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Selected stories from the daily newsletter CQ HealthBeat from the week of April 23, 2012. Provided as a service under rights licensed by The Commonwealth Fund. The full-text version of this newsletter is available in the newsletter archive.
An aggressive new government effort to improve the quality of care for chronically sick Americans is a chief recommendation of a blue-ribbon panel of health care experts brought together by The Commonwealth Fund. Read more »
The health care overhaul will save Medicare more than $200 billion through 2016 largely through provider and Medicare Advantage payment reductions, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary says in a report released last week. Read more »
Some consumers will be getting a happy surprise when later this year health insurers ship out rebates mandated by new medical payout requirements in the health care law, according to a new study issued on last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Read more »
A Health and Human Services (HHS) bulletin released this week lays out an interim strategy that health insurance exchanges would follow in determining employer-sponsored health coverage. Read more »
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a final rule last week to allow frail and disabled Medicaid enrollees to more easily receive services outside of nursing homes. Read more »
Democrats should consider some form of premium support, while Republicans should be more open-minded about fee-for-service payment changes enacted by the 2010 health law in order to forge a consensus on a Medicare overhaul, former Sen. John B. Breaux said recently. Read more »