Medicare Advantage Plans Draw Attention
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care will drop its Medicare Advantage plan; PolitiFact finds Pataki statement about Florida Medicare Advantage wrong.
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Former Geisinger Head To Run CMS Innovation Center
Richard Gilfillan, a former head of the Geisinger Health Plan in Pennsylvania, will run the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center that was created by the health law.
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Computer-Assisted Decisions Can Sometimes Cause Problems For Prescribing
Experts hoped computers could help doctors make treatment safer for patients, but it turns out they have side effects, too.
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Florida Likely To Seek Waiver On Medical Loss Ratio; Ariz. Cuts Back Medicaid Benefits
States address a wide range of health policy issues.
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Enzi Targets HHS Regulations, House Will Consider Medical Debt Relief Legislation
CongressDaily reports that Senate Republicans are trying to stop the health care law "one rule at a time" by seeking a vote this week on a privileged resolution "that would roll back HHS regulations on health insurance plans that existed before the overhaul bill was signed into law."
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Past Malpractice Claims Help Doctors Avoid Future Mistakes
Medical providers are using past malpractice cases to help avoid future mistakes, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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News Outlets Examine What You Should Know About New Health Law Provisions
USA Today reports on how the new health law has started helping consumers.
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Asian Countries Should Increase Rice Reserves To Prevent Food Insecurity, Report Says
A report (.pdf) released on Monday by the Asia Society and International Rice Research Institute recommends that "Asian countries should increase rice reserves to help stabilize prices and improve food security in the region which is home to about 65 percent of the world's hungry," Bloomberg reports.
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GAO, Senate Question Role Of Hospital Supplies Middlemen
Group Purchasing Organizations - brokers of supplies for hospitals - received mixed reports from the Government Accountability Office and the Senate Finance Committee.
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Malaria Vaccine Development Meeting Begins In Washington
Agence France-Presse reports on a malaria vaccine development meeting that kicks off Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
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Health Law Includes Help For Young Women With Breast Cancer
The new federal health law seeks to raise awareness among young women and their doctors about the risk of breast cancer. Meanwhile, advocates push for Medicare coverage of breast protheses.
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First Edition: September 27, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports that some campaigning Democrats are embracing the health overhaul.
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MDG Summit: Funding The Global Fund; Arab World’s ‘Own Challenges’
BusinessDay reports that following last week's Millennium Development Goal (MDG) summit at the U.N. in New York, advocates "have called on rich nations to double their pledges to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria, saying it desperately needs more money if the world is to meet the health-related Millennium Development Goals by 2015." According to the article, the advocates are concerned that the $40 billion maternal and child health initiative announced by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week at the summit "might divert money and attention from the Global Fund."
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V.P. Biden Pledges To ‘Sustain Long-Term’ Aid For Pakistan; U.S. Concerned About Aid Branding
Vice President Joe Biden and British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg recently said the U.S. and Britain would provide "'sustained long-term' support to Pakistani flood victims," Agence France-Presse reports.
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At FAO Special Meeting, Delegates Recommend Addressing Root Causes Of Food Price Escalation
"Delegates at a special U.N. meeting about high food prices Friday blamed the hikes on speculation, futures markets and national responses to crop failure," the Associated Press/Moscow Times reports (9/27).
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AP Poll: People Who Think Health Law Should Do More Outnumber Those Who Think Govt. Should Stay Out Of It
A second poll, this one from the Kaiser Family Foundation, finds public support for the health law regained some favor.
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Congressional Races Taking Shape Around Health Reform Positions
As some vulnerable Dems struggle to maintain their independence from the party's health reform agenda, the law inspired some challengers to step forward and run for congressional seats.
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