Kathleen Sebelius news and information

Washington is once again in the grip of scandal fever. The Benghazi e-mails; the IRS targeting of conservative groups; allegations that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius shook down healthcare companies to promote the insurance expansion in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: The...
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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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The chairmen of two House Ways and Means subcommittees this week pressed HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to address privacy concerns regarding workers who will help consumers buy health coverage through state insurance exchanges.
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Republican lawmakers asked the GAO to investigate HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' fundraising efforts for a private organization to help implement the healthcare reform law.
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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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If HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was calling health execs seeking donations, she didn't ask some of the largest not-for-profit hospital systems or their national trade group. She didn't need to.
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Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that collectively billed the taxpayer-funded program for roughly $223 million in bogus charges in a massive bust spanning eight cities, federal authorities said Tuesday.
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GOP lawmakers are digging their teeth into the Obama administration's efforts to solicit help and donations for private groups working to enroll Americans in new coverage under the reform law.
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The New Jersey delegation to the American Medical Association's House of Delegates meeting next month wants the AMA to “educate” the CMS that the appropriate use of templates and cutting and pasting within an electronic health-record system is not tantamount to fraud.
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The ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Saturday said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may be violating federal law in her fundraising efforts to help implement the 2010 healthcare overhaul.
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