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Just weeks after his re-election, President Barack Obama summoned about 20 senior administration officials to the White House’s Roosevelt Room for an hour-long meeting on the implementation of his health-care law.
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Hospitals will get a pay raise from the U.S. government for treating patients in the nation’s Medicare program.
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Medicare is probing the possible leak of a government decision regarding health insurers’ payments for next year, administrator Marilyn Tavenner said.
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The Obama administration decided March 15 to scale back a proposed cut in Medicare payments to health insurers, two weeks before the information may have been tipped to stock traders, according to Senator Charles Grassley.
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Washington experienced a rare moment of bipartisanship yesterday when Marilyn Tavenner breezed through her confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee.
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Senator Charles E. Grassley said he will investigate how an investor services firm specializing in so-called political intelligence got early word of a Medicare- rate decision that led to a surge in health insurer stocks.
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President Barack Obama re-nominated Marilyn Tavenner to be the administrator in charge of the $820 billion U.S. Medicare and Medicaid programs.
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Small-business employees will have to wait a year before they can choose their own medical plans after the Obama administration delayed a part of the 2010 U.S. health-care law intended to provide them with coverage options.
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Preferred-pharmacy plans that promise lower prices for people who agree to buy their prescription drugs from certain stores may be costing the U.S. Medicare program more money to support, pharmacists said.
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Health insurers that offer private plans in the U.S. Medicare program for the elderly and disabled were overpaid by as much as $5.1 billion over the past three years, government auditors said.
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