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Obama Administration Approves One Texas Health Waiver, Rejects Another
The Department of Health and Human Services has approved one waiver expanding Texas' Medicaid managed care program, but has rejected another that bars certain providers, namely Planned Parenthood, from a family planning program.
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Coverage Of Bariatric Surgery Is Spotty For Obese Kids
Experts in pediatric obesity say that caution is warranted, but some physicians see the operations as offering a safe chance to take off significant weight and avoid harmful disease.
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Berwick: Don’t Blame Medicare, Medicaid. It’s The Delivery System
The former Medicare administrator says the U.S. health care system "isn't built for modern times," but the health care law will help rein in costs and improve care.
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Transcript: Donald Berwick on Medicare, Medicaid, ‘Rationing’ and Who Decides
Edited selections from KHN's interview with former CMS Administrator Donald Berwick.
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GOP Candidates Dispute Gingrich, Romney Records On Individual Mandate
At Saturday night's debate in Des Moines, the GOP presidential candidates spent a considerable amount of time discussing the 2010 health law. In the debate's most talked-about moment, Mitt Romney offered to bet Rick Perry $10,000 that what Perry was saying about Romney's book wasn't correct.
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Document: GOP Payroll Tax Bill – Summary, Text Of Health Care Sections
On Friday, Dec. 9, House Republicans unveiled the "Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act," which avoid the scheduled cut to Medicare reimbursement rates for physicians - the "doc fix."
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Florida Eyeing Cuts To Medicaid
The response of Gov. Rick Scott's administration to the soaring cost of Medicaid is drawing fire from hospitals, and HHS may refuse to approve the plan.
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Why Observing Prostate Cancers Is Gaining Ground On Surgery
An expert panel suggests doctors shouldn't call most low-risk prostate tumors cancer at all.
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My ER Doctor Is Billing Me For What Insurance Didn’t Pay, What Can I Do?
KHN's "Insuring Your Health" consumer columnist Michelle Andrews answers a question about what to do when you're billed by an out-of-network doctor for an in-network hospital visit.
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