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Muntz to join GetWellNetwork as CIO
By Modern Healthcare | October 08, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
David Muntz, who recently stepped away from the No. 2 health IT job at HHS, will join GetWellNetwork as CIO in late October.
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Health law glitches: fatal or fleeting?
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press | October 08, 2013
Insurance companies and others say there's still enough time to fix the online enrollment system before uninsured Americans start getting coverage on Jan. 1.
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Seattle Children's sues after exchange plans fail to include it in network
By Joe Carlson | October 07, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Seattle Children's Hospital is seeking a court order that would remove two health plans from the new state insurance exchange because the plans don't include the hospital in their provider network.
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Reform Update: ACOs more likely to be in markets with hospital, doctor consolidation, study finds
By Melanie Evans | October 07, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
In five markets around the U.S., ACOs were caring for more than half the Medicare patients in the traditional fee-for-service program and were likelier to be in areas with more provider consolidation.
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Law of the land | Bumpy start to exchanges no surprise, but some opponents' tactics outrageous
By Henry Aaron | October 05, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Unfortunately, some opponents of healthcare reform are behaving outrageously. They are actively trying to make the law fail.
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Outliers: Quotable
By Modern Healthcare | October 05, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
“They've shut down the government over an ideological crusade to deny affordable health insurance to millions of Americans.”—President Barack Obama
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Outliers: D.C. dysfunction won't let NIH's menagerie go hungry
By Modern Healthcare | October 05, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Last week's government shutdown shuttered national parks and furloughed more than 800,000 federal workers. But Outliers was left wondering, what about the federal mice? And don't forget the federal rats.
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Private Medicaid option | Some states eye Ark. alternative expansion model
By Steven Ross Johnson | October 05, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The Obama administration's recent approval of Arkansas' alternative plan to expand healthcare coverage for low-income residents under the federal healthcare reform law bodes well for several Republican-led states looking to implement their own alternative...
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New drugs carry hefty price tags | Makers of leading-edge orphan products asked to cut prices, take smaller profits
By Jaimy Lee | October 05, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The market for drug therapies for rare diseases is becoming increasingly crowded with expensive new products, a Modern Healthcare review of FDA approval and company pricing data shows.
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House floats device tax repeal as compromise to end shutdown
By Andis Robeznieks | October 05, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
A bipartisan House measure to repeal the 2.3% medical device excise tax that helps fund the healthcare reform law has been floated as a compromise to end the federal government shutdown. Reps. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) and Ron Kind (D-Wis.) were leading a...
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