The U.S. medical inflation rate is expected to dip to 6.5 percent in 2016 according to PWC's latest Health Research Institute report entitled Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers.

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Steven Max Patterson, in a 6.10.15 CIO.com post, reminds us that:

If the U.S. Supreme Court rules for the plaintiff later this month in the case of King v. Burwell, 7.5 million Americans stand to lose their Obamacare tax credits. Such a ruling would make it illegal to sell subsidized Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage on the federal healthcare.gov insurance exchange website...

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According to the author:

When the healthcare.gov website debuted two years ago, it was rife with bugs and system problems as was highly publicized at the time. When former U.S. CTO Todd Park was appointed by President Obama to oversee the fix, the site was also redesigned to run on Amazon EC2 clusters as a SaaS application that could be customized and operated by states as independent state exchanges. This enables states that want to keep Obamacare to offer subsidized insurance by moving from the federal exchange to a state-run exchange, like Oregon did with Cover Oregon.

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Ayla Ellison, reporting for Becker's Hospital Review on June 08, 2015, delivers to us the hospitals, health systems and healthcare companies who entered into settlement agreements to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute or Stark Law since January.

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With entitlement programs unfunded and a rapidly aging baby boomer demographic to support, the Feds can be expected to vigorously pursue practitioners abusing the system. This is a must-read for Florida healthcare providers.