By Modern Healthcare staff | May 15, 2013
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Congressional Budget Office analysts sharply lowered their projections for the next decade's outlays on Medicare, Medicaid and covering the uninsured under the healthcare reform law. FULL STORY »
If HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was calling health execs seeking donations, she didn't ask some of the largest not-for-profit hospital systems or their national trade group. She didn't need to. FULL STORY »
Regarding “Leap to ICD-11 not recommended: AMA board”: Our government is systematically decimating the practice of medicine in the U.S. It is past time to acknowledge the real costs and challenges of electronic documentation and the financial and physical toll our government has placed... FULL STORY »
Cigna Corp. has named its current VP of finance, Thomas McCarthy, to the role of executive VP and CFO. Effective July 12, McCarthy, 56, will replace Ralph Nicoletti, who recently announced his resignation. FULL STORY »
Republican governors backing an expansion of Medicaid continue to hit headwinds in those efforts, and it is unclear what lessons can be drawn from the outcomes experienced by two of their colleagues. FULL STORY »
Patients in western and southern Maine will lose access to local doctors and hospitals under a “backroom deal” between MaineHealth and the state's largest health insurer, according to an executive at another health system excluded from the arrangement. FULL STORY »
Just ahead of Mother's Day, President Barack Obama on Friday spoke from the White House about the ways his signature healthcare law will help millions of American women and their families. FULL STORY »
President Barack Obama is launching a new effort to rally the public around his hotly disputed healthcare law, a strategy aimed at shoring up key components of the sweeping federal overhaul and staving off yet another challenge from Republicans. FULL STORY »
Individuals who act as navigators assisting consumers in applying for health coverage through state insurance exchanges should have extensive training and exam-based certification, the trade association for brokers and agents has told the CMS. FULL STORY »
By Michael R. Blood / Associated Press | May 09, 2013
A California law that created an agency to oversee national healthcare reforms granted it sweeping authority to conceal its spending on contractors. FULL STORY »
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