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Atlanta's Grady Hospital Agrees to Provide Dialysis For Illegal Immigrants
(Matching tags: illegal immigrants,Atlanta,Grady Memorial Hospital,healthcare reform) After months of negotiations, Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta has arranged treatment for 38 end-stage renal patients, mostly illegal immigrants, to receive free dialysis, according to a report by the ... -
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New Poll Shows Support Slipping Again For Healthcare Reform Law
(Matching tags: healthcare reform) After bumping up in a July poll, public support for the healthcare reform law in a new poll is back to its May levels, according to a report by Kaiser Health News. ... -
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More than 50M Americans on Medicaid, 16M More Due under Reform Law
(Matching tags: Medicaid,healthcare reform) More than 50 million Americans are on Medicaid, up at least 17 percent since the recession began in Dec. 2007, according to a survey of state data by USA Today. -
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Anthem Gets California's OK for Higher Rates, Having Backed Off Startling Rate Increase that Influenced Reform Debate
(Matching tags: WellPoint,healthcare reform) California regulators approved a rate increase for Anthem Blue Cross that was hefty but still much lower than the proposal that set off a firestorm of criticisms during the healthcare reform debate in ... -
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University of Iowa Law School Offers Free Course on Healthcare Reform Act
(Matching tags: healthcare reform) The University of Iowa College of Law is offering an online, 14-week course on the implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 free of charge to anyone interested in participating. ... -
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Healthcare Reform Opponents Rev Up Ad Campaigns for November Elections
(Matching tags: healthcare reform) A political group affiliated with former top GOP officials is airing more than $2 million in TV ads against politicians such as Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), who is running ... -
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White House Lists 10 Ways Health Reform Will Reshape Practice of Medicine
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,accountable care organization) Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, and colleagues listed 10 ways they believe the healthcare reform law would reshape the practice of medicine in an article in the ... -
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8 New Taxes Coming From ObamaCare
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,Blake Curd,ObamaCare) ... go into effect in the next few years, mostly as a result of the healthcare reform law. ... -
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7 Key Elements Hospitals Should Consider When Selecting a GPO
(Matching tags: GPO,Amerinet,cost savings,healthcare reform) ... of healthcare reform, GPOs will be an important component to how healthcare organizations will drive down costs to survive economically. ... -
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HHS Releases $32M to Improve Rural Health
(Matching tags: rural health,healthcare reform) The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced more than $32 million in funds have been released to increase access to healthcare in rural areas. ... -
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Pro-Reform Lobbyists Redrafting Message as Polls Show Increasing Interest as Election Issue
(Matching tags: healthcare reform) Lobbying groups backing healthcare reform are abandoning claims that the new law would reduce the deficit and are now stressing promises to "improve" the deficit, according to a report by the Hill. ... -
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Health Insurer Trade Group Spends Big on Lobbying Even After Reform Passes
(Matching tags: AHIP,lobbying,healthcare reform) America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group of health insurers, spent $2.3 million on lobbying in the second quarter of 2010, which covers the three months immediately following the passing of healthcare ... -
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All Eyes on DSH Payment Cuts: The Future of DSH Payments in Healthcare Reform
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,VMG Health,hospital valuation) Healthcare reform, with its potential to reduce levels of uncompensated care, may seem like a way for hospitals to increase their bottom lines. However, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) ... -
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Hospital Operator Stocks on the Rise After Medicaid Extension Package Moves Forward
(Matching tags: Medicaid funding,healthcare reform,hospital finance) The share prices for hospital operators rose yesterday after a Senate cloture vote moved the $16 billion Medicaid extension package closer to a vote, according to a Wall Street Journal report. -
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8 Observations on Healthcare Reform With Mark Stensager of Pennsylvania's Guthrie Healthcare
(Matching tags: Guthrie Healthcare,healthcare reform,Mark Stensager) Mark Stensager is CEO of Guthrie Healthcare System, a three-hospital system in Sayre, Pa. that is integrated with the Guthrie Clinic, a 229-physician group. Here he makes some observations about healthcare ... -
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Chuck Lauer: 10 Predictions on How Healthcare Will Change in the Next 10 Years
(Matching tags: hospital business,Chuck Lauer,healthcare reform) 1. Prepare for seismic changes. The healthcare system will be quite different from the system we have today. At this juncture in our history there is simply too much pressure building for a dramatic change. ... -
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Hospitals Prepare for $160B in Cuts by Focusing on Bringing Down Costs
(Matching tags: hospital cost reduction,Medicare reimbursement cuts,healthcare reform,hosital finance,Summa Physicians,Denver Health) The recent healthcare reform laws passed in Congress requires major cuts for hospitals — approximately $160 billion over the next 10 years. These cuts, especially in the face of a down economy, have the ... -
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Some Delegates Blast AMA for Supporting Reform, as Membership Falls
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,AMA,hospital associations) Amid reports of declining membership, a number of delegates at the AMA Annual Meeting earlier in the week blasted AMA leadership for supporting the healthcare reform, which notably lacked tort reform and ... -
