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Legislators on both sides of the aisle and on both sides of Capitol Hill are touting their early start on overhauling the Medicare physician payment system. However, those claims of progress will soon run into hard realities: No one has yet come up with a concrete plan to address the biggest...
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Marilyn Tavenner was easily confirmed Wednesday as the first permanent CMS administrator since 2006.
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus opened the panel's first hearing in six years on Medicare physician pay with assertive rhetoric about scrapping the hated sustainable growth-rate formula this year. .
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Physician advocates see signs of progress in the Senate Finance Committee's hearing Tuesday—the panel's first in six years on replacing Medicare's physician payment system.
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The 300 nominees for Modern Healthcare's 12th annual 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare competition.
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As healthcare providers and analysts continue to digest more than 1,400 pages of the CMS' recent inpatient prospective payment proposed rule, they are analyzing how the agency would implement a new payment methodology for Medicare disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) payments next year.
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President Barack Obama on Tuesday said implementing the health insurance exchanges “is still a big, complicated piece of business,” but that the federal government's revised—and significantly shorter—application form will make it easier for people to enroll.
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The Senate Finance Committee voted Tuesday to advance Marilyn Tavenner's nomination to be CMS administrator, clearing the way for a Senate vote.
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Amid a generally warm bipartisan welcome today, Marilyn Tavenner fielded questions and concerns over implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act from members of the Senate Finance Committee.
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has scheduled a confirmation hearing next week to consider President Barack Obama's nomination of Marilyn Tavenner to be CMS administrator.
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