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America’s Health Insurance Plans to Test New Provider Directory

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“[N]ot all providers rely on the same method of communication,” AHIP writes in a FAQ on the partner directory. To test the pilot versions of these directory systems, AHIP has partnered with 12 health plans from commercial, Medicaid and Medicare markets in Indiana, California, and Florida.

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Parsing Common Core: An Education Program Under Fire

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The initiative’s FAQ page lays out the standards , the people involved in setting them, and how the program works. Many critical reports have surfaced—some inaccurately implying that the program is federally backed. According to CoreStandards.org, 45 states, the District of Columbia, four U.S.