KHN's Mary Agnes Carey speaks with Jackie Judd about negotiations on Capitol Hill to avoid the "fiscal cliff" and just how close --or far apart --Democrats, Republicans and the White ...
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December 18, 2012 3:26 pm by Mitchell, Russ | 0 Comments
Sam Lewis turned 65 in the nick of time. For a year, he'd been broke. His Brentwood, Calif., general contracting business had gone bust. He couldn't make payments on his ...
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The Supreme Court famously upheld most of the Affordable Care Act in June. But in a year or two we may see another riveting Supreme Court drama growing out of ...
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December 14, 2012 11:15 am by Eric Whitney, | 0 Comments
Two years and $8.4 billion into the government's effort to get doctors to take their practices digital, some unintended consequences are starting to emerge. One is a lot of unhappy ...
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December 10, 2012 4:20 pm by Phil Galewitz, | 0 Comments
The Obama administration answered a key question from governors on Monday with a clear "no": States may not expand Medicaid only part of the way and still get the full ...
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Two-thirds of office-based physicians plan to apply or have already applied for meaningful use incentives for using electronic health records (EHRs), a government survey found. However, only about a quarter ...
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The federally-run health insurance exchanges will be financed with a surcharge -- capped at 3.5 percent of monthly premiums in 2014, according to proposed regulation released Friday. ...
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News outlets covered the Saturday meeting of the American Psychiatric Association aschanges were approved to its manual of mental disorders.USA Today: Psychiatrists Approve Vast Changes To Diagnosis ManualAsperger's is out, ...
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The justices could consider same-sex marriage, which would affect health benefits for federal employees and possibly Medicaid.The Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle: Gay Marriage Before Supreme Court? Cases WeighedThree weeks after ...
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Two methods federal officials use to report Medicaid expenditures don't match up, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Thursday. ...
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November 29, 2012 8:10 pm by Taylor, Stuart | 0 Comments
If you think that the Affordable Care Act has surmounted all of the major legal attacks its opponents could come up with, think again. Critics of the federal health law ...
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Seven health care institutions participated in a quality-improvement project advanced by the Joint Commission and the American College of Surgeonsto reduce colorectal surgical-site infection rates. During a two and a ...
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November 28, 2012 1:20 pm by Rau, Jordan | 3 Comments
In the past, the only thing a patient was sure to get after a hospital stay was a bill. But as Medicare cracks down on high readmission rates, hospitals are ...
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HHS' office of the inspector general this year continued its steady march upward in the number of new criminal cases it helped file and the amount of misspent federal healthcare ...
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A two-year payment hike for primary care doctors who treat Medicaid patients, called for by the healthcare law, might not happen without a struggle in Florida. Meanwhile, Kansas waits to ...
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