Senate gets early start on health reform plan
Sens. Baucus and Kennedy are working with a bipartisan group on the goal of moving a consensus bill through the Senate next year.
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Medicaid pay delays found to squeeze access
Bureaucratic hassles can discourage physicians from seeing new Medicaid patients.
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Health care fraud still a key target of federal False Claims Act
Physicians are seldom named in false claims cases but are often in a position to blow the whistle on fraud they observe.
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Obama taps former Senate chief Daschle to head HHS
The nominee has proposed creating a federal health board to increase the transparency and value of health care spending.
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Going high profile: Medical boards push transparency
Physicians can expect to see more information about their malpractice payments, disciplinary actions and other identifying data being made easily accessible online.
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