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The American Hospital Association has urged the Obama administration to address this reimbursement issue in recommendations to Congress.
The senators are seeking health from the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General to determine if these entities, which fuction as middleman and can allow surgeons to profit from the medical devices they use on patients, are legal.
With this deal, WellPoint is signaling its interest in moving beyond its traditional health coverage business. CareMore is known for its ability to provide intense monitoring and treatment of chronically ill older patients while holding down costs.
The initiative, announced Wednesday, uses prizes and challenges to encourage accelerated research and development activities in the health IT sector.
The new deadline is Aug. 19. Meanwhile, in other policy-related news, the White House pushed back against study findings released earlier this week by McKinsey & Co. that as many as 30 percent of companies may stop offering health insurance to their employees and said the president's healthcare plan "will reduce costs overall."
News outlets report on state health policy issues.
This week's survey includes articles from Time, Huffington Post, Governing, The Root and Forbes.
Texas lawmakers seek to strip funds from public hospitals that perform elective abortion while the N.C. House approves new rules for women seeking a procedure.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports from yesterday's action in an Atlanta courtroom where oral arguments were held in an appeal related to the multi-state challenge to the health law.
In today's action, the government asked for a reversal of a lower-court ruling that struck down President Barack Obama's health-care legislation.
The U.N. Security Council "has unanimously adopted a resolution underlining the need for continued international action to halt the impact of HIV and AIDS in conflict and post-conflict situations," VOA News reports.
Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF's representative in Yemen, said the country is facing humanitarian challenges and is "absolutely in dire need of humanitarian assistance," Reuters reports.
VOA News examines advocates' concerns over funding levels for U.N. Women.
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