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By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, July 31, 2009
Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) said Thursday that his panel will not mark up a bipartisan healthcare reform bill before August 7, which is the beginning of the Senate's summer recess. The panel of senators will continue to meet during the recess—and through the summer, if necessary, by videoconference, they said. While Baucus and Finance ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley appeared together on Thursday to dispel talk that negotiations had broken down, some committee members are showing frustrations.
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By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, July 31, 2009
The House Energy and Commerce Committee will again hold hearings on Friday—after meeting throughout Thursday—with the goal of completing the markup of the Tri-Committee healthcare reform bill before the House's recess officially begins today. But on the House side of the Hill, reform has been—and is likely to be throughout August—anything but quiet.
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By: Les Masterson, for HealthLeaders Media, July 30, 2009
Government health promotion and prevention programs for pre-Medicare and Medicare populations could save the country as much as $1.4 trillion over 10 years—and add on average as many as 6 years on Medicare beneficiaries' lives, according to a new report.
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By: Karen M. Cheung, July 31, 2009
Although the majority of Americans support healthcare reform, more people are changing their minds as the healthcare debate heats up, according to a new study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health issues research foundation.
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By: Andrea Kraynak, for HealthLeaders Media, July 30, 2009
Many providers assume that reporting errors (and refunding identified overpayments) discovered while self-auditing will protect those claims from RAC review. Not so, says CMS.
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By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, July 31, 2009
Nearly half of 24 recommendations from the General Accounting Office last year to prepare for a flu pandemic have not been implemented by the responsible agencies, the GAO said in a report yesterday. "Much more needs to be done, and many gaps in planning and preparedness still remain," which have "become even more pressing in light of the very real possibility of the return of a more severe form of the H1N1 virus later this year," the GAO's report said.
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By: Heather Comak, for HealthLeaders Media, July 30, 2009
Baystate Medical Center made insulin safety a priority after rolling out its bedside medication bar coding program in September 2008.
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By: Elyas Bakhtiari, for HealthLeaders Media, July 30, 2009
A few physicians were offended by President Obama's recent insinuation that they would put their own financial interests ahead of the well-being of their patients. But that doesn't mean he was wrong about the larger point.
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By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, July 30, 2009
While no easy answers exist on how to tackle the obesity epidemic, the public health community may want to take pages from the playbook on eliminating smoking.
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