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Reform Update: Research targeting post-acute costs applauded

By Maureen McKinney | May 20, 2013 | Basic Web

The CMS center charged with testing new payment and delivery models has pinpointed post-acute care as a high-cost area in dire need of novel new approaches, and experts in the field are applauding the move.
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Celebrity impact | Benefits, risks seen in hype over Jolie's disclosure

By Jaimy Lee | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine

Celebrities drive average Americans to want what they have. That powerful impulse could prove complicated for some women who fear they're at high risk for breast cancer.
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Oregon releases benchmark report on Medicaid reform

By Andis Robeznieks | May 17, 2013

The Oregon Health Authority released its benchmark-setting report tracking the progress of the state's Medicaid transformation program, which is projected to save $11 billion over the next 10 years.
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House panel marks $344M for Defense-VA EHR

By Ashok Selvam | May 17, 2013 | Basic Web

The House Appropriations Committee this week marked $344 million for the development of an electronic health-record system that would allow the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments to share the same information.
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Reform Update: IRS controversy reaches ACA

By Jonathan Block | May 16, 2013 | Basic Web

The tentacles of the Internal Revenue Service controversy have reached the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. On Wednesday, Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) introduced legislation, the IRS Accountability Act, to halt funding to the IRS for new agents enforcing the ACA.
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Window to Washington Blog: Baucus, Sebelius keep focus on implementation, not outreach

By Rich Daly | May 16, 2013

When Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, told HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that he worried Obamacare’s implementation was headed for a “train wreck,” she publicly promised to bring him into the loop.
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IT Everything: Health IT Blog — Business associates tied to big breaches

By Joseph Conn | May 16, 2013

Healthcare organizations seeking to maximize the number of patient records they can expose through a given security breach should consider contracting for professional help. I'm only being partially facetious.
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Chodor no longer CEO of Happtique; Perlman takes over

By Melanie Evans | May 16, 2013 | Basic Web

Ben Chodor resigned in April as CEO of Happtique, a healthcare mobile application marketplace owned by a subsidiary of the Greater New York Hospital Association, but remains with the company.
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Senate confirms Tavenner as CMS administrator

By Rich Daly | May 15, 2013 | Basic Web

Marilyn Tavenner was easily confirmed Wednesday as the first permanent CMS administrator since 2006.
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Reform Update: ACO Pioneers may be mulling their options

By Melanie Evans | May 15, 2013 | Basic Web

As the deadline nears for Medicare's first accountable care organizations to decide whether they will continue with the initiative, at least one is debating whether to leave.
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