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Favorable direction? | As prices drop, CBO lowers spending prediction
By Melanie Evans | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
It's different this time. That's what the bulls say when stock prices soar as a way of discounting warnings that what goes up must always come down.
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Managing expectations | Tarwater talks Medicaid expansion, initiatives
By Maureen McKinney | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Editor's note: As CEO of Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, N.C., Michael Tarwater leads one of the largest public hospital systems in the U.S. and faces carrying out its mission in two states that have shunned the coverage expansions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. With...
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Video Feature: Michael Tarwater, CEO, Carolinas Healthcare System (7:47)
By Modern Healthcare | May 18, 2013
Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney talks with Michael Tarwater, CEO of Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, N.C.
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Rule lets Medicaid fraud-control units tap federal funds for data-mining
By Joe Carlson | May 17, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
With states bracing for rapid enrollment growth in their Medicaid programs, HHS’ inspector general’s office has given state-based fraud-control units more power to use sophisticated data-analysis tools to recover an estimated $60 million in the next decade.
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Oregon releases benchmark report on Medicaid reform
By Andis Robeznieks | May 17, 2013
The Oregon Health Authority released its benchmark-setting report tracking the progress of the state's Medicaid transformation program, which is projected to save $11 billion over the next 10 years.
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Reform Update: ACA foes, supporters trade volleys
By Jessica Zigmond | May 17, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Democrats and Republicans played another game of political tennis this week when House Republicans served up another vote to fully repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Democrats returned a litany of reasons why the 2010 law is good for Americans.
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Information
Ariz. Senate passes budget with Medicaid expansion
By Bob Christie / Associated Press | May 17, 2013
The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate passed a state budget that includes expansion of the state Medicaid program.
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Senate confirms Tavenner as CMS administrator
By Rich Daly | May 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Marilyn Tavenner was easily confirmed Wednesday as the first permanent CMS administrator since 2006.
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Reform Update: ACO Pioneers may be mulling their options
By Melanie Evans | May 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
As the deadline nears for Medicare's first accountable care organizations to decide whether they will continue with the initiative, at least one is debating whether to leave.
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CMS tightens focus with next round of innovation awards
By Jessica Zigmond | May 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The CMS Innovation Center will apply a more focused approach for the second round of the healthcare reform law's Health Care Innovation Awards that the agency announced Wednesday.
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