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								<title>Questions on Essential Health Benefits? CMS Has Some Answers</title>
								<link>http://www.achp.org/newsroom/mmr/7311.html</link>
								
										
									
								<category>Media Monitoring Report</category>
								<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
								<description>On Friday, the   Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a fact sheet that deals with questions that have been raised by </description>
							
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								<title>CMS Seeks Input on Payment, Policy Updates for Medicare Advantage, Prescription Drug Plans</title>
								<link>http://www.achp.org/newsroom/mmr/7310.html</link>
								
										
									
								<category>Media Monitoring Report</category>
								<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
								<description>On Friday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it is accepting public comments on proposed payment and policy guidance for Medicare Advantage </description>
							
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								<title>Keeping Score under a Global Payment System</title>
								<link>http://www.achp.org/newsroom/mmr/7309.html</link>
								
										
									
								<category>Media Monitoring Report</category>
								<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
								<description>Many observers are   calling for fundamental redesign of the ways physicians and hospitals are   compensated for the care they provide. One </description>
							
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								<title>Health Officials Deny Wisconsin MLR Waiver Request, Give North Carolina Partial Reprieve</title>
								<link>http://www.achp.org/newsroom/mmr/7308.html</link>
								
										
									
								<category>Media Monitoring Report</category>
								<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
								<description>On Thursday, federal health   officials denied Wisconsin&amp;rsquo;s medical loss ratio (MLR) waiver request and they   required North Carolina insurers to meet </description>
							
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								<title>Mapping the Effects of the ACA&#039;s Health Insurance Coverage Expansions</title>
								<link>http://www.achp.org/newsroom/mmr/7307.html</link>
								
										
									
								<category>Media Monitoring Report</category>
								<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
								<description>A new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis reveals wide variation across local communities in the   share of the population that could benefit from coverage </description>
							
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								<title>AHA: Hospitals Hit Too Hard in SGR Deal</title>
								<link>http://www.achp.org/newsroom/mmr/7306.html</link>
								
										
									
								<category>Media Monitoring Report</category>
								<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
								<description>The American Hospital Association   (AHA) was quick to assess a federal payroll tax bill that includes a short-term fix to Medicare&amp;rsquo;s sustainable  </description>
							
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								<title>HHS Announces Intent to Delay ICD-10 Compliance Date</title>
								<link>http://www.achp.org/newsroom/mmr/7305.html</link>
								
										
									
								<category>Media Monitoring Report</category>
								<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
								<description>On Thursday, Department of Health   and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that HHS will   initiate a process to postpone </description>
							
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								<title>Tool Used to Assess How Well Community Health Centers Function as Medical Homes May be Flawed</title>
								<link>http://www.achp.org/newsroom/mmr/7304.html</link>
								
										
									
								<category>Media Monitoring Report</category>
								<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
								<description>The health care law calls for the expansion of community health centers to provide primary care to millions of newly insured, low-income Americans and also </description>
							
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								<title>Congress Reaches Deal on Payroll Tax Cut</title>
								<link>http://www.achp.org/newsroom/mmr/7300.html</link>
								
										
									
								<category>Media Monitoring Report</category>
								<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
								<description>Senate Finance Committee Chairman   Max Baucus (D-MT) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI),   announced early this morning </description>
							
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								<title>Health Care Law Extended Free Preventive Services to 54 million Americans with Private Health Insurance in 2011</title>
								<link>http://www.achp.org/newsroom/mmr/7299.html</link>
								
										
									
								<category>Media Monitoring Report</category>
								<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
								<description>On Thursday, Department   of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that   the health care law provided approximately 54 </description>
							
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