Hospitals Facing New Payment Squeezes
News outlets report on payment issues for hospitals, including those stemming from the new health law.
Archives: Morning Breakouts
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Patients Question HIPAA Provision That Allows Use Of Patient Data For Fundraising
The federal law known as HIPAA that is meant to protect the privacy of patients "specifically allows medical centers to use patient information for fundraising activities," The Seattle Times reports.
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UnitedHealth Cut Lobbying Spending Even As Congress Finalized Health Reform Measure
The Associated Press reports that UnitedHealth Group Inc. "dialed down" their federal lobbying in the first quarter of 2010, even as Congress prepared to pass the health reform bill.
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States Struggle With Poor Dental Care
Reports show that California and Wisconsin have poor dental care, while various communities try to improve lagging dental care indicators.
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Study: Health Law Could Mean Penalties For One In Three Employers
News outlets covered analyses of provisions affecting businesses in the new health law.
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First Edition: May 24, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including the week ahead in Congress and the details of the small business tax credit.
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Lancet Examines Efforts To Reform USAID
A Lancet World Report article examines the decision to restore USAID's policy department as part of broader reform efforts at the agency.
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Feed The Future Guide For Obama Administration’s Food Security Plan Released
The Obama administration's Feed the Future initiative will focus efforts on scaling up local food production in a small number of countries, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah said Thursday during a speech outlining the principles in the Feed the Future Guide, which was released at the daylong symposium, Reuters reports (Abbott, 5/20).
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Economist Features Special Report On Water
In a special report on water the Economist examines the causes of and growing concerns over increasing scarcity around the world. "Bringing supply and demand into equilibrium will be painful, and political disputes may increase in number and intensify in their capacity to cause trouble. To carry on with present practices would indeed be to invite disaster," the magazine states. "The proportion of people living in countries chronically short of water, which stood at 8% (500m) at the turn of the 21st century, is set to rise to 45% (4 billion) by 2050," the Economist reports. "And already 1 billion people go to bed hungry each night, partly for lack of water to grow food."
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Democrats Push Three-Year Medicare ‘Doc Fix’ As Part Of Larger Tax Bill
A proposal to stop planned payment cuts to Medicare doctors for three years is in a bill extending tax cuts and lengthening unemployment benefits.
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Democrats Moving To Extend COBRA Subsidy Expansion Through End Of Year
Tucked into a $190 billion jobs and tax bill the House plans to take up next week is an extension of the subsidy to help laid-off workers pay for COBRA health insurance benefits.
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Health Leaders Discuss Polio, Alcohol, Childhood Obesity At WHA
From the 63rd World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, the Associated Press reports on what some "describe as a new strategy to get rid of" polio that focuses on developing solutions to "problems in each country, provides more WHO monitoring, like more teleconferences, and holds governments more accountable." The plans also provide "[n]ew [polio] outbreak response plans," according to the AP.
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Today’s OpEds: Wyden On Bipartisanship Health Reform; How To Spend Prevention Funds; CLASS Act
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Friday's editorials and opinions from around the country.
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New Therapies Can Turn Cancer Into Chronic Disease
Two new studies suggest that the prolonged use of two cancer drugs helped stunt the progress of the disease, a shift from the scheduled courses of treatment typically delivered to patients.
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Consumers Roundup: More Patients Choose High-Deductible Plans; Many Neglect Doctors’ Medication Directions
The number of insured Americans in high-deductible plans has risen to 10 million, but remains a small portion of the market, an insurance industry group said. Patients who discharge themselves before doctors say they are ready are more likely to return to the hospital and cost more money, a study finds.
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In Survey, Employers Say Health Reform Will Increase Costs – Somewhat
A survey of 791 employers found that most were more worried about a tax that goes into effect in 2018 more than about current changes.
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State Roundup: Genetic Testing On Campus, Texas Docs In Mass., And More
Critics question a University of California plan to offer voluntary genetic testing to students. Massachussetts hospitals invite Texan doctors to help with cancer treatment. And, among other things, a New Jersey judge upheld a plan requiring public workers to pay 1.5 percent of their salaries or more for health coverage.
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NIH Issues New Conflict Of Interest Guidelines For Researchers
The National Institutes of Health proposed new guidelines for researchers Thursday.
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