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The Associated Press reports that some claims about financial returns on anti-fraud efforts are "sketchy" while The Hill notes that a report issued last week by the Government Accountability Office renewed concerns from many health law opponents about Obamacare's lack of anti-fraud safeguards.
The decision could lead to in-home tests for diseases like herpes. In other marketplace news, Xerox plans an overhaul of its health IT business, and health-care software maker Intermedix hires a new CIO. NPR reports on doctors who are leaving medical practice to develop technologies aimed at shaking up the health care process.
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds 87 percent of Americans want the change -- which is currently prohibited by law. (Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the Foundation.) Elsewhere, a closer look at a new demonstration program by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to bundle payments for some operations, and doctor pay increases for some specialties.
The National Cancer Information Center specialists are having less luck helping those in states where the Medicaid safety net was not expanded. Meanwhile, several Indian tribes are pushing back on their classification as large employers under the Affordable Care Act. And the supported state-based marketplaces are concerned about the future cost of using healthcare.gov.
Republican leaders in Utah have agreed to a conceptual framework for expanding the low-income health insurance program. Meanwhile, in Alaska, the state estimates 4,000 new jobs will result from expanding Medicaid.
The Associated Press examined the success of state efforts to expand Medicaid coverage and the financial repercussions.
More than a dozen states are seeing enrollment surges well beyond expectations, and officials in some of those states are concerned about costs they will encounter in the future. Also, The Fiscal Times reports on how Medicaid coverage has developed into a dual system divided on partisan lines between states that expanded Medicaid and those that did not.
A pending bill to fund the nation's highway bill may get caught up in renewed efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, which have picked up momentum after last week's release of a controversial video. In other Capitol Hill news, The Associated Press examines how the continuing troubles of the Department of Veterans Affairs are playing out in Congress.
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Health care stories are reported from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Ohio, Texas, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Florida, Oregon and New York.
In other news on military health care, the Pentagon is narrowing the finalists for a multibillion-dollar contract to overhaul the military’s health IT system, and a Florida lawmaker calls for a former naval hospital in Lake Baldwin to be repurposed as housing for elderly and homeless veterans.
Also in the news, a look at the recurring problem of out-of-network surprise charges and an article about lack of dental coverage for seniors.
The autoworkers retiree benefits trust is trying to glean how much drug makers will increase costs for specialty drugs -- and how those prices might affect everyone's bottom lines. And for one expensive hepatitis C drug, Gilead is restricting how many patients receive assistance paying for treatment.
The insurance industry consolidation is causing some concerns in Georgia. Yet despite national attention to the mergers after Aetna announced its deal to purchase Humana, UnitedHealth was focusing on its second-quarter gains. And in California, Aetna took heat from regulators for "price gouging" after it raised rates on small employers by 21 percent.
Some say the audit didn't find any real fraud, despite what government watchdogs say. In the meantime, lawmakers try to overhaul the mental health system, and teen pregnancy prevention money faces cutbacks.
As Republicans seize on a secretly-recorded video to more aggressively push abortion policy changes, Planned Parenthood's president apologized for the "tone and statements" made by a senior staffer on the tape but said the allegations of fetal organ sales are not true.
The California proposals would need federal approval and couldn't start until 2017. Meanwhile, in Colorado, officials mull switching the Obamacare marketplace's technology to the federal exchange's to stave off problems in the system.
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