before...
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Trump Exhorts Senate Anew To Rid US Of Obamacare
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lecturing fellow Republicans, President Donald Trump summoned GOP senators to the White House Wednesday and told them face-to-face they must not leave town for their August recess...
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Pence Breaks Tie, Senate Votes To Begin Debating ACA Replacement
WASHINGTON (AP) — With Vice President Mike Pence breaking the tie, the Senate voted Tuesday to begin debating a Republican bill scuttling the Affordable Care Act in a win for the GOP and President...
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Senate Rejects Plan To Repeal Obamacare, Then Replace Later
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Senate rejects Republican plan to repeal Obama health law and leave replacement for later. The plan would have given Congress two years to come up with a replacement, but it didn’t...
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GOP’s ‘Obamacare’ Repeal All But Dead; McCain Deals The Blow
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain declared his opposition Friday to the GOP’s last-ditch effort to repeal and replace “Obamacare,” dealing a likely death blow to the legislation and, perhaps, to the...
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No Vote This Week On GOP Health Care Bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans will not vote this week on the latest, last-ditch effort to repeal and replace Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. That’s the word from senators as they emerged...
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Employers Can Now Opt Out Of Birth Control Coverage Citing ‘Religious Or...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Employers with a “religious or moral objection” to paying for health insurance that covers contraception or abortion drugs can be exempt from the Obamacare requirement to cover those...
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Calling It A Beginning, Trump Signs Health Care Order
WASHINGTON (AP) — Frustrated by health care failures in Congress, President Donald Trump directed his administration Thursday to rewrite some federal insurance rules as a beginning of renewed efforts...
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Many States, Consumers Alarmed By Trump’s Health Care Order
BALTIMORE (AP) — President Donald Trump’s decision to end a provision of the Affordable Care Act that lowered out-of-pocket medical costs brought swift reaction from the states, as health officials and...
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Congressman Cummings To Talk About ACA Enrollment
BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings will be paying a visit to Baltimore to encourage people to enroll in the Affordable Care Act. During Monday afternoon’s press conference,...
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Open Enrollment Extended Until December 22
BALTIMORE (WJZ)– People in Maryland looking to enroll in the Affordable Care Act will have some extra time to do so. Open enrollment through Maryland Health Connection has been extended until Friday,...
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Open Enrollment For Affordable Care Act In Maryland Ends Today
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — As Obamacare continues to face threats of getting repealed, open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act comes to a close in Maryland on Friday. According to our media partners at...
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More Than 4 In 5 Enrolled In ‘Obamacare’ Are In Trump States
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans in states that Donald Trump carried in his march to the White House account for more than 4 in 5 of those signed up for coverage under the health care law the president...
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Trump Admin Temporarily Halting Some Payments Under Obamacare Program
(CNN) — The Trump administration announced Saturday that it will temporarily halt billions of dollars in payments under the Affordable Care Act’s risk adjustment program, a move that could shake up...
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House Democrats File Court Motion To Defend Obamacare
(CNN) — In their first hours in control of the House of Representatives, Democrats filed a motion to intervene in an ongoing lawsuit that threatens to bring down the Affordable Care Act. The petition...
View ArticleUS Court Appeals Maryland’s Move To Block Abortion Changes
BALTIMORE (AP) — The federal government is appealing a court injunction against a Trump administration action that prohibits family planning organizations from referring pregnant women to abortion...
View ArticleWhat Is The Difference Between An HMO And A PPO?
The October 2013 launch of the health insurance marketplace found many Americans scrolling through lists of health plans, puzzling over industry-specific terms, trying to decide which plan to choose....
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