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CBO projects less growth in healthcare spending
By Modern Healthcare staff | May 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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.
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Not-for-profit systems back support for ACA
By Melanie Evans | May 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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.
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Technology mandates ruining primary care
May 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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...
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Cigna promotes McCarthy to CFO post
By Rachel Landen | May 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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.
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Reform Update: No clear map for Medicaid expansion in red states
By Rich Daly | May 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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.
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Anthem-MaineHealth plan called a 'backroom deal'
By Bangor (Maine) Daily News | May 13, 2013
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.
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Reform Update: Obama touts reform law's benefits for women
By Jessica Zigmond | May 10, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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.
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Obama wades back into the healthcare debate
By Julie Pace / Associated Press | May 10, 2013
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.
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Reform Update: More training, certification urged for navigators
By Jonathan Block | May 09, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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.
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Calif. exchange granted secrecy
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.
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