December 11, 2015
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National News
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What PATIENTS Are Reading
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The Departments of the Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services issued final regulations governing several market reforms implemented under the Affordable Care Act.
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Senate committee is investigating companies that snap up, and profit from, drugs that are already on the market.
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Over the past decade, the EHR marketplace has become a burgeoning industry, with the number of adopters increasing in parallel.
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Health plans and state Medicaid directors disagree on how the CMS should fix its problem of underpaying plans with high numbers of dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.
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More people who are overweight or obese may get screened for diabetes under new guidelines released this week by a panel of prevention experts.
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There's little difference in the performance of five new once-a-week drugs to treat diabetes when they're compared to one another, though small differences in side effects emerge.
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Duke University has released a study revealing that there is a link between people with diabetes and a high rate of tooth loss.
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In a study released online in The BMJ, researchers from Mayo Clinic report a national trend toward over-testing glycated hemoglobin levels in adult patients with Type 2 diabetes.
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You know the painful feeling — stepping out in heels only to wishing you could take them off as fast as you put them on. But why are you experiencing such discomfort?
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It is a widely-held belief among health care leaders that comparing their hospitals and clinics to peers is very important.
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By 2018, health care will comprise close to 18 percent US gross domestic product — a sizable market opportunity for a new generation of entrepreneurs selling innovations to the industry, the government, and consumers.
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A million new customers have signed up for health insurance during the Affordable Care Act’s third open-enrollment season, and call centers have been deluged with requests from others eager to enroll.
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