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Feb 08 2010

DOTmed

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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has released detailed information on appropriations for the agency in the Obama Administration’s 2011 budget

Feb 08 2010

Reuters

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Medicare’s move in 2005 to pay doctors to do bladder cancer surgery in their offices rather than in hospitals dramatically raised the number of procedures and overall health costs

Feb 05 2010

Prices Not Major Contributor to Medicare Spending Variation

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New research published in Health Affairs finds that geographic variation in Medicare spending is not strongly driven by price variation. Utilization differences appear to be the major cause of that…

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Feb 04 2010

Wall Street Journal

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WSJ: Federal and state programs will pay slightly more than half the tab for health care purchased in the United States by 2012

Feb 04 2010

Washington Post

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Washington Post: Federal and state programs will pay slightly more than half the tab for health care purchased in the United States by 2012

Feb 04 2010

New York Times

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NYT: Federal and state programs will pay slightly more than half the tab for health care purchased in the United States by 2012

Feb 04 2010

Bloomberg

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Bloomberg: Federal and state programs will pay slightly more than half the tab for health care purchased in the United States by 2012

Feb 02 2010

The MetLife Study

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MetLife Study: New Insights and Innovations for Reducing Health Care Costs for Employers

Feb 02 2010

Washington Post

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The $915 billion health spending plan for 2011 would hire more fraud detectives to root out waste and outright thievery in Medicare and Medicaid

Feb 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The Obama administration still foresees a major health-care overhaul in its 2011 budget, estimating that the cost of the legislation will reach $743 billion over 10 years.

Feb 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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President Barack Obama’s federal budget proposal assumes that the embattled health bill will pass – but contains some back-up plans if it doesn’t

Feb 02 2010

CBO Looks at Republican Budget Proposal

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CBO analyzes a Republican proposal on federal spending, finding that the health care-related provisions would significantly reduce federal spending and national health expenditures, while increasing covered persons by an unspecified…

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Feb 01 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Mr. Obama, responding to growing public concern over deficit spending, will propose as part of his fiscal 2011 budget to freeze basic government spending, outside of national security programs

Feb 01 2010

Massachusetts Report on Provider Pricing Impact

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The Massachusetts Attorney General investigates and discovers that hospitals and some physicians have market power and consequently are able to demand high payments and those payments are the main cause…

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Jan 29 2010

MA Attorney General

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MA Attorney General: AGO releases this preliminary report based on its ongoing investigation of health care cost trends and cost drivers

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