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Mar 16 2012

USA Today

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Home health care companies made an average 19.4% profit in 2010, a report released Thursday shows, prompting the independent board that oversees Medicare to again ask Congress to lower reimbursement rates for these companies.

Mar 16 2012

NPR.org

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Mississippi Builds Insurance Exchange, Even As It Fights Health Law

Mar 16 2012

Bloomberg

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Cigna CEO Cordani Says Court Won’t Derail Health-Care Shift

Mar 16 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Texas Medicaid Funds Cut Over Planned Parenthood

Mar 16 2012

FiscalTimes

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CBO: Big Drop in Health Coverage Unlikely

Mar 16 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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MEDPAC: Hospitals Should Get 1% Payment Update in 2013

Mar 16 2012

The Hill

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Advisory panel recommends Medicare payment cuts

Mar 15 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Under essential health benefits, each state can select a health plan to benchmark coverage for the 10 broad categories of coverage. But here’s the catch: HHS will require states to defray the costs of any state-mandated benefits not covered by the selected benchmark plan.

Mar 15 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Why America’s Doctors Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet

Mar 15 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Robots have already staked out a place in the health-care world—from surgical droids that can suture a wound better than the human hand to “nanobots” that can swim in the bloodstream.

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