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Docs, insurers condemn latest ‘repeal and replace’ plan
The GOP faces a tough road for passing the Graham-Cassidy proposal.
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CMS alerts physicians of payment reductions for PQRS noncompliance
Some doctors will see their payments reduced by 2%.
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Doctors testify on health insurance stabilization
Support for innovation waivers and low cost, catastrophic plans high on list of reforms.
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Increase in sepsis incidence stable from 2009 to 2014
EHR-based analysis proves more accurate for determining sepsis incidence.
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FDA moves to guard against abuse of ‘orphan drug’ program
Of about 450 drugs that have won orphan approval since 1983, more than 70 were first approved by the FDA for mass-market use.
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Uninsured rate falls to record low of 8.8%
Both the overall number of uninsured and the percentage are record lows.
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Sen. Alexander seeks quick, passable steps to stabilize individual markets
State insurance commissioners give their views on how to achieve stability.
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Hurricane Harvey tests Houston physicians’ mettle
Houston doctors gave their best as Hurricane Harvey gave their city its worst.
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Trump administration ends DACA program, stranding medical students
President Trump has ended the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a policy that protected immigrants who...
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Q&A: CDC director Brenda Fitzgerald stresses ‘science and service’
The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is an ob.gyn. and former public health commissioner in Georgia.
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In California, medical vaccine exemptions tripled after personal belief exemption ban
The law’s loophole means outbreaks likely will still occur.