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Apr 16 2012

The Hill

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

To alleviate some of the pressure ahead of the law’s Medicaid health coverage expansion, House Democrats included in their version of the bill a provision requiring states to pay primary care physicians no less than 100 percent of Medicare payment rates.

Apr 16 2012

Kaiser Health News

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Consumer advocates, physician groups and several Democratic lawmakers are fighting a quiet battle over a key benefit in the health-care law: tax credits to help millions of people purchase insurance.

Apr 16 2012

Wahsington Post

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Twenty-thousand physicians received emails with links to reports from Medicare showing the amount their patients cost on average as well as the quality of the care they provided.

Apr 16 2012

Fiscal Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Markets cannot work when consumers and patients have almost no information about the prices they pay for health care.

Apr 16 2012

Wall Street Journal

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People are more likely to manage their condition properly when they have more accessible, personal goals, like being able to do more at work or keep up with their kids, instead of focusing only on comparatively abstract targets like blood-sugar levels.

Apr 16 2012

Bloomberg

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EHealth Inc. and an array of online insurance brokers are eying a possible $4 billion-a-year market, after the Obama administration’s surprise decision to let them sell government-subsidized coverage under the health overhaul.

Apr 13 2012

New York Times

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At least 20 states, from Maine to Hawaii, have introduced bills that would limit out-of-pocket payments by consumers for expensive drugs used to treat diseases like cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and inherited disorders.

Apr 13 2012

PE Hub

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Accountable Healthcare Holdings Corp., a Boca Raton, Fla-based healthcare staffing provider, completed the acquisition of Med-Staff Oklahoma, a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based firm that focuses on travel nurse staffing.

Apr 13 2012

Chicago Tribune

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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sought to cast the two-year-old reform law as a vital weapon against racial disparities