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Rally cry
By Modern Healthcare | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Late News: WellPoint elects Swedish to three-year board term
By Jonathan Block | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Late News: Exceptions are the rule | Hospital payment system full of adjustments
By Rich Daly | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Late News: ACA sales push begins | Administration launches outreach efforts to educate public on reform
By Jessica Zigmond | May 11, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Late News: SEIU secures win | But NUHW chief vows to keep focus on Kaiser, may challenge results again
By Ashok Selvam | May 04, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Rate change: CMS payment schedule proposal already drawing fire
By Jessica Zigmond and Rich Daly | April 26, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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Late News: Doctor boost | Immigration bill could raise healthcare workforce
By Rich Daly and Jessica Zigmond | April 20, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Late News: Safety woes | FDA finds deficiencies at 31 compounding factories
By Joe Carlson | April 13, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Late News: Temporary reprieve | Despite hike to reimbursement rate, cuts still loom
By Jonathan Block | April 06, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Late News: Healthcare may take hit | Obama's plan for Social Security squeezes seniors
By Rich Daly and Jessica Zigmond | April 06, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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