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In Morrisville, N.C., just down from the Target and Gander Mountain big-box stores and between a nail salon and dental office, North Carolina's largest health insurer opened its first retail store.
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is vowing to prevent a vote on immigration reform even though the latest reports from Capitol Hill suggest as many as 40 or 50 Republicans are willing to back some version of the legislation that passed the Senate last June.
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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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If a patient in Wyoming has a complaint about a doctor in Colorado he is seeing via teleconference, it's unclear which state's medical licensing board would investigate. Kevin Bohnenblust, an attorney and the executive director of the Wyoming Board of Medicine, calls clarifying telemedicine and...
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More is being spent per capita in West Virginia than any other state to promote public awareness of the new healthcare reform law, but advocates are concerned that those who could benefit most still won't get enrolled.
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Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's administration has filed plans to award a $66.5 million contract to build the state's online health insurance exchange to CGI Technologies and Solutions, apparently beating out four other bidders.
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El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, Calif., claimed a legal victory after a judge struck down a controversial voter-approved initiative that limited what the public hospital could pay administrators.
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For hundreds of thousands of primary-care physicians across the country, the era of unreimbursed evaluation-and-management, or E&M, care may finally be coming to an end.
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Four of Iowa's largest health systems have joined with the state's new consumer-owned health insurance cooperative plan to offer plans this fall on the new state insurance exchanges.
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Lafayette (La.) General Medical Center has begun its new role as a teaching hospital with 22 new doctors undergoing training at the private hospital as part of its takeover of University Medical Center.
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