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The Obama administration used a "recess appointment" last July to appoint Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Yesterday, 42 GOP senators signed on to a letter asking that this appointment be withdrawn.
An FTC official is urging the Obama administration to clarify antitrust issues related to accountable care organizations, Bloomberg reports.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stuck to the usual talking points Wednesday as she appeared before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee in defense of implementation of the health law and the president's budget request for her agency. She also told Republicans that that there is no system by which Medicaid block grants can be created.
A roundup of research from the Archives of Internal Medicine, the CDC, The Urban Institute, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
A selection of editorials and opinions from around the country.
Health care news from across the country.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports that a Florida federal judge issued a stay of his own, earlier ruling regarding the health law, clearing the way for it's implementation -- for now -- but also making clear that the appeals process should move forward at an expedited rate.
Fla. Judge Roger Vinson issues a clarification on his ruling about the health care law, signaling that the implementation of the measure can continue provided that the government expedite its appeal.
A new World Bank plan for Africa aims to expand economies and increase job growth, "while also tackling problems of climate change, disease, food shortages and conflict," Reuters reports (Wroughton, 3/3). The approach, which was endorsed by the bank's board of executive directors on Tuesday, "shifts from a more general focus" aimed at improving economic stability and fundamentals to targeting "three key areas such as competitiveness and employment," Xinhua writes (Mutai, 3/2).
"Prompted by concerns about an unethical U.S.-sponsored study in the 1940s," the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues on Tuesday announced the formation of an international panel "that will examine whether current rules adequately protect volunteers in global clinical trials," Science's "ScienceInsider" blog reports (Kaiser, 3/1).
President Barack Obama invited congressional leaders to meet with Vice President Joe Biden in hopes of taking on longer-term fiscal issues such as Medicare spending.
As governors took to Capitol Hill this week to talk about their state budgets, Medicaid and the implementation of the health law, more attention was focused on the issues and cost estimates involved in the debate.
The New York Times reports on a study issued by the HHS inspector general that has led some experts to urge additional federal regulations.
These data are seen as a means for identifying fraud and abuse in the Medicare program.
A selection of viewpoints from around the country.
Hearings in the House and Senate Wednesday examined public and private efforts to address health care fraud.And, according to a new Government Accountability Office report, for Medicare, the funds lost to fraudulent or improper billing total $48 billion.
The Boston Globe reports that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., said the health reforms Romney oversaw as govenor of Massachusetts were "not that dissimilar" to the new health law.
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