Nevada Health Link - Final Week Enrollment Events Nevada Health Link – Final Week Enrollment Enrollment Events at Preferred Broker Location All Week w/ Extended Hours Las Vegas— December 9, 2019 — All this week, the Nevada Health Link Preferred Broker, ProtectHealth, will be hosting Nevada Health Link sign-up events in an efford to assist as many Nevadan’s as possible … [Read more...] about Nevada Health Link – Final Enrollment Week Events
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Around the StateDecember 2019
UNLV School of Medicine Achieves Accreditation Milestone The UNLV School of Medicine (SOM) has been granted provisional accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME). The school is on track for full accreditation by 2021 or 2022. The LCME is the accrediting body for schools of medicine in the US and Canada. The school earned preliminary accreditation in … [Read more...] about Around the State
Medicaid Expansion Pressures Nevada’s Poor, Doctors, State Budget
Addition of 281,000 to state dole creating long waits for doctor openings Last year, almost 25,000 Nevadans found their health plans canceled, thanks to the so-called Affordable Care Act. The ACA also caused a dramatic increase in the price of individual insurance plans — with Nevada having the largest premium increases in the entire country, according to a national study … [Read more...] about Medicaid Expansion Pressures Nevada’s Poor, Doctors, State Budget
Health Insurance Update: The Real Cost of Healthcare
The healthcare industry, over many years, has been undergoing a gradual but major shift in how insurers pay providers. Against that backdrop, the state began implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) mandates, several of which the federal government has delayed or amended since. The ACA or Obamacare, as it has become known, has caused additional … [Read more...] about Health Insurance Update: The Real Cost of Healthcare
The Coming Tsunami: Healthcare Reform in Nevada
Amidst dire predictions of monstrous cost increases, and in the wake of President Barack Obama’s recent unilateral (some insist unconstitutional) decision to delay enforcement of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer mandate until after the 2014 elections, business leaders across Nevada are adopting a wait-and-see attitude. There is little else they can do. Across the … [Read more...] about The Coming Tsunami: Healthcare Reform in Nevada