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The Maryland Health Benefit Exchange hopes the state’s reinsurance waiver application will gain approval by the end of August, officials said at the exchange’s monthly board meeting Monday. Over the next couple of months, Maryland will see several milestone dates, ...

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Baltimore needs to promote policies that increase access to healthy food that people will actually take advantage of, a panel at Healing the Divide — an Atlantic Forum on Health Equity said Wednesday. Policies that affect where some of Baltimore’s ...

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The Maryland General Assembly recently enacted a number of laws that will impact health care providers and health insurers in the state. Here are some of the legislative highlights from the 2018 session.

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Owings Mills-based Chesapeake Urology Associates LLC announced a partnership Tuesday with Peninsula Urology Associates, which serves patients on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and Delaware.  This partnership further expands Chesapeake’s geographic reach with new offices in Salisbury and Berlin, along with expansion into Delaware with an office in Seaford. Chesapeake ...

The Morgan State University School of Community Health and Policy Nursing Program’s Bachelor of Science in nursing has received its initial accreditation by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. The program’s Master of Science received its reaccreditation in 2017 from CCNE and the ...

President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday aimed at helping people with deadly diseases try experimental treatments, calling it a "fundamental freedom" that will offer hope and save lives.

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Anne Arundel Medical Center’s plans to create a cardiac surgery program can proceed, a Prince George’s County Circuit Court judge ruled Tuesday. The Maryland Health Care Commission approved the new program’s certificate of need last year, but both Dimensions Health ...

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Staying within the company, the board of CareFirst, Inc. has named Brian D. Pieninck president and CEO of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield beginning July 1. Pieninck, who currently serves as the company’s chief operating officer, will succeed Chet Burrell, who will retire at ...

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More than 500,000 Marylanders’ personal information could have been affected by a data breach at LifeBridge Health, the Maryland Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday. LifeBridge detected malware in March on servers hosting LifeBridge Potomac Professionals’ electronic medical records and LifeBridge ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. clung to its health insurance gains last year, an unexpected outcome after President Donald Trump’s repeated tries to take apart the Obama-era coverage expansion, according to a major government survey released Tuesday. Overall, the survey from ...