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Thousands of people with serious medical problems are in danger of losing coverage under President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul because of cost overruns, state officials say.
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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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Officials from SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West downplayed any threat posed by the National Union of Healthcare Workers 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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Mountain States Health Alliance, which operates 12 hospitals in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia, will join Vanderbilt University Medical Center's network of affiliated hospitals.
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The upstart National Union of Healthcare Workers failed for a second time to win the prize of representing 45,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in California.
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Job creation at physician offices rebounded in April and helped contribute to 19,000 new healthcare jobs in April, but the figure represents a second month that the sector made a relatively weak contribution to the job market, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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In its newly released proposed inpatient hospital payment rule for 2014, the CMS plans a slew of performance-based payment changes, including a penalty program for hospital-acquired conditions and updates to the agency's readmissions reduction program that would expand the parameters for...
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Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) placed a hold on Marilyn Tavenner's nomination to head the CMS to keep the Senate from voting on it.
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Those awaiting the Obama administration's decision on whether to guarantee home-care workers at least the federal minimum wage and overtime pay could be in for a long summer.
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Arkansas lawmakers gave final approval to the governor's plan to use new federal Medicaid funding to buy private coverage in insurance exchanges. Now it's likely to draw intense federal scrutiny.
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