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Senate Fails to Pass Fee Fix; Claims Processing Under 21.3% Cut Begins Today
(Matching tags: practice management,physician fee fix,healthcare reform) The Senate failed to pass a six-month fee fix as part of its jobless benefits package, which needed 60 votes to pass but received only 56, according to a report by the Washington Post. -
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Physician Fee Cut to Start Friday, Following Senate's Decisive Defeat of Fee Fix, Other Spending Provisions
(Matching tags: physician fee fix,healthcare reform) Implementation of the 21.3 percent cut in Medicare physician fees is due to kick in on Friday, following a lopsided defeat of the fee fix provision in the Senate Wednesday, as part of a package extending ... -
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Hospital Industry Leader to Know: Karen Ignagni
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,AHIP,insurance companies,Karen Ignani) Karen Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans, is a vocal representative of American insurance companies and a staunch opponent of President Obama's healthcare reform plan. ... -
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Health Law's Controversial Payment Board Holds Promise But May Backfire
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,reimbursement,Medicare) The Independent Payment Advisory Board created by the health reform law is a promising way to preserve the Medicare program and halt skyrocketing medical inflation, but it may not elicit its expected savings ... -
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Big Medicaid Cuts Possible Next Year, With Federal Support Due to End
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,Medicaid,legislation,state funding) States may be forced to slash Medicaid reimbursements yet more next year, after generous federal enhancements are due to end, according to a report by Kaiser Health News. -
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New York Times' Report Says Dartmouth Atlas Flawed
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,hospital spending,Dartmouth Atlas,flaws,hospital quality) The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which tracks wasteful hospital spending across the country, has methodological flaws casting doubts on its conclusions, according to a report by the New York Times. ... -
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Lawsuit Challenges Ban on Physician-Owned Hospitals in Health Reform Law
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,lawsuit,physician-owned hospital,Physician Hospitals of America,moratorium,Texas Spine & Joint) A federal lawsuit is being filed against the health reform law's ban on new physician-owned hospitals and expansions of existing facilities, according to a release by Physician Hospitals of America, a ... -
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Public Hospitals Face Enormous Challenges under Health Reform
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,Medicaid,uncompensated care,public hospitals) To survive health reform, public hospitals will have to start operating more like private hospitals or else dramatically cut costs, according to a report by the Texas Tribune. -
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Report: $5B for High-Risk Pool Not Enough to Cover All Uninsured Americans With Pre-Existing Conditions
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,funding,high-risk pools) A recent policy analysis by the National Institute for Health Care Reform suggests that the $5 billion allocated to operate temporary high-risk pools for uninsured Americans with pre-existing conditions ... -
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Kaiser Study: Federal Government Will Pick Up Bulk of States' Share of Medicaid Expansion
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,impact,Medicaid expansion,state budgets) A new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation predicts that states will bear only a small part of the financial burden of Medicaid expansion provisions set in place by the healthcare reform law, with the ... -
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HHS Files Motion to Dismiss Virginia Challenge to Insurance Mandate
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,lawsuit,Virginia,HHS,insurance mandate) The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking to dismiss the state of Virginia's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law to require most Americans to have health ... -
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6 Reasons Why Healthcare Reform Won't Reduce ED Overcrowding
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,emergency department,ER overcrowding) Even though health reform will allow 32 million previously uninsured Americans to get regular care from physicians, many of these patients are expected to continue crowding into emergency departments. ... -
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More Physicians Pursue Concierge Model, Stop Accepting Insurance
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,Medicaid,concierge medicine,physician practice models) A small but growing number of physicians are dropping their insurance-based practices in favor of so-called concierge models in which patients pay an up-front annual fee and premium rates in return for ... -
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Democrat Wins Pennsylvania House Seat on Anti-Health Reform Stance
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,Pennsylvania,politics,Mark Critz) A Democrat opposing health reform won the special election for the late Democratic Rep. John Murtha's seat in a conservative district in Pennsylvania, according to a report from the Washington Post. -
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Earliest Health Reform Provisions Intended to Win Over Skeptical Public
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,insurance pools,tax incentives,prescription drugs) Concerned about the public's lingering doubts about health reform, the White House has speeded up implementation of several provisions in hopes of turning doubters into believers, according to a report ... -
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Sharp Rise in Tests, Procedures in Cities Where Costs Were in Check
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,Medicare,healthcare costs,Utah,Intermountain healthcare) Many areas of the country that had low healthcare spending have been showing a sharp increase in the number of procedures and tests following introduction of new ASCs, cancer treatment centers and diagnostic ... -
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Congress Losing Interest in Bills to Follow up on Health Reform Law
