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Government
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For ACA’s 2nd anniversary, go beyond talking points; look at delivery systems, innovations
With so much focus on the coming Supreme Court case, it’s easy to forget that next week (March 23) marks…
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HHS adjusts news media guidelines in response to AHCJ member concerns
The Department of Health and Human Services has revised its media guidelines, in response to some of the issues raised…
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AHRQ details spending on health care
Among recent releases from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, its data on who’s spending what on health care…
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Reporters: Federal public affairs staffers block access to information
Reporters who cover federal government agencies say they face impediments to getting information to the public because of interference from…
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Primer prepares reporters for Supreme Court review of Health Policy
Back in 2009, when critics of what was then a Health Policy bill, not a Health Policy law, muttered about…
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Case could set precedent for regulating stem cells
On Forbes.com, Gergana Koleva digs deep into the ongoing court battle between Regenerative Sciences and the FDA over the question…
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Network drives increase in painkiller prescriptions
In the latest installment of his ongoing investigation for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today, John Fauber looks for…
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AHCJ calls for accessible reporting of physician payments
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should create an easily usable and searchable database when it publishes information from…
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Medical, support network lacking for returning National Guard, reservists
National Guardsmen and reservists returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan “have been hastily channeled through a post-deployment process that…
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States responsible for health insurance exchanges for small businesses
Most of us know that in 2014, states will open health insurance exchanges (or the federal government will run a…