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Health Policy
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July 1 marks a big day for Health Policy
Scott Hensley, on NPR’s Shots blog, has a nice rundown of the health care provisions that go into effect today,…
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Healthcare.gov coming July 1
KHN’s Phil Galewitz previews the July 1 launch of a federal website he says “will give consumers a list of…
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PEJ: Reform coverage centered on politics
Six basic facts about how the media handled coverage of health care reform have been distilled from a study of…
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AHRQ asks ‘Who’s paying for rising health costs?’
The latest statistics brief out of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality address what researchers called the “growing burden…
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Pharma starts disclosing sample numbers
The Health Policy law will require drug makers to disclose the amounts of free samples they distribute, a requirement which…
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Briefing: Reporting on Health Policy going forward
A briefing with some top Washington, D.C.-based reporters on Thursday at 12:15 p.m. ET should help reporters and editors around…
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House nixes COBRA help, opens “jungle”
On Prepared Patient Forum, AHCJ Immediate Past President Trudy Lieberman examined the fallout of the Friday House vote to toss…
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Panel: Media share blame for health-care costs
The American Society of News Editors and the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making brought experts and editors together to…
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Slow-to-pay insurers may become national issue
For The News Journal of Wilmington, Del., Hiran Ratnayake dug through more than 100 complaints filed last year against the…
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Insider offers view of health innovation
Blogging for the Harvard Business Review, Simon Stevens (chairman of the UnitedHealth Center for Health Policy & Modernization) seeks to…