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Following a Food and Drug Administration cancer warning, insurance providers are curtailing or considering limits on coverage of procedures using the laparoscopic power morcellator. Also, a Seattle medical center and the maker of medical scopes allegedly tied to so-called “superbug” outbreaks are being sued. And a former doctor pleaded guilty to federal charges related to a hepatitis C outbreak in Nevada.
The Associated Press looks into the field of patient advocates, explaining the work they do and exploring whether they can save money. Also, a new study finds that even as many consumers face higher medical costs, fewer are contributing to health savings accounts.
Meanwhile, in Montana, a Senate panel will hold a hearing next week on a measure to expand the state-federal low-income health insurance program.
But a Fox News poll finds that more voters still say their families are worse off because the health law costs them money.
When Congress returns from its break, the Senate must take swift action so the congressional intervention can be completed by April 15 -- otherwise physicians will face a 21 percent reduction in their Medicare payments. News outlets report on some of the issues connected to this legislation.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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A selection of health policy stories from Texas, New York, Florida, Indiana, Vermont, Minnesota, North Carolina, Connecticut, Montana, Nevada and Kansas.
North Carolina lawmakers also will consider abortion-related legislation that would place more restrictions and requirements on physicians.
The Federal Trade Commission reached an agreement with the south Georgia health system in this four-year hospital antitrust case that has been a subject of national attention and a Supreme Court ruling.
A VA-authorized treatment program at an Arizona hospital was shut down after its director said that suicidal veterans weren't receiving appropriate care. This comes on the heels of a Defense Department study on suicide rates that Sen. Joe Donnelly said reinforces the need for Congress to enact changes. And a VA hospital in Seattle is poised to add a new building dedicated to mental health treatment.
Employment experts say monitoring employees' mental health status raises a variety of complicated issues and questions about how much employers should know.
Elsewhere, the Food and Drug Administration issues guidance on how to study abuse-deterrent painkillers, and measles vaccinations are up after a recent outbreak scare.
The Department of Health and Human Services will hold claims until April 15 even though the 21 percent reduction in Medicare physician reimbursements was scheduled to kick in April 1.
The indictment charges the New Jersey senator with intervening on behalf of a Florida eye surgeon, who also was a high-dollar contributor, to help resolve Medicare billing disputes. It also alleges he pushed a port security deal in which the surgeon had a financial interest and helped the doctor's foreign girlfriends obtain travel visas.
"We're going to push back," the governor said when speaking about options if the Supreme Court rules later this year to strike down federal subsidies to consumers in states that didn't establish their own insurance exchanges. Also in news about those marketplaces, Minnesota lawmakers are looking at a plan that would end a long-standing program to help people get insurance and transfer them instead to the state exchange.
The Florida House and Senate have advanced competing budget blueprints, and the Senate measure includes a Medicaid expansion plan. News outlets also offer updates on expansion efforts in Kentucky and Alaska.
About 36,000 of an estimated 4 million people who are eligible have taken advantage of a second chance to sign up for coverage under the federal health law, with almost four weeks until the deadline. Meanwhile, The Washington Post's Fact Checker examines the president's assertion that the law has averted 50,000 hospital deaths and The Associated Press looks ahead to the innovation waivers that states can get beginning in 2017.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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