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health reform
Best of the Rest - 5 Stories Worth Reading
Friday, December 9th, 2011 - 10:36
Friday, December 9, 2011 - 09:43
1. The cost of switching to an insurance exchange - employees may bear the brunt of the costs if employers drop ESI plans.
2. CMS: States’ Health Spending Gap Widens - the first analysis of state-by-state spending since the recession
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Berwick Fires Back at Critics on his Way Out
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 - 16:33
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 16:15
In an interview with the New York Times on Thursday, Dr. Donald Berwick reflected on his 17 month tenure as director of the agency at the center of President Obama's health reform efforts.
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Final Medical Loss Ratio Rule Rebuffs Lobbying By Insurance Brokers
Monday, December 5th, 2011 - 11:19
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 11:09
The Obama administration has issued a stringent rule to regulate the implementation of medical loss ratios, which are requirements that insurance companies spend set percentages of their premium income on medical care, as opposed to administrative expenses.
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New CMS Head Appointed
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 - 18:37
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 18:18
Tavenner will now go through the Senate confirmation process, something which Berwick sidestepped through a recess appointment. Starting in December, Tavenner will take over on an acting basis. Although Tavenner worked closely with Berwick and is expected to manage the agency in similar fashion, observers see her as friendlier to opposition forces thanks to her background.
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Super Committee's Failure May Mean Widespread Cuts to Health Programs
Monday, November 21st, 2011 - 22:58
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 22:20
Starting in 2013 Medicare, biomedical research, and public health programs will be at risk of substantial funding cuts due to the country's fiscal crisis. The two biggest expenses on the government tab, Medicaid and Medicare, will be spared, for the most part though. Medicaid, a matching federal-state funding program would not be affected by the automatic trigger, while Medicare would experience a 2% overall reduction, seen in payments to hospitals and providers.
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Supreme Courts Will Consider Arguments About Constitutionality of Expanding Medicaid
Friday, November 18th, 2011 - 10:38
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 10:29
While the Supreme Court's decision to hear arguments against the individual mandate in health reform has received the vast majority of coverage, a decision regarding the expansion of Medicaid could have an even greater impact, according to The Washington Post..
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HHS Office of Health Reform Speaks to MSPP
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 - 15:36
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 14:55
On Tuesday, two members of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Health Reform made a special trip to the University of Maryland to update the School on the status health reform law. Jennfer Cannistra, J.D. and Kristin Young, J.D. of the aptly named Office of Health Reform shared their intimate knowledge of the many facets of the Affordable Care Act.
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Obama Administration to Announce $1B in Funding to Expand Health Care Workforce
Monday, November 14th, 2011 - 8:11
Monday, November 14, 2011 - 08:00
The Obama administration is expected Monday to announce $1 billion in grants to expand the health care workforce, from doctors to community workers, according to The Washington Post.
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Bundled Payments Show Mixed Results
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 - 10:33
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 09:53
Efforts to curb the costs of the health care system run the gamut from cutting services to insuring everyone. One of the most talked about ways includes payment reform, moving from the entrenched system of fee-for-service to something more efficient. For years experts have posited the notion of bundled payments, essentially that an episode of care engenders a flat amount of payment, not pay for each additional service performed on a payment.
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Children of State Employees Get Coverage from SCHIP in Handful of States
Monday, November 7th, 2011 - 8:29
Monday, November 7, 2011 - 08:16
At least six states now allow the children of state employees, in some cases, to enroll in the joint federal-state Children's Health Insurance Program, according to Kaiser Health News and The Washington Post. The shift was allowed under the 2010 health reform law.
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