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Jun 28, 2010
Health Care Law: Can Obama Administration Meet the Deadlines?
The process for making rules is long and rigorous, and new rules often have to go through multiple agencies and departments. It will also take many more people with specific expertise to carry out the various parts of the law, and hiring in itself can be a slow process in the federal government.
Jun 25, 2010
HHS proposes expanding Medicare
Starting Jan. 1, Medicare will cover annual wellness visits so doctors and patients can develop a personalized prevention plan that takes a comprehensive approach to improving the patient's health. Also, Medicare patients will no longer have to pay any out-of-pocket costs for most preventive services, including the annual wellness visit.
Jun 24, 2010
How Health Reform Will Impact Existing Plans
The truth is that employer-based plans, which many assumed would easily be categorized as grandfathered, will be subject to the full regulatory thrust of the new law if they are altered in ways that are standard practice in the industry. Plans that increase the percentage of costs patients must pay out of pocket — known as co-insurance — lose their grandfathered status.
Jun 24, 2010
Congress votes to spare doctors from Medicare cuts
Congress has passed a bill to temporarily spare doctors from a scheduled 21 percent cut in Medicare payments. The measure would delay cuts through the end of November while lawmakers work on a more permanent solution. The bill now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature.
Jun 23, 2010
HHS Launching Health Website For Consumers Next Week
Wish finding health insurance were as easy as shopping for an airline ticket? A federal government website that starts July 1 takes a step in that direction. The site, for the first time, will give consumers a list of all private and government health care plans for individuals and small businesses in their areas.
Jun 22, 2010
Obama Announces New Health Insurance Regulations
The Obama administration Tuesday issued new regulations to protect Americans from the insurance industry as the president met at the White House with Americans who had been denied care and challenged Republicans who are trying to repeal his healthcare overhaul.
Jun 22, 2010
Congress battles as Medicare burns
The worsening budget impasse over Medicare reimbursements is straining not just doctors but also House-Senate relations — with taxpayers facing millions of dollars in added costs for reprocessing claims.
Jun 22, 2010
Confirmation Fight on Health Chief
President Obama’s nominee to run Medicare and Medicaid, Dr. Donald M. Berwick, is a man with a mission, a preacher and a teacher who has been showing hospitals how they can save lives and money by zealously adhering to clinical protocols for the treatment of patients.
Hospital executives who have worked with Dr. Berwick describe him as a visionary, inspiring leader. But Republicans are using the nomination to revive their arguments against the new health care law, in the hopes it will help them in this fall’s elections.
Jun 20, 2010
Drug Rebate Is Mailed Out
Some participants in Medicare Part D prescription-drug plans should be on the lookout for a check in the mail. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services started sending out $250 rebate checks late last week.
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