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Health Systems Are Having Difficulty Connecting With Patients.
In today’s fragmented digital landscape, health systems are having difficulty connecting with patients. This is leading to a potential decrease in patient acquisition — and ultimately less revenue. With physician and health system information living across a variety of places and devices, patients are having trouble finding the right healthcare information in moments that matter.
Proposed Rule Seeks to Expand Access To Associated Health Plans
In an effort to increase access to affordable healthcare coverage, the Trump Administration on Thursday morning proposed a new rule that aims to expand access to certain associated health plans. The rule is meant to stir competition in the health insurance markets.
Within the rule, small businesses and those who are self-employed will be able to work together to obtain affordable health insurance. If enacted, this rule would change the way “employer” is referred to under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. By doing so, more groups would be able to form health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act.
Experts analyze that the proposed rule would actually hurt the individual health insurance market, since these associated health plans that would be made would not be under the same regulations and protections as other health plans in the market.
Read the original article from Modern Healthcare here.
