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The CMS ordered three insurers to stop the marketing and enrollment of their Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans. Health Net, Woodland Hills, Calif., Arcadian Management Services, Oakland, Calif., and Universal American Corp., Houston, were sanctioned by the CMS. Health Net must stop...
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The CMS has ordered three insurers to stop marketing and enrollment of their Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans.
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HHS has announced the first round of applicants accepted into the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program under the healthcare reform law.
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Modern Healthcare's seventh annual Group Purchasing Survey shows that GPOs continue to diversify their offerings of services beyond traditional supplier contracting in an effort to address the growing demands...
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Richard Raskin, vice president of medical affairs at Genesis HealthCare Corp. in Andover, Mass., is all in favor of advance directives.
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Wonder and disappointment. Two constants in the world of science, both were felt last week after a judge's ruling closed off millions of federal dollars for human embryonic stem-cell research and threatened the future of this field of scientific study.
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Kudos to the CMS and Modern Healthcare for calling attention to the need for more standardized reporting of healthcare-associated infections to help identify and prevent them (“The infection connection,” Aug. 9, p. 6).
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