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Reform Update: ACA foes, supporters trade volleys Jessica Zigmond | 5/17/13 - 3:30 pm Ariz. Senate passes budget with Medicaid expansion Bob Christie / Associated Press | 5/17/13 - 7:45 am Again, House votes to repeal reform law Jessica Zigmond | 5/16/13 - 6:30 pm Grandfathered health plans dwindling: analysis Jerry Geisel, Crain's Business Insurance | 5/16/13 - 3:15 pm CMS tightens focus with next round of innovation awards Jessica Zigmond | 5/15/13 - 2:45 pm CBO projects less growth in healthcare spending Modern Healthcare staff | 5/15/13 - 6:30 am It's time 'to break cycle' on SGR: Baucus Rich Daly and Jonathan Block | 5/14/13 - 1:45 pm 89 charged in Medicare fraud busts Associated Press | 5/14/13 - 2:45 pm Reform Update: No clear map for Medicaid expansion in red states Rich Daly | 5/14/13 - 2:00 pm Why the IRS scandal could bring down Obamacare Fiscal Times | 5/14/13 - 8:00 am

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Reform Update: IRS controversy reaches ACA

The tentacles of the Internal Revenue Service controversy have reached the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. On Wednesday, Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) introduced legislation, the IRS Accountability Act, to halt funding to the IRS for new agents enforcing the ACA....

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Window to Washington Blog: Baucus, Sebelius keep focus on implementation, not outreach

When Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, told HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that he worried...

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SGR hopes face tough realities

Rich Daly | May 18, 2013
Legislators on both sides of the aisle and on both sides of Capitol Hill are touting their early start on overhauling the Medicare physician payment...
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Struggles for ex-military

Ashok Selvam | May 18, 2013
Raymond Fletcher returned from 2� years of service in the Vietnam War as a U.S. Army helicopter medic in 1974 and started his post-military career...
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Growing scrutiny

Rich Daly and Rachel Landen | May 11, 2013
Last week's public unveiling of CMS' charges and reimbursements data for about 3,000 hospitals across the country painted an unflattering portrait of...
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Featured Commentary

Scandal outbreak

Merrill Goozner | May 18, 2013
Washington is once again in the grip of scandal fever. The Benghazi e-mails; the IRS targeting of conservative groups; allegations that HHS Secretary...
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Cost sustainability

Dr. Manoj Jain and Dr. Bill Frist | May 18, 2013
We have done it. We have decreased the increase in the cost of healthcare. Let us explain. For three decades (1980–2009), the cost of...
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Geographic disparity

Dr. Patricia Gabow | May 11, 2013
One of the most disturbing challenges faced by American healthcare is the enormous geographic variability in both access and quality. We are one...
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Medicare News

Exclusion efforts

Joe Carlson | May 18, 2013
Amid looming shortages in healthcare workers, one branch of the federal government is ramping up aggressive efforts to keep some of them far away...
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Late News: Exceptions are the rule

Rich Daly | May 18, 2013
Congress' nonpartisan investigative arm reported that 91% of hospitals paid by Medicare receive some dispensation or add-on to the program's standard...
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Medicaid News

Rally cry

Modern Healthcare | May 18, 2013
Jan Brewer, one of the fiercest Obamacare critics among Republican governors, rallied support last week for raising Medicaid eligibility in order to...
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Exclusion efforts

Joe Carlson | May 18, 2013
Amid looming shortages in healthcare workers, one branch of the federal government is ramping up aggressive efforts to keep some of them far away...
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Legislation and Regulation News

Bill expands opportunities for physician assistants in Missouri

KCUR.org (Kansas City, Mo.) | May 17, 2013
Physician assistants may soon have more opportunities to practice in Missouri. A bill headed to the Governor's desk would provide more flexibility in...
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Reform Update: ACA foes, supporters trade volleys

Jessica Zigmond | May 17, 2013
Democrats and Republicans played another game of political tennis this week when House Republicans served up another vote to fully repeal the Patient...
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