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,antitrust,rate increases,health insurers) Democrats in Congress are losing interest in several healthcare bills meant to follow up on the reform law, as members of both chambers face challenging fall election campaigns, according to a report by ... -
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Revision of Official Estimate Puts Health Reform Cost Over $1 Trillion
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,CBO,cost,budget) A new revision of the cost of the health reform law puts the price tag at more than $1 trillion over 10 years, with the addition of $105 billion in discretionary spending that Congress still would have ... -
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HHS Secretary Lists Reform Provisions About to Go Into Effect
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,Medicare,HHS,health insurance) A letter to congressional leaders from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius lists the first provisions of the health reform law that will be carried out soon, according to a report by AHA News Now. -
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How Accountable Care Organizations Will Operate Under Healthcare Reform
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,reimbursement,integration,accountable care organizations) The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as the health reform law, contains more than a thousand pages of often fairly obscure provisions, but Section 3022 has particular significance ... -
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Senator Warns Insurers May Skirt New Minimums on Patient Care Costs
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,Kathleen Sebelius,insurance companies,Jay Rockefeller,medical loss ratio) Insurers should be prevented from tweaking the reported amounts they spend on medical care to comply with the new healthcare reform law, according to a letter from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) to Department ... -
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CMS: Medicare Claims Must Be Submitted Within 12 Months of Date of Service
(Matching tags: CMS,healthcare reform,reimbursement,Medicare fee-for-service) Changes mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will require all Medicare fee-for-service claims to be submitted within 12 months (one calendar year) of the date of service in order ... -
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Obama Administration Asks Insurers to Allow Young Adults to Stay on Parents' Policies Sooner Than Mandated
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,insurance companies,coverage expansions) With college graduations starting, the Obama administration will ask insurers to allow young adults to say on their parents' plans until age 26 rather than wait until this standard is required on Sept. ... -
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Arizona Latest State Refusing to Create Risk Pool for Pre-existing Conditions
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,Arizona,high-risk pools) Arizona has become the 19th state to reject a federal invitation to set up a high-risk pool to cover patients with pre-existing medical conditions under health reform, according to a report by the Arizona ... -
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Three Ways Healthcare Reform Will Impact Healthcare Providers
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,transparency,management,patient experience,bundled payments,Marshall Steele,risk-based compensation,patient-reported outcomes) The recently passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will have a far-reaching impact on the delivery and management of healthcare. The new rules and regulations are still being crafted; however, ... -
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Reform Law Stopped Construction on 27 Physician-Owned Hospitals
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,physician-owned hospitals,Physician Hospitals of America) Ongoing construction on 27 new physician-owned hospitals has ended because of a provision in the health reform law banning new hospitals that open after the end of the year, according to Molly Sandvig, ... -
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Healthcare Reform Could Enhance Physician Efficiency in Several Ways
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,physicians,efficiency) Several provisions in the healthcare reform law could make healthcare more efficient and responsive, according to a report by the Washington Post. ... -
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Premier Spending $86M to Enhance IT for Accountable Care Organizations in Health Reform
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,quality,information technology,Premier) The Premier healthcare alliance will spend $86 million in the next three years for enhancement of IT to accommodate accountable care organizations and other new delivery models under health reform, according ... -
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Democrats, Insurers Expected to Battle as Healthcare Reform Implementation Takes Shape
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,HHS,insurance companies,WellPoint,expanded coverage,premiums,rate reviews) As The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act enters the implementation phase, politicians and health insurers are expected to battle over as to how new rules and regulations should roll out, according ... -
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Texas Hospital Expects to Lose $25M in First 10 Years of Reform
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,Texas,Midland Memorial Hospital) The new healthcare reform law will have a $25 million "negative impact" on 321-bed Midland (Texas) Memorial Hospital over 10 years, according to a report in the Midland Reporter-Telegram. ... -
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Health Reform Law Will Change Payments to Hospitals for Patient Safety
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,quality reporting,medical errors,reimbursments) The health reform law will shift from making payments of hospitals for reporting quality indicators to reducing payments to hospitals with the highest rates of medical errors and infections, according ... -
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Moody's Says Health Reform Will Stretch State Budgets
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,financial impact,Moodys,Medicaid expansion) A new report by Moody's Investors Services predicts that new obligations on states to cover more Medicaid recipients under health reform will become "financially burdensome" in the long run, according ...
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