House lawmakers have postponed today's scheduled vote on a spending bill for at least a week in light of Republican leaders' failure to gather enough votes to approve the legislation, according to a report from The Washington Post.
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American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization delegates have passed a resolution outlining issues with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including the way the reform law addresses union members' multiemployer health insurance plans.
The portion of U.S. voters who favor most or all of the proposals included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act dropped to 39 percent this month from 51 percent in January, according to a CNN/ORC International poll.
Former employees of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., have filed a lawsuit alleging the hospital fraudulently billed Medicare for several years, according to a Tennessean report.
Emergency physicians' perceptions predict certain emergency department performance measures, including patient flow indicators, according to a study in the Emergency Medicine Journal.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) and the state's medical association applauded the decade-old state medical liability reform law earlier this week, according to a report from The Monitor.
Obama administration officials said Tuesday the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act "data hub" is complete and ready for the launch of the new health insurance exchanges, according to a report from The Washington Post.
The new health insurance exchanges created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will offer more coverage options to retired people who are under 65, the threshold for Medicare eligibility, according to a report from The New York Times.
Potential adult Medicaid beneficiaries in states that have expanded coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are expected to be generally healthier than current Medicaid beneficiaries, according to a study published in Annals of Family Medicine.
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has filed a suit against the state of Nevada for allegedly giving psychiatric patients from a state-run hospital a one-way ticket to California for care.