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Iowa lawmakers have deal on low-income healthcare

By Catherine Lucey / Associated Press | May 23, 2013

After staunchly opposing an expansion of Iowa's Medicaid program using federal funds, Gov. Terry Branstad has agreed to seek the funding for an alternate health plan for low-income residents.
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Overruns forcing lower payments to some providers in stopgap health program

By New York Times | May 21, 2013

The Obama administration said Monday that it was cutting payments to doctors and hospitals after finding that cost overruns are threatening to use up the money available in a health insurance program for people with cancer, heart disease and other serious illnesses.
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Struggles for ex-military | Former medics starting careers face uphill battle

By Ashok Selvam | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine

Federal and state agencies are working to make it easier for veterans to move into nursing careers as the U.S. winds down its presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Exclusion efforts | OIG pushes for monthly blacklist cross-check

By Joe Carlson | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine

Amid looming shortages in healthcare workers, one branch of the federal government is ramping up aggressive efforts to keep some of them far away from patients.
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Caught in the whirlwind | D.C. scandals could impede ACA implementation

By Jonathan Block and Jessica Zigmond | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine

A bad week for HHS turned progressively worse as a maelstrom of controversies swirling around the Obama administration now threatens to distract federal officials from effectively implementing the 2010 healthcare overhaul.
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Rule lets Medicaid fraud-control units tap federal funds for data-mining

By Joe Carlson | May 17, 2013 | Basic Web

HHS' inspector general's office has given state-based fraud-control units more power to use sophisticated data-analysis tools to recover an estimated $60 million in the next decade.
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GOP lawmakers seek GAO probe of Sebelius' fundraising efforts

By Jessica Zigmond | May 16, 2013 | Basic Web

Republican lawmakers asked the GAO to investigate HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' fundraising efforts for a private organization to help implement the healthcare reform law.
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Not-for-profit systems back support for ACA

By Melanie Evans | May 14, 2013 | Basic Web

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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C.R. Bard to pay $48.3 million to settle kickback case

By Modern Healthcare staff | May 14, 2013 | Basic Web

Medical-device maker C.R. Bard Inc. agreed to pay $48.3 million to resolve allegations that the company illegally rewarded physicians and other customers for using its radiation seeds in the treatment of prostate cancer.
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Sebelius' fundraising for healthcare reform questioned

By Jonathan Block | May 13, 2013 | Basic Web

GOP lawmakers are digging their teeth into the Obama administration's efforts to solicit help and donations for private groups working to enroll Americans in new coverage under the reform law.
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