Wednesday, 20 January 2016

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Prominent Mount Sinai doctor accused of sexually abusing two female patients
6:45:00 AM
An emergency room doctor at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan is being accused of drugging a female patient and performing a lewd act and groping another female patient in a separate incident.


21st Century Cures Act won't get Senate treatment
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 9:45 PM
The leader of a key Senate committee said Tuesday that the panel won't take up the House-passed 21st Century Cures Act, a far reaching bill intended to spur medical innovation, and would instead pursue many of its goals in smaller-bore legislation.


Are dual-eligible demos succeeding? GAO says it will be hard to tell
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 5:52 PM
The CMS needs to do a better job overseeing the 12 state-administered demonstration programs intended to improve care of people who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.


CDC offers Zika virus guidelines, docs should ask about travel
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 5:21 PM
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say doctors should ask pregnant patients about their travel and certain symptoms, and -- if warranted -- test them for Zika.


CMS reins in special enrollment chances for ACA plans
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 5:11 PM
Heeding the calls of upset health insurers, the CMS has purged several categories of circumstances that allow consumers to get plans through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces outside the open enrollment period.


High court ruling could widen healthcare coverage for immigrants
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 4:30 PM
If the U.S. Supreme Court upholds President Barack Obama's plan to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation, it could mean more healthcare coverage for some, but not most, such immigrants.


Penn's Jefferson Health, Aria Health systems merge
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 2:57 PM
Aria Health System and Philadelphia-based Jefferson, which includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, have agreed to merge.


CHIME launches $1 million challenge on patient matching
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 2:30 PM
The professional association of hospital CIOs is offering $1 million for a universal patient identifier method that could enable providers and health information exchanges to automate the record matching system and ensure 100% accuracy.


Supreme Court rejects another case challenging ACA
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 2:15 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act, saying it won't hear a case that alleges the law should have originated in the House instead of the Senate.


UnitedHealth's ACA exchange losses reach $720 million
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 12:15 PM
UnitedHealth Group's first foray with the health insurance exchanges turned out to be a little worse than expected. UnitedHealth lost $720 million on its individual-market health plans in 2015, the company said Tuesday, several million dollars above...


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