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Regulatory
Supreme Court preserves ACA in 7-2 ruling that latest challenge doesn’t have standing
by Robert King | Jun 17, 2021 The Supreme Court ruled that a collection of red states do not have standing to challenge…
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Financial
New round of Medicare readmission penalties hits 2,583 hospitals
by Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News | Oct 2, 2019 Medicare cut payments to 2,583 hospitals Tuesday, continuing the Affordable Care Act’s eight-year…
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Hospitals
House Votes Overwhelmingly To Kill Obamacare’s Tax On Medical Devices
July 25, 2018 – Julia Cohen | Reporter A bipartisan majority in the House voted to repeal President Barack Obama’s 2.3…
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Financial
Millions choose IRS fines as more affordable than health coverage
By Abby Goodnough Clint Murphy let the deadline for getting health insurance by the new year pass without a second…
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Financial
Why The ‘Cadillac Tax’ Will Drive Healthcare Costs Higher For The Middle Class
By Robert Pearl, MD The Affordable Care Act (ACA), despite its laudable policy goals, contains a provision that could negatively…
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Financial
Medical Device Tax Repeal Vote Expected This Fall
By Sean Hackbarth When Senators come back to Washington, D.C. this fall, one thing on their plate will be repealing the…
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Financial
How the presidential race is making the GOP’s health care ideas even worse
By Scott Lemieux Every major national Republican is sure that they want to repeal the Affordable Care Act. They are…
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Financial
2.5k hospitals penalized by CMS for high readmissions: 10 things to know
By Heather Punke In the fourth year of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, 2,592 hospitals will face penalties to their…
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Financial
Medicare bundled payment firm secures $50 million investment
By Bob Herman Remedy Partners, a company that helps hospitals and physicians with bundled payment programs, has raised $50 million from Bain…
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Financial
Health Insurance Companies Seek Big Rate Increases for 2016
By Robert Pear WASHINGTON — Health insurance companies around the country are seeking rate increases of 20 percent to 40 percent or…
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Financial
House set to repeal Obamacare tax on medical devices
By Tom Howell Jr. The GOP-led House is set to repeal Obamacare’s medical device tax this week, forcing Democrats either to…
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Financial
Medical device tax: House Ways & Means schedules markup for repeal bill
By Brad Perriello The powerful Ways & Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives is slated to convene a…
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Financial
Transition to risk: The future has arrived for health systems and physician groups
By Paul Jawin, JD and Lisa Fraser, MHA The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Federal government agency…
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Financial
House Democrats float another medical device tax repeal bid
By Brad Perriello House Democrats float another bid to repeal the medical device tax, mirroring a similar Senate bill that…
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Boxer: Curbing medical errors will save thousands of lives, billions of dollars per year
April 28, 2014 by Arezu Sarvestani Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) calls for new solutions to prevent hospital errors that put patients at needless risk,…
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