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Warning didn't change for-profit dialysis drug use
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite a strong warning from U.S. regulators in 2007, for-profit dialysis centers still gave their kidney failure patients more of a certain anemia drug than non-profit centers in 2008, says a new study. The researchers write...Tags: Boston, Medical Specialization, Dialysis, Medicare, Medical Research
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John David Dyche: Medicaid expansion: evidence and alternatives
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear’s decision to expand Medicaid came mere days after the most significant study of the issue concluded that extending Medicaid coverage to the previously uninsured “generated no significant improvements in...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Manhattan (New York City), Lotteries
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Emanuel to shift retired city workers to Obamacare
Clout StreetMayor Rahm Emanuel plans to start reducing health insurance coverage next year for more than 30,000 retired city workers and begin shifting them to President Barack Obama's new federal system. The move is aimed at saving the city money and comes as...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Economy, Business and Finance, Health Insurance, Interior Policy, Health Care Reform (2009)
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Marilyn Tavenner confirmed as CMS administrator
Marilyn Tavenner, formerly Virginia's Sec. of Health and Human Resources, has been confirmed as the new administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. She will also be responsible for oversight of the insurance reforms and marketplaces in the...
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Healthcare for Angelina Jolie -- and everyone else [Blowback]
We applaud Times columnist Robin Abcarian for shining the light on the inequities in our healthcare system in response to Angelina Jolie’s recent announcement about her prophylactic mastectomy. When Jolie made her medical decision, she had at her...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Plastic Surgeons, Health Care Reform (2009), Medicare
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Charges by Peninsula hospitals vary widely
On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services landed a bombshell on the public with its release of FY 2011 numbers that revealed how much 3,000 hospitals around the country charged Medicare for the 100 most common in-patient procedures....
Tags: Ceremonies, The New York Times, Culture, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Hospitals and Clinics
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US Senate confirms Tavenner as Medicare/Medicaid chief
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Marilyn Tavenner, a former nurse and hospital company executive, as the first full-fledged administrator for the Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs since 2006. In a rare show of...Tags: Elections, Health Insurance, Medicaid, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC
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Senate confirms Tavenner to run health insurance programs with bigger budget than Pentagon
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — A former intensive care nurse with a businesslike approach to a politically divisive public policy area won Senate approval Wednesday to run Medicare and other major health insurance programs. By an overwhelming 91-7 vote, the...Tags: Health Insurance, Washington, DC, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Eric Cantor, Healthcare Laws
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Senate approves Obama choice to head Medicare
WASHINGTON – In an unusual break in the partisan warring over healthcare, the Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Obama's choice to oversee the mammoth Medicare and Medicaid health programs. Marilyn Tavenner, a former hospital executive and...
Tags: Elections, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Medicare, Eric Cantor
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Hospital revenues up, along with charity care
Hospitals in the region generally showed strengthened bottom lines in 2012, even as demand for charity care grew, a new report on the state of Pennsylvania's hospitals shows. Spending on charity and unpaid medical bills ticked up last year, but...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Health Insurance, Medicaid, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medicare
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Attorney General Marty Jackley says South Dakota part of national settlement with drug company
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Attorney General Marty Jackley says South Dakota will get more than $1 million as its share of a national settlement with a pharmaceutical manufacturer that allegedly distributed substandard drugs. Jackley says South Dakota...Tags: National Government, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Government, Politics
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Rising revenues to shrink deficit rapidly through 2015: CBO
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The deficit is shrinking considerably more quickly than previously thought, the Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday in a report that could sap Congress' sense of urgency to find further budget savings. In one fell swoop,...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Gross Domestic Product, Fannie Mae, Congressional Budget Office, Mortgages
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