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Arkansas' Medicaid expansion—potentially a model for many other states—has begun to advance in the legislature and supporters are optimistic about its prospects.
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Apparently swayed by insurers and lawmakers, the CMS backtracked on a plan to cut Medicare Advantage payments to insurers by 2.2% in 2014 and instead decided to give them a 3.3% increase.
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For four straight years, orthopedic surgeons have topped the Modern Healthcare/Modern Physician annual physician compensation survey, and the incoming president of the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons says this has helped make the specialty a target of scrutiny.
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Medical groups need to tell their stories on how federal regulations are affecting their operations and it would be helpful if the physicians in those groups contributed financially to lobbying efforts, according to speakers at the American Medical Group Association annual conference, which ended...
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Funding cuts from the state of New York are expected to sock publicly funded hospitals, particularly SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which has less than five months before it could face insolvency.
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After meeting with congressional leaders on Friday, President Barack Obama said the nation will get through the period of steep and automatic budget cuts known as sequestration, but it will be painful process.
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As doctors and hospitals struggle to make new records systems work, the winners are big companies that lobbied for the health records legislation that allowed their sales to soar.
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President Barack Obama has renewed a proposal to lower the amount that the federal government pays for drugs taken by low-income seniors, but it faces formidable opposition.
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After a lengthy lobbying effort by not-for-profit hospitals to preserve their tax-exempt status, three Illinois hospitals are waiting on refunds totaling nearly $10 million for taxes paid while the battle was raging.
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The Illinois State Medical Society is supporting a bill that would raise physician license fees 67% to stabilize operations of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation's medical unit.
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