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Kaiser Health News reports that states and hospital groups continue to lobby for a six-month extension of enhanced Medicaid money for states despite related cost concerns and a lack of forward progress on such an extension.
House Democrats are arguing again for the passage of a public option to compete with private health plans and reduce the deficit, news outlets report.
Senate Republican leaders are questioning Department of Health and Human Services numbers that say the effect of the new health law on premiums will likely be less than 1 percent, The Hill reports.
Five New York City hospitals "have agreed to a pilot program to divulge medical mistakes early, offer settlements quickly and use special state 'health courts' where judges will help negotiate agreements before cases go to trial," the Wall Street Journal reports.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including more details about the Obama administration's new rule on appealing rejections of health insurance claims and a just-signed law to reign in improper government payments -- of which the Medicare and Medicaid programs are responsible for the majority.
Connecticut doctors are taking sometimes drastic measures - limiting the number of Medicare patients they see or scaling back their practices - in order to cope with low Medicare reimbursements and a surging patient base.
CQ HealthBeat reports that advocates held a forum Thursday over the usefulness of comparative effectiveness research.
UNAIDS and the Stop TB Partnership joined together on Thursday at the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 in Vienna, Austria, with the goal of preventing 200,000 deaths annually from HIV and tuberculosis co-infection, Agence France-Presse reports. TB is the number one killer of people living with HIV/AIDS (Ingham, 7/22).
The criminalization of men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people in Asia is holding back efforts to contain HIV/AIDS in the region, according to a report presented Wednesday by the U.N. Development Program (UNDP) and Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health at the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010, VOA News reports. The report "linked the criminalization of homosexual behavior to an increase in the infection rate of HIV and AIDS in Asia," the news service writes (Dewan, 7/21).
Kaiser Health News obtained a summary of new rules to be released today by the Obama administration that will make it easier for consumers to appeal the denials of their health insurance claims as the White House tries to "boost political support" for the new health law
Recently laid-off workers will remain ineligible for a 65 percent subsidy of their health insurance premiums to help them keep their former employer's health insurance after a bill the Senate passed yesterday didn't include the provision, Bloomberg reports.
Organizations attending the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010 highlighted the plight of HIV-positive earthquake survivors in Haiti who are "still waiting for aid promised to them before" quake as rebuilding efforts slowly move along, Agence France-Presse reports.
News reports follow Families USA's continuing rollout of state-by-state studies on the number of small businesses that will be eligible to tax credits to help cover health costs under the new overhaul law, a vast majority according to the studies.
Reuters reports that more European countries are trying to limit what they pay for drugs in an attempt to control "runaway" health spending.
Arguments in the Michigan legal challenge to the health overhaul law began Wednesday.
In expectation of expansive new federal spending on electronic medical records, technology firms are expanding their health care businesses.
The Dallas Morning News reports on the funding climate for health care technology startups.
An analysis by Consumers Union has found that non-profit Blue Cross and Blue Shield health plans collected billions of dollars in surplus over the past decade while hiking premiums for customers.
States address a range of health issues.
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