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Is the FTC Banning Non-Competes?

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Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a rule that will ban many non-compete agreements throughout the country if it is enacted.

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Non-compete agreements are agreements that prevent employees from working in certain industries following employment with their current employer. They are often limited by geographic scope and time.

For example, a non-compete clause may prevent a physician from working in the medical field for one year following …

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How Discovery keeps innovating | McKinsey

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in 1992, Adrian Gore founded Discovery with an idea for a health-insurance model that would make people healthier. The South African start-up quickly grew into a global player, with a market cap of over $8 billion and a foothold in major markets, including the United Kingdom and China. In the commentary that follows, Gore reflects on the Discovery Group’s sources of innovative energy and on the organizational efforts required to maintain that energy as the company grows. (For more on these issues, see “The eight essentials of innovation.”) One key, says Gore, is that rewards and risk taking go hand

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Auto-enrollment in Medicaid and ACA insurance can cover more Americans and reduce health costs for all. New HKS research shows how.

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Headshot of Mark Shepard.For the estimated 30 million uninsured Americans, navigating insurance enrollment can be confusing, cumbersome, and intimidating. The hassles are so great that some people have avoided enrollment altogether, and that can be costly for everyone. And when the Biden administration lifts the COVID-19 public health emergency, as it plans to in April, another 18 million people could lose Medicaid coverage.

But HKS Associate Professor Mark Shepard says there is good news for the insurance enrollment process. And he has the data to back it up. We spoke with Shepard about his new working paper, “Reducing Ordeals Through Automatic Enrollment: Evidence

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Legal Documents for Your Graduating Senior

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If you are a parent with a child who will graduate from high school soon, now is a good time to start planning what documents the child will need moving forward.

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If you have a child who recently turned 18, you need to start thinking about the potential legal implications and how best to protect your child’s interests. Estate planning is not always about planning for death, but it is

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Elevance Health to Acquire Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana

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What You Need to Know

  • Elevance has 47 million health plan enrollees.
  • Louisiana Blue has 1.9 million enrollees.
  • One thing both have in common: a relatively low share of the private Medicare plan market.

Elevance Health — the health insurance giant formerly known as Anthem — has agreed to acquire Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana.

Elevance, an Indianapolis-based company with about $160 billion in annual revenue and 47 million health plan enrollees, would be getting a Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based carrier with $4 billion in annual revenue and 1.9 million health plan enrollees.

Elevance expects to pay for Louisiana

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Do You Worry About Your Parents’ Health?

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Many of our clients worry about their parents. Sometimes, they are concerned for their aging parents in regards to their healthcare.

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We often recommend that concerned clients have a discussion with their parents to make sure that they have all the right documents in place, to protect their wishes.

One incredibly important document that your parents should have in place is a Medical Durable Power of Attorney.

What is a

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NJ expands health insurance to more low-income children

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New Jersey expanding health insurance to more low-income children


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MORRISTOWN, NJ (CBS) — New Jersey is expanding health insurance to more low-income children. As of January 1, the program is now open to children regardless of immigration status.

Gov. Phil Murphy highlighted the change Wednesday.

“This is a huge huge step today,” said Murphy. “After all, this is not called cover some kids or cover most kids, this is called Cover All Kids.”

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Can You Get Your PHI Back?

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If you had concerns about your healthcare data in the hands of your vendors, what do your contracts say in regards to getting that data back?

A recent court case required a healthcare vendor to return data to the healthcare entity.

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CommonSpirit Health hired Emerge Clinical Solutions to process and archive protected health information in 2021.

However, CommonSpirit Health began experiencing issues with the data extracts and was unable to

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