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Jan Brewer, one of the fiercest Obamacare critics among Republican governors, rallied support last week for raising Medicaid eligibility in order to draw federal funding under the healthcare law.
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WellPoint shareholders last week elected newly minted CEO Joseph Swedish to a three-year term on the company's board of directors. Three directors resigned in the days leading up to the May 15 annual meeting, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Dr. Lenox Baker...
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Congress' nonpartisan investigative arm reported that 91% of hospitals paid by Medicare receive some dispensation or add-on to the program's standard payment system.
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Just ahead of Mother's Day, President Barack Obama spoke from the White House about the ways his signature healthcare law will help millions of American women and their families.
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SEIU-United Healthcare Workers downplayed any threat posed by the National Union of Healthcare Workers last week before defeating their upstart rival a second time for the right to represent the 45,000 healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente in California.
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While the CMS' proposed payment schedule for 2014 includes small increases in Medicare payments for acute- and long-term care hospitals, it would change reimbursement for facilities serving high numbers of the uninsured, drawing fire from public hospitals.
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A bipartisan Senate immigration bill could boost the nation's healthcare workforce in addition to expanding coverage to millions of newly legal residents.
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Air filters marked with dark-amber stains, unexplained variations in drug purity, patients' complaints dismissed without investigation: all were among the deficiencies cited at 31 drug-compounding factories inspected in the past seven weeks by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Insurers and their stockholders howled with delight after last week's decision by the CMS to reverse Medicare Advantage cuts. But they may be in for a rude awakening. Medicare Advantage is still facing a 10-year, $156 billion reduction mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,...
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When the president delivers his spending blueprint this week, he is likely to dust off ideas for healthcare cuts he has proposed before. Liberal advocates, though, are girding for a new wrinkle for seniors.
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