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Mississippi Builds Insurance Exchange, Even As It Fights Health Law
Mississippi, a deeply red Southern state that is part of the Supreme Court case against the health law, is moving full speed ahead with one of the key provisions of that law: an online health insurance exchange.
Unlike Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and other southern conservative states, Mississippi is well on its way to having an insurance exchange ready for operation by the 2014 deadline laid out by the health overhaul law.
"There are portions in that act that are good parts. And that part happens to be the exchange," says Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, a Republican in his second term. "It's not a Republican idea. It is not a Democratic idea. It is a universal idea, and it has been around a long time.”
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Source: Kaiser Health News
Nomogram Predicts Overall Survival in Patients With Ovarian Cancer, Liver Metastases
January 9th 2025Researchers developed and validated a nomogram to predict 1-, 2-, and 3-year overall survival (OS) in patients with ovarian cancer and liver metastases (OCLM), outperforming an external model in stability and accuracy.
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AI's Role in Oncology: Supporting, Not Replacing, Health Care Providers
January 9th 2025In this second half of our interview with Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Travis Osterman, DO, MS, FAMIA, FASCO, he discusses opportunities for advancing the smart use of artificial intelligence (AI) in cancer care.
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Managed Care Cast Presents: BTK Inhibitors in Treatment-Naive Patients With CLL and MCL
December 26th 2024A trio of experts discuss the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) with Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitors, including cost considerations.
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