Budgeting and Planning news and information

Falling closely in line with the Obama administration's analysis last month, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the policies in President Barack Obama's fiscal 2014 budget proposal would reduce Medicare spending by about $364 billion over 10 years, compared with the...
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Learn how to best utilize your existing rehabilitation resources by objectively reviewing and making small changes to your department, staff, outcomes and financials in order to maximize efficiency.
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As the National Institutes of Health faces about $2.5 billion in federal funding cuts next year (PDF), the American Society of Hematology emphasized the effect those reductions will have on...
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Republicans in the House of Representatives responded to President Barack Obama on Monday, proposing a new 10-year, $2.2 trillion blueprint for avoiding the looming "fiscal cliff."
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Leaders of a family medicine group are warning federal lawmakers against cutting graduate medical education budgets and funding for primary-care residency programs in particular.
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Louisiana's physicians are complaining about a "lack of detail and preparation" as LSU embarks on budget cuts that affect training programs for the state's future physicians.
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LSU healthcare executives have told university officials that downsizing throughout the Louisiana State University public hospital system creates an $83 million budget shortage in medical school programs.
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After a 40-year hiatus, malaria is returning to Greece. Some 70 cases have been reported there this year, and at least 12 people appear to have been infected in the country. (The others picked up the disease elsewhere.)
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A $160 billion net decrease from prior projected federal healthcare spending estimates helped slow somewhat the federal government's expected accumulation of debt over the coming decade, the CBO says.
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It's like watching a trailer to a horror movie. You know something bad is going to happen. You just don't know when.
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