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Medical device giant Medtronic spent $1.07 million in the first quarter of the year to lobby Congress, including on health issues such as a provision of the new health law that will extract up to $3 billion a year in fees from device makers.
News outlets report on health fraud investigations.
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog reports on the Federal Trade Commission's 'red flags' rule and whether doctors should be exempt.
Some politicians and hospital administrators worry that the new health law will cause rural facilities to lose revenue, bucking the trend of Washington's political establishment's long support for rural hospitals, the Omaha World-Herald reports.
News outlets report on tobacco issues, including a loophole in the children's health law that benefits the tobacco industry.
The American Medical Association is launching an ad campaign urging Congress to end a 21 percent cut to Medicare doctor reimbursement rates, as more doctors continue to opt out of the federal health care program.
Companies are betting that cash incentives will make employees want to lose weight and get healthier in other ways, but some are skeptical, The Associated Press reports.
Findings could suggest that even if patients and insurers save money from shorter hospital stays, overall costs may increase with a need for later admission.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about how insurance regulators have missed a deadline for setting standards on premium spending rules.
Democrats can't agree on extensions of some unemployment benefits, a subsidy for health insurance for laid-off workers and a "fix" of Medicare physician payments.
Democrats are calling town meetings to tout the benefits of the new health law to seniors, Republicans calling for repeal. Polls show Americans divided.
Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., will stand in the way of a proposal to attach a drug reimportation proposal to his food safety bill, "which he claims could derail the whole food safety effort," The Hill reports.
Federal lawyers filed a brief in support of San Francisco's requirement that employers contribute to a city plan for providing health care, saying the Supreme Court need not rule on the issue.
A sampling of opinions and editorials from around the country.
Also, Oregon and Massachusetts seek new ways to pay for public employees' health costs.
Since the legislation beame law, the Better Busines Bureau has noticed an uptick in scams.
Kaiser Health News reports that the insurance industry - traditionally a state-regulated industry - is facing new federal scrutiny under the health overhaul.
Some small businesses may get financial help as part of the health overhaul that could cover up to 35 percent of companies' premium costs for insuring employees in the form of new tax credits.
"The World Bank said on Friday it has written off $36 million of Haiti's remaining debts to the lender with the help of contributions from 13 countries," Reuters reports. Haiti owed money to the bank's International Development Association (IDA), the fund for the "poorest borrowers," the news service writes.
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