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State-based Republican opposition to implementation of the healthcare reform law forced federal officials to scramble over the past six months to design and launch far more local health insurance exchanges than originally anticipated.
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When Sean Tinney first began college as a freshman at Auburn University, he thought about entering the healthcare field, but as a physician, not an administrator. Then somewhere between an anatomy course—“I thought maybe this is not for me”—and the realization that he...
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Some states are emulating Oregon, and others are following somewhat different paths to control Medicaid costs and improve quality of care for their low-income residents. Some are focusing first on payment and...
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The CMS on Tuesday heralded a lower prevalence of antipsychotic drug use in the nation's nursing homes, which the agency attributes to a dementia-care program it launched last year.
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A dozen providers in a low-income part of the country will receive $5.4 million in federal funding to address a number of chronic conditions that affect residents there at a more frequent rate compared with the rest of the country.
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Alabama's new law setting stricter requirements for abortion doctors won't be enforced this year.
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Alabama should have no counties left out of a federally operated health insurance exchange because three companies have proposed insurance plans and two of the companies want to cover the entire state.
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Once again, a critic who says he was reprimanded for confidentially raising concerns about doctors' pay has turned into a whistle-blower for the federal government.
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Some states that will be running their health insurance exchanges with help from the federal government are not receiving necessary information in a timely fashion, which may inhibit their ability to effectively prepare for the launch of their marketplaces, according to a study released Friday from...
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A leading proponent of Medicare reform on Capitol Hill says Congress should change the accountable care program to make sure ACOs are improving care for the sickest patients.
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