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Premier PHC, Encompass partner to improve patient outcomes

Premier Patient Health Care and Encompass Home Health & Hospice are pleased to announce a new partnership that actively manages the quality and cost of care for patients across multiple settings, in order to meet quality benchmarks and improve patient outcomes.

21 Jun 2014

Calif. marketplace officials raise concerns about initiative's effects on rate regulation

Backers of the ballot measure say it will not disrupt how the exchange works in the state but allow the insurance commissioner more authority over premium increases.

21 Jun 2014

CBG Benefits, Maxwell Health announce new strategic partnership to improve employee benefits

CBG Benefits and Maxwell Health announced a new strategic partnership today, pairing CBG Benefits' full-service employee benefits brokerage services with Maxwell's revolutionary platform to streamline enrollment and provide decision support, wellness incentives, and mobile access to employee benefits after the enrollment process.

21 Jun 2014

Research roundup: Improving colon cancer screening; disparities in heart care; Medicaid expansion's effect on cities

This report estimated the effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on 14 large and diverse cities: Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Columbus, Charlotte, Detroit, Memphis, Seattle, Denver, Atlanta, and Miami.

21 Jun 2014

State highlights: N.Y. lawmakers deal on heroin abuse; N.Y. birth control discrimination bill; nursing home costs in Mich.

A selection of health policy stories from New York, Michigan, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, California, Texas, Washington state, Missouri, Massachusetts and Colorado.

20 Jun 2014

Longer looks: Caregivers effort to stay well; patients who turn to religion for cures; new views on postpartum depression

More than 65 million people, or 29 percent of the U.S. population, provide care for a chronically ill, disabled or aged family members or friends during any given year, and spend an average of 20 hours per week providing that care.

20 Jun 2014

Merck commences cash tender offer to purchase Idenix Pharmaceuticals

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, is commencing today, through a subsidiary, a cash tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of common stock of Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. On June 09, 2014, Merck announced its intent to acquire Idenix.

20 Jun 2014

First Edition: June 20, 2014

Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about a new poll of showing a majority of those signing up for marketplace plans had been uninsured before and the Obama administration's decision to extend marriage benefits, including family leave, to same-sex couples.

20 Jun 2014

Viewpoints: The cost of a VA fix; Virginia GOP 'must be so proud'; health law critics' argument backfires

The Veterans Affairs scandal has exposed a failing bureaucracy, so naturally Congress's solution is to give the same bureaucracy more money.

20 Jun 2014

Insurers face difficult cost and coverage calculations regarding gene-sequencing tests

Aimee Robeson just wants an answer. Her son, Christian, was born in 2010 with multiple, mysterious syndromes that leave him unable to speak, chew, or walk on his own.

20 Jun 2014

Insider-trading investigation involving Capitol Hill staff and Medicare policy heats up

The Wall Street Journal reports that prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas for evidence related to whether congressional staffers provided advance information to stock traders regarding a change in health care policy.

20 Jun 2014

HIV infection emerges among PWID in the Middle East and North Africa

HIV epidemics are emerging among people who inject drugs in several countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Though HIV infection levels were historically very low in the Middle East and North Africa, substantial levels of HIV transmission and emerging HIV epidemics have been documented among people who inject drugs in at least one-third of the countries of this region, according to findings published today in PLOS Medicine.

20 Jun 2014

Lack of federal funding and Medicaid expansions can impact community health centers

A special federal fund to support community health centers expires after September 2015, creating a funding cliff for primary care clinics located in medically underserved areas.

20 Jun 2014

Insurers' 2015 rate filings set stage for consumer decisions

The Wall Street Journal notes that, as rates for the upcoming season shake out, consumers will make choices between paying higher premiums to stay on their current plans or switching coverage to save cash. Meanwhile, news outlets detail recent reports that analyze these costs, as well as the impact of federal subsidies, and offer regional takes on the rates.

20 Jun 2014

Congress' desire for quick VA fix complicated by costs

Even as Senate and House negotiators are getting ready to try to forge a compromise on their bills, some members are raising concerns about the price tag that would come with an effort to let veterans who can't get timely appointments at the VA go to private doctors or hospitals.

20 Jun 2014

Low-income, uninsured patients feel stigma when interacting with health care providers

Some low-income, uninsured and Medicaid patients report feeling stigma when interacting with health care providers, finds a new report in The Milbank Quarterly.

20 Jun 2014

Administration opened marketplaces despite technology concerns, GOP senators say

In new report, Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, allege the White House's delayed decisions kept health officials from meeting development deadlines for the online exchanges, Reuters reports. Meanwhile, a GAO official tells a Senate panel that the government has a flawed strategy on tech projects.

20 Jun 2014

Health Care News and Research

Premier PHC, Encompass partner to improve patient outcomes

Calif. marketplace officials raise concerns about initiative's effects on rate regulation

CBG Benefits, Maxwell Health announce new strategic partnership to improve employee benefits

Research roundup: Improving colon cancer screening; disparities in heart care; Medicaid expansion's effect on cities

State highlights: N.Y. lawmakers deal on heroin abuse; N.Y. birth control discrimination bill; nursing home costs in Mich.

Longer looks: Caregivers effort to stay well; patients who turn to religion for cures; new views on postpartum depression

Merck commences cash tender offer to purchase Idenix Pharmaceuticals

First Edition: June 20, 2014

Viewpoints: The cost of a VA fix; Virginia GOP 'must be so proud'; health law critics' argument backfires

Insurers face difficult cost and coverage calculations regarding gene-sequencing tests

Insider-trading investigation involving Capitol Hill staff and Medicare policy heats up

HIV infection emerges among PWID in the Middle East and North Africa

Lack of federal funding and Medicaid expansions can impact community health centers

Insurers' 2015 rate filings set stage for consumer decisions

Congress' desire for quick VA fix complicated by costs

Low-income, uninsured patients feel stigma when interacting with health care providers

Administration opened marketplaces despite technology concerns, GOP senators say

Men with prostate cancer achieve stronger muscles and remain active through playing football

MNsure review finds many exchange functions do not work properly

Cost and quality concerns linger over baby-boomer long term care

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