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While Medicaid doctors’ fees vary by state, they are generally far below those paid by private insurance plans and Medicare, which serves seniors. A two-year pay hike was included in the Affordable...
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2013/05/18 23:06
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Hospitals hoping to attract patients and build goodwill are teaming up with medical-screening companies to promote tests they say might prevent deadly strokes or heart disease. What their promotions...
2013/05/18 12:09
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The information allows drug makers to know which drugs a doctor is prescribing and how that compares to a colleague across town. They know whether patients are filling their prescriptions -; and...
2013/05/18 12:08
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The U.S. health-care law's projected tax bite on businesses with more generous health benefits is dropping as medical spending slows and employers look to rein in the cost of coverage. The 2010...
2013/05/17 21:51
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They were hypocrites. In the legislative session that ended this month, the House's GOP majority shot down a bipartisan Senate plan that would have accepted $51 billion from Washington, D.C. over the...
2013/05/17 20:28
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The state will evaluate the plans to ensure they offer what the reform law calls "essential health benefits," such as coverage for preventive care, and meet other requirements. "We were pleasantly...
2013/05/17 19:17
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The financial health of Maine’s hospitals has landed at the center of State House debate this spring as lawmakers tussle over whether Maine should expand its Medicaid program under the federal health...
2013/05/17 12:19
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2013/05/17 11:15
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AUGUSTA, Maine — A sharply divided legislative committee voted Thursday to support a Democratic proposal that ties an expansion of Medicaid to Gov. Paul LePage’s top priority of the legislative...
2013/05/17 07:08
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The chairman of the House tax-writing committee has been laying the groundwork for advancing an overhaul of the tax code to scale back deductions and reduce rates. … Another idea gaining popularity...
2013/05/16 22:33
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Get a good backgrounding in Medicaid from the Kaiser Family Foundation at kff.org/medicaid/. Florida's House and Senate worked as a team on some significant issues, including ethics reform, teacher...
2013/05/16 20:49
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Somewhere between 13 and 20 percent of kids in the United States experience some sort of mental illness, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That adds up to...
2013/05/16 20:04
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Medicare & Medicaid News Marilyn Tavenner Confirmed to Head Medicare, Medicaid After Six Years of Senate Inaction Jennifer Haberkorn of Politico Pro discusses the confirmation and the future for the...
2013/05/16 19:16
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WASHINGTON (CNN) - House Republicans are expected to vote Thursday to repeal President Obama's 2010 health care law. This will be the third time the House has voted to overturn the Affordable Care...
2013/05/16 19:16
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The Affordable Care Act is sure to survive the latest vote scheduled for today by the House of Representatives to repeal it -- since the Senate doesn’t plan to take it up and President Obama would...
2013/05/16 15:33
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The Lake County school district is challenging fifth-graders at six elementaries to shut off the TV, computer games and cellphones in order to prep for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test next...
2013/05/16 15:19
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It’s easy to write off these votes as pure political spectacle with no substantial meeting. Members of Congress can tell their constituents that they voted to repeal Obamacare and move on to other...
2013/05/16 10:08
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Some restaurant operators are scaling back expansion plans because of uncertainty about the expense of insuring employees under the new federal health-care law. The concerns are especially acute among...
2013/05/16 04:50
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TULSA, Okla. — The new, 12,000-square-foot Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa features exhibits on Guthrie's life and includes Oklahoma's only permanent exhibit on the Dust Bowl. The Guthrie exhibit...
2013/05/15 22:49
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As nurse practitioners lobby to expand their authority and scope of practice in many states, a New England Journal of Medicine study, released Wednesday, documents the deep chasms in how the two...