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Fire spreads | Congress wants more on Accretive
By Melanie Evans | May 05, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Accretive Health faces a congressional inquiry as executives moved to defend the company's business practices following a highly critical report from Minnesota's attorney general.
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Lawmakers request client list from Accretive
By Melanie Evans | May 02, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Members of the U.S. House asked Accretive Health's CEO for a list of clients and information on the company's policies on compliance with federal emergency room access, patient privacy and debt collection laws.
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Dems press for openness on essential benefits
By Jessica Zigmond | February 06, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A small group of House Democrats expressed concern about HHS allowing states to determine the definition of essential health benefit packages.
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Lawmakers seek hearings on medical devices
By Jessica Zigmond | October 12, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A small group of House Democrats has asked two influential House committees for hearings to examine medical devices that have developed serious defects after being implanted in patients.
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Squeezing drug costs | Rx spending targeted in Dems' deficit-cutting plans
By Rich Daly | July 25, 2011 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Will an eventual deficit-reduction deal include savings from changes to federal prescription-drug programs? A growing number of Democrats are discussing that possibility and pushing their preferred approaches.
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Criticisms of FDA dismissed as ‘promotional'
By Rich Daly | July 20, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Recent analyses that concluded the Food and Drug Administration's device review process was overly burdensome and creating unnecessary obstacles merely amounted to “promotional pieces,” according to Democrat-requested analyses.
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Democrats to McKinsey: 'Prove it'
By Rich Daly | June 17, 2011
Democrats from the White House on down are pushing back hard on a recent study concluding that up to 30% of employers providing health insurance coverage to 180 million workers will drop it after more provisions of the 2010 federal healthcare law are implemented in 2014.
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Republican lawmaker presses for date on essential-benefits rule
By Jessica Zigmond | June 13, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
During a hearing on regulatory reform Monday, the chairman of a House oversight committee pressed an HHS official for a release date for the agency's proposed rule on the healthcare reform law's essential-benefits provision.
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Waxman, Pallone release analysis examining impact of GOP plan for Medicare
By Jessica Zigmond | June 03, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Two House Democrats on Friday released a state-by-state analysis from their staff showing how the Republican-proposed plans to change Medicare and Medicaid would affect constituents in each U.S. congressional district.
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Melanie Evans Of Interest Blog
Unfunded mandate: Extreme edition
May 27, 2011
The Congressional Budget Office threw up its hands at California Congressman Henry Waxman's recent request for budget projections should funds for health reform adoption cease altogether.
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