Consumers: How Will Health Reform Affect Insurance Premiums?
A prevailing question in the wake of the health overhaul is whether it will lower
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House Markup Of Supplemental Spending Bill That Includes Haiti Relief Delayed One Week
A supplemental spending bill that is expected to include earthquake relief aid for Haiti will be considered by the full House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee during the week of April 26 and will not be written this week as several aides and members had anticipated, C.W. Bill Young, the committee's ranking Republican from Florida, said, CQ Today reports."We were going to try to go to the full committee next week," Young said on Thursday, noting, "I think that's slipped a week."
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Health Care A Key Factor In Some Congressional Races
Doctors are running for Congress and a third party will challenge some Democrats who opposed the health overhaul.
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Ga. Couple Allegedly Took Medicare, Medicaid Payments While Patients Were Shorted Food, Medicine
A Georgia couple was arraigned on Medicare, Medicaid fraud charges involving three nursing homes they ran. Meanwhile, in Florida, officials say they are receiving an increase in tips about fraud from a Miami hotline.
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State Roundup: Calif. Hospitals Billing Questioned; N.Y. Hospitals Among The Weakest Financially In The Nation
States struggle with various health care policy issues.
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Senate Committee Targets Claim Rejections By Health Insurers
A Senate committee has sent letters to two more insurance companies that have denied coverage for nuclear stress tests, imaging tests that are used to identify heart-attack causing artery blockage.
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Michigan Medical Equipment Suppliers Unhappy About Medicare Competitive Bidding
Crain's Detroit Business reports on a regulatory change by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that "could put a crimp on hospital-based medical home product subsidiaries and hundreds of other Michigan-based vendors," an industry that has been growing.
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First Edition: April 19, 2010
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports that explore and analyze issues related to the implementation and impact of the health reform law.
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Health Insurance Roundup: N.Y.’s High Costs, COBRA Concerns, High-Risk Pools
News outlets are covering various aspects of the health insurance industry, especially in light of health reform.
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Health Reform Rhetoric Heating Up Congressional, State Campaigns
From California to Pennsylvania, in Senate, House and Attorney General races, candidates are trying to use the health law to their political advantage.
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Coburn Casts Doubt On Health Repeal This Year; Health Groups Lobbying On Implementation
The Republican senator said that Republicans can only "nip at" the law until they have more clout in Congress.
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West African Health Experts To Meet To Address Health In Region
More than 150 health experts from West Africa will meet in Freetown, Sierra Leone, next week for a multi-day gathering aimed at addressing health issues facing people in the region, AfricaNews reports.
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U.N. Secretary-General Calls On International Community To Adopt New Initiatives To Reduce Maternal, Newborn Mortality
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced a new initiative aimed at improving reproductive, maternal and newborn health on Wednesday at a meeting of international leaders, in an effort to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for reducing maternal deaths, Inter Press Service reports (Suozzi, 4/15).
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COBRA Subsidies Continued, Medicare Cuts Delayed
President Barack Obama signed legislation Thursday extending extra unemployment benefits through May, including subsidies to help laid-off workers buy health insurance under so-called COBRA rules.
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Obama Extends Hospital Visitation Rights, Medical Decisions, To Gays And Other Non-Family Members
President directs HHS to prohibit hospitals from discriminating in visitation policies.
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Three-Day Meeting In Kenya Examines Ways To Bolster Disaster Preparedness Across Africa
To succeed in efforts to reduce poverty in Africa, countries need to make disaster preparedness a priority in national development plans, Margareta Wahlstrom, U.N. deputy emergency relief coordinator, said Wednesday during the Second Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Africa, the Daily Nation reports.
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State Round-Up: Penn. Medicare Advantage; N.J. Cuts Immigrant Care; Hospitals Face Hardships
Meanwhile, a Pennsylvania court ruling addressing issues with a state malpractice fund.
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