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State Highlights: State Medicaid Investigators Get More Money To Investigate...
A selection of health policy stories from Texas, Kansas, Georgia, Wisconsin and California.CQ HealthBeat: OIG Final Rule Allows Medicaid Investigators To Use Data Mining State Medicaid fraud...
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Updated Diagnostic Guidebook For Mental Disorders To Be Unveiled This Weekend
In advance of its release, the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has triggered debate and controversy surrounding the many changes included in this 947-page book....
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State Roundup: Okla. Gov. Pushes Funding Fix To Cover 9,000 On Medicaid
A selection of health policy stories from Oklahoma, Texas, California and Massachusetts.The Associated Press: Fallin Urges Last-Minute Health Care Fix Gov. Mary Fallin proposed a last-minute...
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New Psychiatric Diagnostic Manual Released
Long-awaited update of "the psychiatrist's bible" has stirred controversy.Marketplace: How Much Is The DSM-5 Worth? Controversy has dogged the new DSM-5, what people like to call "the psychiatrist's...
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State Programs, Agreements With Feds Aim At Better Mental Health Care Delivery
States seek to improve how they deliver mental health care: In Georgia, a revamp shows success stories; Connecticut seeks an agreement to better care for children with mental health problems; and in...
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State Roudup: Loophole Could Mean Calif. Docs Eat Some Costs
A selection of health policy stories from California, Kentucky, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Missouri.Sacramento Bee: Loophole In Health Care Law Could Stick Doctors With Tab A loophole...
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Viewpoints: Mass. Experience May Not Be True Test For National Health Law;...
The New York Times: Economix: Massachusetts Employees Will Keep Their Health Plans Massachusetts is often held up as a window into America's health insurance future, because it embarked on what came to...
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Weekend Reading: Mental Illness Stigma And Health Insurance Mazes
Every week reporter Ankita Rao selects interesting reading from around the Web.The New York Times Magazine: Unexcited? There May Be A Pill For That Linneah sat at a desk at the Center for Sexual...
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Viewpoints: Sen. Alexander Sees Reflections Of Oliver North In Sebelius'...
The Wall Street Journal: Kathleen Sebelius, Meet Oliver North Major news outlets in recent days have reported that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is raising...
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State Highlights: La. Grand Jury To Examine $200M Medicaid Contract
A selection of health policy stories from Louisiana, Oregon, Connecticut, Kansas, North Carolina, California, and New York.Modern Healthcare: States Delaying, Dropping Controversial Dual-Eligible Pilot...
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Viewpoints: We Need More 'Socialism'; The IRS's 'Unwelcome Role'; 'Fog Of...
Los Angeles Times: If This Health Plan Is 'Socialism,' We Need More Of It So this is what socialism looks like: Private companies competing for people's business in an open marketplace. Californians...
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Viewpoints: 'Good News' On Calif. Insurance Rates; Battle Against Dementia...
The New York Times: The Obamacare Shock The Affordable Care Act, a k a Obamacare, goes fully into effect at the beginning of next year, and predictions of disaster are being heard far and wide. ... No...
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Federal Court Upholds 10% Provider Rate Cut In Calif. Medicaid; Mich. Senior...
California Healthline: Federal Court Upholds 10 Percent Medi-Cal Provider Cut The United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld the right of California to impose a 10 percent rate...
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Calif. Docs Worry State Psych Hospital Staffing Shortage Could Harm Care
Some California doctors worry staffing shortages at state psychiatric hospitals are harming patient care.Los Angeles Times: Psychiatric Hospital Workers Warn Of Short Staffing Doctors at a second...
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Viewpoints: Obamacare Is Already Working; George W. Bush On 'Personal...
The New York Times: Is Obamacare Too Complicated to Succeed? The Affordable Care Act has been under siege since before it even had a name. Some on the right saw it as government overreach. Some on the...
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First Edition: June 3, 2013
Today's early morning highlights from major news organizations, including a number of stories detail health law implementation developments.Kaiser Health News: Will Consumers Sign On For Health Law's...
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States Grapple With Mental Health Care After Federal Inaction
Mental health legislation is taking the spotlight in states after federal lawmakers have failed so far to act. In Wisconsin, some mental health care changes gain momentum.Politico: With Mental Health...
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White House Conference Spotlights Mental Health Issues
The meeting covered a range of topics -- from the need for more training for mental health providers regarding the mental health parity law to the need for people to be more open about mental illness....
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Viewpoints: Selling Obamacare In Arizona; 'Hassle-Free' Marketplace; Seeking...
Arizona Republic: Actually, You Like Obamacare. Just Ask Brewer You may not admit it, but you are a fan of Obamacare and Gov. Jan Brewer knows it. The Republicans who run the Arizona legislature don’t...
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Viewpoints: 'Tyranny' Over Insurers; Obama's Promises; Rep. Franks's Abortion...
The New York Times: Insurance Tyranny Many of us wish that Obamacare were a simpler system, one that directly provided health insurance. Political reality, unfortunately, ensured that many people will...
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