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“This is an old idea,” Dr. Alan Flake, the study's leader, said. “People pursued it for about 60 years experimentally but we were able to do what others haven’t been able to do and some of that is related to technology."
The head of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation runs the organization in a way that's drawn scorn from his critics and praise from his supporters.
A report issued in March found that 30 percent of calls were either being rolled over to a back-up service or not being answered at all. That number has dropped to less than 1 percent.
Physicians want the government to synchronize policies for Medicare Advantage, Medicare fee-for-service and accountable care organizations. Also, Medicare next year will start issuing cards without Social Security numbers.
The state government announces schedules for two hearings and a public comment period next month before submitting the request to federal regulators. Wisconsin is also hoping to institute a premium and time limit for those getting Medicaid coverage, but the proposal is drawing complaints.
The agency asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit for 60 more days to negotiate with groups that have issues with the mandate. So far, the administration has offered little guidance on where it stands on this part of Obamacare.
Large majorities oppose Republicans' consideration of allowing states to dismantle guaranteed benefits and reject the Affordable Care Act's protection for people with preexisting medical problems, according to The Washington Post-ABC News poll. Meanwhile, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) faced a hostile crowd in a town hall meeting Monday.
Those with information on the spending negotiations say Democrats are eyeing military spending as a potential compromise to get money for the "insurer bailouts" that Republicans have been targeting for years. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times and KHN offer looks at just what exactly those subsidies are.
Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) has been working with members of the Freedom Caucus to salvage the Republican health care plan, but his fellow moderate lawmakers say he's doing it without their backing.
Conservatives seem to be coalescing behind a health plan that includes waivers allowing states to opt out of major regulations related to essential health benefits and insurance companies to charge higher premiums for patients with preexisting conditions.
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A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Editorial writers offer perspectives on these and other health policy and system issues.
Media outlets report on news from Mississippi, Georgia, New Hampshire, California, Tennessee, Florida, Minnesota, Texas, Ohio, Utah, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
In 1967, state Rep. Richard Lamm introduced legislation that would make abortion legal beyond cases when the woman's life was at stake. Media outlets also report on abortion news out of Illinois, Minnesota and Tennessee.
Experts believe immigrants and travelers, who have lost their childhood immunity by living in America for some time, are returning to their home countries not expecting to need protection from the disease. Then they come back to the U.S. infected.
Stat talks with Dr. Brian J. Druker and his patients who were some of the first to be shifted away from a scorched-earth treatment of cancer to precision medicine. In other public health news: mapping the brain's neurons, the dangers of nursery products, long-term birth control, genital mutilation and more.
Scott Gottlieb's part in getting Cephalon, a company that makes lollipops for cancer patients in extreme pain, more opioids lends itself to established concerns that the Trump administration's pick to head the Food and Drug Administration is too closely tied to the drug industry. In other news on the opioid epidemic, special schools are helping teens stay sober and the use of painkillers in the middle-aged and elderly is skyrocketing.
The doctors are hoping that in rules expected soon the federal government will ease requirements for small practices to participate in the new Medicare payment options offering higher risk and higher financial reward. Also, some hospitals are asking the federal government to make some bundled-payment programs voluntary.
Critics are mobilizing against the screening and testing requirement because they say it could unfairly stigmatize the poor and complicate an already difficult application process. News outlets also report on Medicaid news from Arkansas and Ohio.
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