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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 Reform Update: ACO Pioneers may be mulling their options Melanie Evans | 5/15/13 - 3:00 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

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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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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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Featured Content

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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Pushing for payment

Jaimy Lee | May 11, 2013
Some hospitals have been using low-dose CT scans in recent years to screen patients at high risk for lung cancer even though most payers, including...
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Insurers

Kylanne Green to lead URAC, and other moves

Modern Healthcare | May 18, 2013
URAC, a Washington-based healthcare measurement and accreditation organization, has named Kylanne Green president and CEO, effective July 22.
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Celebrity impact

Jaimy Lee | May 18, 2013
Celebrities drive average Americans to want what they have. That powerful impulse can even influence grave healthcare decisions and could prove...
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Premiums and Benefits

Patient engagement's obstacle: human nature

Joseph Conn | April 11, 2013
Is patient engagement over-hyped? The chief scientist for pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts won't go that far, but years of experience from a...
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More employers dropping insurance: study

Jonathan Block | April 11, 2013
Rising premiums have driven a steady decline in employer-sponsored health insurance since 2000, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study...
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Medicare

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

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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Wellness and Prevention

Jolie's disclosure of preventive mastectomy highlights dilemma

New York Times | May 15, 2013
Actress Angelina Jolie has focused public attention on breast cancer by announcing that because she carries a cancer-causing mutation, she has had a...
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IOM report questions steep cuts in salt intake

Ashok Selvam | May 14, 2013
Maintaining moderation in sodium consumption is key, according to a new Institute of Medicine report that supported past research and reiterated that...
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