Plans must use this additional money to reduce cost sharing, reduce premiums, and offer additional benefits.
But banks seem crippled to navigate the abyss of implementation schemes, cost sharing, regulatory compliance, security and customer ownership issues.
But Obamacare largely prescribes the benefit design and limits cost sharing, leaving networks one of the few levers that plans have to manage costs and competition.
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But this new rule also protects employees by discouraging employers from using health reform as an excuse to cut their benefits or increase their cost sharing.
Already, the Affordable Care Act has extended coverage to thousands of young adults, and has increased access to HIV testing for millions of women without cost sharing.
In general, these findings argue strongly against the idea that the effect of expanding coverage on utilization can be deduced simply from the reduction in patient cost sharing.
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Nearly 71 million Americans got expanded access to preventive service at no charge through their private insurance plans, and 47 million women now have guaranteed access to additional preventive services without cost sharing.
Yet, allowing patients to face the discipline of market forces rather than shielding them entirely (as is done in Canada, where cost sharing for health services guaranteed under federal law is prohibited) has the potential to reduce spending by nearly a third.
Moreover, the Exchange subsidies available to those with incomes between 100 and 138 percent of poverty would limit their insurance premiums to 2 percent of their income and would limit their liability for cost sharing to 6 percent of the actuarial value of the plan.
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Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures statewide.
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Katzenberg brought studios and exhibitors together to craft a cost-sharing solution to pay for digital 3-D-enabled projectors.
Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures for the entire commonwealth.
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This year the trend may be amplified because health plans these days require so much more cost-sharing.
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The second shift within the health-care industry has been to change patients' incentives with more cost-sharing and larger deductibles.
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Short of premium support a dead letter for the Obama Presidency Republicans could do more to develop a proposal called comprehensive cost-sharing.
Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures for all counties and Tribes within the State.
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The truth is that the shift to consumer-directed health care and greater cost-sharing involves a culture change that may take decades.
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Negron goes further, claiming that his Medicaid expansion is conservative, because it would require a greater degree of cost-sharing with the beneficiary.
They are more likely to receive substandard care from being underinsured or because of high cost-sharing and other barriers to quality care.
People living with HIV are also especially cognizant of the barriers to care posed by unreasonable cost-sharing even when they have insurance.
C. to ask the Obama administration for a waiver that would allow her state to streamline eligibility, change provider pay, and establish cost-sharing.
As airlines elsewhere have merged or struck strong cost-sharing alliances, Virgin has been like a wallflower at a wedding reception, watching everyone else pair off.
In addition, insurance plans are now covering without cost-sharing more prevention-related services for women, such as well-woman visits, breastfeeding support and supplies, and gestational diabetes screening.
Warwickshire Primary Care Trust insisted that it had not changed its policy on Lucentis, simply that it could not be funded without the Novartis cost-sharing deal.
Premium increases would have been even higher in 2003--an estimated average 18%--if not for increased consumer cost-sharing through higher deductibles, copayments and coinsurance, the study said.
That is true, although the administration is now hinting that it may allow greater levels of Medicaid cost-sharing than have been tolerated in the past.
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Part of the problem is that each health plan covers prescriptions using a different formulary and cost-sharing scheme, so consumers often only see what the co-pay is.
After the initial announcements of the Disney Park, the government is expected to hold a press conference where it may address the possibly controversial question of cost-sharing.
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After the backlash against managed care, it is now seeking to delegate more responsibility to individual consumers, mainly through plans with more cost-sharing by way of higher co-payments.
The BCAP (Biomass Crop Assistance Program), part of the 2008 farm bill, is designed to encourage farmers to plant biomass by cost-sharing the establishment of the crops.
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