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Nov 18 2010

LA Times

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The Obama administration on Tuesday announced new initiatives to boost the quality of medical care that Americans receive, laying the foundation for what many experts think could be one of the most far-reaching benefits of the new healthcare law.

Nov 18 2010

next.gov

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded a $230 million health IT contract to Computer Sciences Corp. for migrating key IT systems to a new service-oriented architecture.

Nov 18 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Many Medicare cancer patients with poor prognoses are receiving overly aggressive and expensive inpatient procedures in the last month of life

Nov 18 2010

Washington Post

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The government says 1 in 5 American adults suffered from mental illness during the past year. Most didn’t receive treatment.

Nov 17 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Dr. Donald Berwick, the adminstrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is scheduled to testify before the Senate Committee on Finance. Here is an advance copy of his prepared statement

Nov 17 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Promising fast action, the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is launching a series of initiatives aimed at improving medical care while reducing its cost, officials said Tuesday

Nov 17 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Home Health – until there’s more economic certainty and until the extension of benefits under health-care reform in 2014 actually kick in, it could be a choppy volume environment over the next few years

Nov 17 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Surprising Variations in End-of-Life Care

Nov 17 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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No other group will need to adapt more than physicians, many of whom fear that their independence will be curtailed and their influence will retreat.

Nov 17 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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New details emerged Tuesday about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ anticipated Innovation Center.

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