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Politico reports that the fight over a "doc fix" - fixing the Medicare reimbursement rate for doctors - is "straining not just doctors but also House-Senate relations" and could cost taxpayers millions in reprocessing claims.
A final regulation for a temporary program to certify organizations to sell health IT systems will be published Thursday in the Federal Register.
States deal with a variety of health care policy issues.
"President Obama will soon expand the rights of gay workers by allowing them to take family and medical leave to care for sick or newborn children of same-sex partners, administration officials said Monday," The New York Times reports.
Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, will step down from his post in July, administration officials say.
Many states prepared annual budgets based on getting enhanced federal funding for their Medicaid programs. Without those funds, they will have to cut programs to meet their budgets.
HealthCare.gov is scheduled to go online July 1 and is designed to give consumers a place to research and compare health insurance plans, Politico reports. And, insurance carriers and health care systems - such as Geisinger in Pennsylvania - are also working on customer satisfaction.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about the President's scheduled meeting with insurance executives, more details regarding health reform's implementation and the upcoming departure of the Obama administration's budget chief.
The Senate Friday passed a six-month "doc fix" to Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors, but physicians and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were quick to criticize the plan.
An expired COBRA subsidy extension to allow the recently laid off to afford to keep their former employer's health insurance and enhanced federal funding for state Medicaid programs remain in limbo as lawmakers work at a measured pace to extend other unemployment benefits.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Thursday's opinions and editorials from around America.
Los Angeles Times reports that Walgreens will stay in Caremark's prescription network after negotiations reached a settlement between the two pharmacy chains.
The (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union reports that as high-risk insurance pools are preparing to enroll the chronically ill July 1, officials should heed a similar experience in Florida.
States deal with a host of health care policy issues.
A New York judge's unusual technique - listening to the families of injured people, knowing something about medicine - for dealing with difficult medical malpractice cases will be among 20 explored with $3 million grants as part of the health overhaul.
President Obama and members of Congress are demanding that Medicare and law enforcement officials "do more to stem the wasted healthcare dollars gushing out of the Treasury," Modern Healthcare reports.
Help from the new health law may not come soon enough for many Americans.
Health leaders from around the world gathered on Friday to formally launch a new strategy for eradicating polio, Newsweek's "The Human Condition" blog reports in a post examining the challenges and successes health advocates face in attempting to wipe the virus out completely (Carmichael, 6/18).
The WHO on Friday issued "its first-ever guidance on how to use more than 240 essential medicines for children under 13," the Associated Press reports. "The data provide information on use, dosage and side effects of medicines as well as warnings about which children should not take them" and possible complications from interactions from drugs taken together, according to the WHO, the news service reports (6/19).
Former President Bill Clinton along with Mexican telecom executive Carlos Slim and Frank Guistra, a Canadian "mining magnet," on Thursday announced "a $20 million fund to help support the expansion and creation of small- and medium-size Haitian businesses," the Miami Herald reports.
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