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Kentucky state lawmakers fed up with Gov. Steve Beshear's (D) recent signing of an executive order to create health insurance exchanges based on recommendations from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are blocking the state from renting office space…

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Florence (Ariz.) Community Healthcare, owned by hospital management company Initiatives Healthcare, closed Monday after less than two years of operation, according to a Florence Reminder & Blade-Tribune report.

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted on Thursday to approve a fiscal year 2013 appropriations bill that provides $71 billion in discretionary funding for HHS programs, according to an AHA News Now report.

The healthcare industry saw a 0.2 percent increase in prices from April to May, according to the latest statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Producer Price Index.

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