Despite the government shutdown, the health insurance exchanges established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act opened for enrollment today, according to a CMS news release.
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Starting today, the federal government will enact cuts to non-essential functions, following Congress' failure to come to agreement over a continuing resolution to fund the government past Sept. 30. Last night, the Senate again stripped the House's one-year delay of…
In 2012, Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University received nearly $1.2 billion in damages after a federal jury determined Marvell Technology Group in Santa Clara, Calif., had sold semiconductors that used technology developed by Carnegie without a license. It was one of…
The Senate has voted to table House Republicans' amendments to a spending resolution, including a one-year delay of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's implementation and a provision repealing the healthcare reform law's medical device tax.
House lawmakers have passed an amended spending resolution that would delay the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's implementation by one year and repeal the healthcare reform law's medical device tax.
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Only 40 percent of U.S. adults are aware of the health insurance exchanges opening Tuesday and the tax subsidies available to help people pay for health plans purchased in those marketplaces, according to a survey conducted by The Commonwealth Fund.
The California Medical Association and other advocacy groups have sent a petition to the Supreme Court asking for a review of a lower court's decision to allow the state to make cuts to Medicaid reimbursements.
All charges have been dropped against a physician arrested in April in connection with an alleged kickback scheme at the now-closed Sacred Heart Hospital in Chicago, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
In a suit brought forth by the American Civil Liberties Union to contest the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's subpoenas of prescription records from state pharmacies, the DEA argues the records have no constitutionally protected privacy.
Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health threatened to sue Dirne Community Health Center in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, after it announced a name change to Legacy Health Sept. 9, according to a Spokesman-Review report.