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Aug 13 2010

The Economist

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The Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services lose more than $60 billion a year to scam artists, according to the non-profit Coalition Against Insurance Fraud – in what has become a massive black hole in government spending

Aug 13 2010

govhealthit.com

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CMS is readying a set electronic accounting and processing tools that will help authenticate, track and manage payments to health care providers participating in the federal meaningful use financial incentive program.

Aug 13 2010

Fiscal Times

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New study shows the use of IT in a group of California hospitals actually has resulted in higher costs, higher levels of nurse staffing and higher patient complications.

Aug 13 2010

Fiscal Times

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Emergency room nurse Erin Riley suffered bruises, scratches and a chipped tooth last year from trying to pull the clamped jaws of a psychotic patient off a doctor’s hand at a suburban Cleveland hospital

Aug 13 2010

Bloomberg

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The University of California, Berkeley, won’t tell about 700 students the results of genetic tests performed on their saliva, after the state health department barred the institution from proceeding.

Aug 13 2010

phili.com

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But a local hospital group says the fastest-growing part of what hospitals call “bad debt” – basically, uncollectible bills – is money owed by patients who have insurance

Aug 13 2010

USA Today

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The new health overhaul law aims to end all annual dollar limits on health insurance policies by 2014. Federal regulators contend such limits can leave policyholders “virtually uninsured” for the rest of the year once caps are hit

Aug 13 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Compliance by health insurers with the medical loss ratio provisions in the new healthcare reform law may cost those companies more than analysts have predicted,

Aug 13 2010

Wall Street Journal

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What counts as a “federal tax” in insurer-land? That’s the latest question facing regulators charged with turning the health-care overhaul law into actual rules.

Aug 13 2010

Washington Post

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Only in Washington could the government raid one entitlement program to finance a brand-new one and still claim that deficits have been reduced and entitlements have been reformed.