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Jul 08 2010

Washinton Post

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Today, 70 percent of the 48 million Medicaid enrollees are in a managed plan. States typically pay insurers a per-person rate, and the insurers, or HMOs, negotiate. But managed Medicaid has also produced a steady stream of controversies.

Jul 07 2010

BusinessWeek

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CardioNet Inc. said Wednesday that UnitedHealth, one of the largest health insurers, will not cover CardioNet’s wireless heart-monitoring devices.

Jul 07 2010

Fiscal Times

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With all the provisions in the new health care law to bend the cost curve, it seems that Congress left a couple things out: the price of medical supplies and measuring cost-effectiveness in clinical research

Jul 07 2010

Washington Post

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The health-care overhaul will require new health plans to begin providing a range of preventive health services at no cost to patients. Many people want contraception to be one of the required free services

Jul 07 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Forget about traveling to Thailand or India for low-cost surgeries. More employers and insurers are offering financial incentives to encourage workers to consider “domestic medical travel.”

Jul 07 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Obama said earlier this year that the health-care bill that Congress passed three months ago is “essentially identical” to the Massachusetts universal coverage plan – which is a damning indictment of ObamaCare

Jul 07 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The number of Americans getting screened for colon cancer and breast can cancer has risen significantly in recent years, but the CDC says even higher rates of screening could prevent thousands of additional deaths from cancer each year

Jul 07 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Curves International Inc., whose 30-minute workout for women once made it among the world’s fastest-growing franchises, seems to be running out of steam

Jul 07 2010

Bloomberg

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President Obama plans to bypass the U.S. Senate and appoint Donald Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Jul 06 2010

amednews.com

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Another 2.5 million U.S. adults joined the uninsured population as the ranks of the privately insured continued to decline, says a new report