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Votes of approval, disapproval | Officials on list represent the full political spectrum
By Andis Robeznieks | August 24, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Six elected officials are included in this year's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare list, and it's an even mix: three Democrats, three Republicans; three based in Washington, three based in the states; and three...
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Reform Update: Businesses seeing self-funded plans as way to dodge ACA
By Jonathan Block and Jessica Zigmond | August 23, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The rate of self-funded health insurance among smaller businesses has remained relatively stable during the past decade, but that may change soon. Many businesses see self-funding as a way to skirt requirements of the healthcare reform law.
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Reform Update: Tavenner downplays GOP concerns over reform
By Jessica Zigmond | August 02, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Two months before open enrollment begins on the state insurance exchanges, CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner downplayed concerns from GOP lawmakers that the 2010 healthcare law will hurt jobs and expressed confidence that the employer mandate delay won't affect the law's implementation.
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Expert warns of flawed price transparency effort
By Rich Daly | June 17, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
One expert is waving a warning flag at the federal government's race to increase healthcare price transparency.
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Republicans see 'Obamacare' issues as key to 2014
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press | May 27, 2013
If Republicans were writing a movie script for next year's congressional elections, the working title might be "2014: Apocalypse of Obamacare."
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SGR hopes face tough realities | $139 billion, new payment formula still needed
By Rich Daly | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Senate confirms Tavenner as CMS administrator
By Rich Daly | May 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Marilyn Tavenner was easily confirmed Wednesday as the first permanent CMS administrator since 2006.
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It's time 'to break cycle' on SGR: Baucus
By Rich Daly and Jonathan Block | May 14, 2013
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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Doc pay reform remains a 'top priority'
By Rich Daly | May 13, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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100 Most Influential People in Healthcare - 2013 (nominees' titles and affiliations)
May 04, 2013
The nominees for Modern Healthcare's 12th annual 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare competition.
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