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A bipartisan House bill has been introduced that would require disclosure of Medicare payment information on individual physicians and other healthcare providers and suppliers, to enable the public to compare providers of services.
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Already knee-deep in healthcare reform, the nation's hospitals this week waded into other deep policy waters that could have a serious impact on how they do business: tax reform.
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Conservatives' last stand against the healthcare reform law will be a major obstacle as top lawmakers try to come up with must-do legislation to keep federal agencies running after Sept. 30.
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HHS has allowed states to spend billions more on Medicaid pilot projects in recent years than the agency's own rules allow, and the problem may grow in the future, according to a new federal audit.
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Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's administration has filed plans to award a $66.5 million contract to build the state's online health insurance exchange to CGI Technologies and Solutions, apparently beating out four other bidders.
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Three years after campaigning on a vow to "repeal and replace" President Barack Obama's healthcare law, House Republicans have yet to advance an alternative for the system they have voted more than three dozen times to abolish in whole or in part.
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Republican and Democratic leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee released the latest version of a draft bill to repeal Medicare's sustainable growth-rate formula calling for a five-year period of stable payment increases as physicians transition into new payment models. But lawmakers...
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President Barack Obama touted two developments to come out of his healthcare law: consumers will receive millions back from insurers and premiums on state insurance exchanges are less expensive.
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The Republican-led House voted on Wednesday to delay core provisions of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, emboldened by the administration's concession that requiring companies to provide coverage for their workers next year may be too complicated.
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Technology industry association leaders who testified Thursday before a House subcommittee hearing on whether legislation is needed for data breach reporting called for Congress to pre-empt state laws on data breaches. But at least one witness opposed such preemption.
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