Health-care Rollout As Expected, Not As Planned

Health IT Thrives With New StartUp Companies

You might be surprised at what question you wont be asked: starting next year, health insurance plans cant refuse to cover you because you have a preexisting medical condition. During the application process, youll get information on whether you are eligible for subsidies to bring down the cost of your insurance. Youll see various plan options and costs. Once youve selected a plan, you can enroll. If you sign up by mid-December, your insurance coverage will start by Jan. 1.
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Health care exchange in Wash. has more problems

Hayes says, Building a company is extremely difficult, and a founders time is best spent on customer and product development, not fundraising. With that mentality, BluePrint does not use many pre-established filters when evaluating the near 1,000 applications it receives each year, but instead concentrates on business models. The nine particular startup companies that were cultivated during the summer of 2013 range from Healthify , which focuses on creating platforms that connect and standardize medical homes to treat social needs to Board Vitals , an organization that improves the testing system of our nations providers. Each of these new businesses gives hope to innovators and entrepreneurs. The Companies Artemis Artemis is a health care analytics firm specializing in benefit claims. With employers spending billions of dollars on health care, benefits managers need more information than the historical, once a year paper reports of the past. With the Artemis platform, benefit managers have graphical, real-time updates for claims and assessments. The creators claim that that deploying its tactics not only saves money for organizations, but also heads off future costs through prevention and determination of key cost drivers.
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Onizuka said his technical team did extensive testing before the launch. “We totally understand the frustration,” Marchand said. “We’re going to continue to make the site better.” They welcome feedback from the public on the phone and via email at customersupport@wahbexchange.org. In addition to the online marketplace, Washington residents can sign up by telephone or in person.
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