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Reform Update: Panel queries AHIP, Blues Association about Sebelius' fundraising Jessica Zigmond | 5/24/13 - 4:00 pm States delaying, dropping controversial dual-eligible pilot program Rich Daly | 5/23/13 - 3:15 pm Federal appeals court hears Hobby Lobby case Associated Press | 5/23/13 - 6:45 pm Reform Update: Some big names take pass on Calif. insurance exchange Jonathan Block | 5/23/13 - 4:00 pm Rep. DesJarlais reprimanded for sex with patients Associated Press | 5/23/13 - 3:30 pm Taxpayers won't pay healthcare costs for undocumented immigrants: Pelosi Jessica Zigmond | 5/23/13 - 3:45 pm Mass. tries to retain $250 million for hospitals Boston Globe | 5/23/13 - 7:45 am HHS finds $2.2M in billing errors at Cedars-Sinai Joe Carlson | 5/22/13 - 4:00 pm Immigration bill seeks to ease rules for foreign health workers Jessica Zigmond | 5/22/13 - 6:15 pm Harkin aims to fast-track legislation on compounding pharmacies, drug tracking Rich Daly | 5/22/13 - 3:15 pm

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RAC bill getting hospital lobby's biggest push

Legislation to muzzle Medicare auditors has received the biggest hospital lobbying push this year—so far, to little effect....

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by Rich Daly and Jessica Zigmond

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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Featured Content

FDA slaps regs on fecal transplants

Maureen McKinney | May 25, 2013
When Dr. Michael Edmond learned that the Food and Drug Administration had tightened its regulations...
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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
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...
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Featured Commentary

A credible IRS is crucial

Merrill Goozner | May 25, 2013
It didn't take long for the IRS scandal to metastasize. Last week, the mid-level bureaucrat at the center of the mushrooming affair, Lois Lerner,...
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Scandal outbreak

Merrill Goozner | May 18, 2013
Washington is again in the grip of scandal fever with the Benghazi e-mails, the IRS targeting of conservative groups, and allegations that HHS...
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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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Medicare News

Calif. man gets prison in Medicare fraud plot

Associated Press | May 25, 2013
A California man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in a scheme to fraudulently bill Medicare and Medicaid more than...
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Late News: Backing out

Rich Daly | May 25, 2013
Reality is squeezing down what had been a massive pilot project targeting the disproportionately expensive care for Americans enrolled in both
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Medicaid News

States’ policies on healthcare exclude some of the poorest

New York Times | May 25, 2013
The refusal by about half the states to expand Medicaid will leave millions of poor people ineligible for government-subsidized health insurance...
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Calif. man gets prison in Medicare fraud plot

Associated Press | May 25, 2013
A California man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in a scheme to fraudulently bill Medicare and Medicaid more than...
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Legislation and Regulation News

No change of heart on Maine hospital debt

GLENN ADAMS / Associated Press | May 25, 2013
Maine Gov. Paul LePage and Democratic lawmakers had no change of heart Friday on a bill to repay a $484 million debt to Maine hospitals and expand...
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Late News: Coverage conundrum

Jessica Zigmond | May 25, 2013
As lawmakers wrestle over federal immigration reform, some are stuck on how to address healthcare coverage for some 11 million immigrants living...
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