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The GOP presidential hopeful is also engaged in a battle with Hillary Clinton over voters from Puerto Rico. Elsewhere in presidential race news, a claim by Ben Carson about welfare is fact-checked.
The study involves the Medicare Advantage program, and officials hope it will lower out-of-pocket costs for chronically ill patients who seek high-value services and providers. Also in news about Medicare pilot projects, an Iowa insurer reports that the accountable care organizations there saved money.
Meanwhile, 12 states participating in a test program are evaluating its success for managing the costs and care for Americans who are eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare.
The rise is for a popular plan CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield plan. Meanwhile, Iowa employers see a rise in their rates too, and Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin react to increasing rates there.
Advocates say the health law policies offer new choices and financial relief for struggling Indian hospitals and clinics. But on the flip side of the issue for Native Americans, one tribe is fighting its designation as a large employer under the law because of the requirements to provide coverage to workers.
This month, Congress has a full plate as members seek to fund the government for the fiscal year that starts in October. But conservatives are calling for an end to government funding of Planned Parenthood, and GOP leaders are trying to find a way to avoid a government shutdown.
With tens of billions of dollars lost each year through improper payments to doctors and medical facilities, the federal government is adopting a “more aggressive strategy” for targeting fraudulent claims.
The order requires employees be provided at least seven paid sick days a year.
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Health care stories are reported from California, Massachusetts, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Ohio, Texas and New York.
New York City finds contaminated water at a facility where four contracted Legionnaires' disease and the prisoner death toll rises to eight in Illinois. Meanwhile a mystery gastrointestinal illness strikes 220 at an Arizona jail.
Meanwhile, an inspector general report finds “serious” problems with enrollment data among the wider Department of Veterans Affairs issues delaying care.
With an uptick in Medicare fraud, The Los Angeles Times offers tips to seniors for avoiding becoming a victim, while Reuters reports on how health care costs should factor into your retirement planning.
The daily prescription medication has had mixed reception from medical professionals and gay communities, with some calling it an "end to the HIV epidemic" while others see it as a "party drug."
In other children's health news, thousands of landlords have not properly filed their rental units with Maryland's lead registry, and a new study examines why some kids get allergies and others don't.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton will kick off a push on women's issues, Ben Carson appeals to evangelicals with positions on abortion and health care while a presidential run by Vice President Joe Biden, still grieving his son, will be influenced by his "emotional energy."
The negotiations between Beth Israel Deaconess and Lahey Health follow a number of high-profile mergers in recent months. In other health care business news, autoworker contract talks continue to look at a health-care co-op across the industry, a hospice chain in the South settles a whistleblower suit and Oscar, an insurance start-up, is profiled.
The price of Zarxio, made by Novartis, will likely be 15 percent lower eventually than Amgen's Neupogen -- but The Washington Post says that the actual spending on the drugs in the short term will be much closer. Pharmaceutical companies are bracing for a barrage of biosimilar drugs that could cut into their profits. Elsewhere, more seniors find themselves in the Medicare Part D "doughnut hole," and a hedge-fund manager vows to keep challenging drug patents.
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