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The first-year results from Medicare's Pioneer ACO pilot project showed all 32 of the provider participants met their quality improvement-reporting goals, but only 13 reduced costs.
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Asking 15 experts to solve a $200 billion-plus problem that has stymied federal lawmakers for decades seems challenging enough. Add to that task a deadline of less than three months, a bitterly divided Congress and a battle-weary administration.
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Two days before Independence Day, the Obama administration launched a firecracker of an announcement: It would delay by a year the employer mandate set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2014.
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National economic policies that impose harsh cuts on social programs, especially healthcare safety nets, can be lethal, literally. That's the argument made by David Stuckler, a senior research leader at Oxford University, and Dr. Sanjay Basu, a Stanford University epidemiologist, in their recent...
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The success of the president's healthcare overhaul may depend on an unlikely feat: With little time, and limited resources, the Obama administration and its allies must find and entice millions of Americans who are eligible for new healthcare coverage and might not want to pay for it.
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U.S. Supreme Court's decision to recognize same-sex marriages in at least 13 states will have effects on families' insurance status, healthcare taxes and benefits for serving the federal government.
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Nearly a year to the day after the Supreme Court ruled the reform law constitutional, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius launched her department's public awareness and outreach campaign.
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A growing number of experts fear the rising popularity of high-deductible insurance plans could backfire and undermine the accountable care movement.
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Organizers last week kicked off a privately run campaign to promote the rollout of insurance and Medicaid expansion under the healthcare reform law—a must since a divided Congress has refused to appropriate funds to conduct a broad education and outreach effort.
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When Dr. Michael Edmond learned that the Food and Drug Administration had tightened its regulations governing fecal transplants, he promptly canceled 10 scheduled appointments for the procedure.
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