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Medicaid & Medicare

Medicare to Cover Obesity Counseling with No Cost Sharing

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced this week that preventive services for obesity will now be covered by Medicare with no cost-sharing requirements [...]

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The Opening Salvo: Democrats, Republicans Issue Competing Supercommittee Plans

The federal government would achieve $3 trillion in savings, half of it from spending cuts, under a plan proposed this week by Democrats on the [...]

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CMS Approves Medicare Coverage of Depression and Alcohol Screening in Primary Care

On October 14, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced two new preventive benefits for Medicare beneficiaries: annual screening for depression as well as [...]

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Institute of Medicine Releases Essential Benefits Package Report

On Friday, October 7, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its highly anticipated report outlining the criteria and process by which the Department of Health [...]

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New Debt Reduction Proposal Targets Medicaid, Health Insurance Subsidies

House Appropriations Committee member Dennis Rehberg (R-MT) has proposed a new idea for how the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction can reach its $1.2 [...]

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Institute of Medicine to Release Recommendations on Determining Essential Health Benefits

On Friday morning, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) will release the results of its study on the criteria and methods that should be used in [...]

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CMS Announces New Coordinated Primary Care Initiative

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Wednesday the launch of a new initiative to support comprehensive primary care and improve the coordination [...]

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President Obama Proposes $320 Billion Reduction in Health Spending as Part of Deficit Deal

President Obama on Monday released a deficit reduction proposal that would cut federal spending by a sweeping $3 trillion, well in excess of the $1.2-1.5 [...]

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Coalition for Whole Health Urges Inclusion of Comprehensive Substance Use and Mental Health Services in Essential Benefits

The Coalition for Whole Health, a national coalition of addictions and mental health organizations of which the National Council is a member, has submitted recommendations [...]

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Democrats, Republicans Begin Talks on Deficit Committee; National Council Signs on to Letter to Protect Medicaid

Democrats and Republicans have begun separate talks to review the issues around federal debt reduction and the upcoming negotiations of the Joint Select Committee on [...]

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