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Welcome
to AISHealth.com
Your one-stop source for news, data,
and strategic information on the
business of health care.
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This Week's Health Business News |
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Pharmacy Cost-Savings Proposals Lack Details and Dollar Amounts
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Health Plan Enrollment of Same-Sex Partners Is Slowing Despite
New Mandates
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Aggressive Pricing in 2008 Helped Aetna Boost Enrollment, but
May Have Hurt Profitability
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Is Qforma/USA TODAY Web Site on 'Most Influential Doctors'
Just Another Beauty Contest?
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Part D, FEHBP or Massachusetts Connector Could Be Reform Model
for Prescription Drug Coverage
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News from Washington and the States
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Sen. Baucus (D-Mont.) Trims $600 Billion From Senate Finance Committee’s
Reform Bill
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U.S. Supreme to Hear Case That Could Dictate How Whistleblowers
File Lawsuits
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Illinois Enacts Law to Make Insurance Affordable to Laid-off Workers
of Small Businesses
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Expanded Medicare Fraud Strike Force Indicts 53 People in Detroit
for Alleged False Claims
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BCBS of Michigan Settles Lawsuit with Payments to 100 Families With
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| July's
Featured Articles |
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Health Plan Business |
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Employers Are Responding to Economic Meltdown With Higher Deductibles
and More Limited Benefits |
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Medicare Advantage |
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Medicare Advantage Plans Must Find 'Big Areas' for Savings as CMS
Issues its Final 2010 Rate Benchmarks |
| Managed Medicaid |
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Fla. Lawmakers Opt Not to ExtendMedicaid Managed Care — for
Now
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans |
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Massachusetts Blues Plans Sign Up Providers for a New Alternative
Quality Contract |
| Pharmacy Benefit Management |
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Personalized Medicine Is Growing, but Health Plans Need Policies
for Coverage |
| Specialty Pharmacy |
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Pharmacy Groups Band Together to Promote Role of Pharmacists in
Health Reform |
| Consumer-Directed Health Care Plans |
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Down Economy, Continuing Health Care Cost Increases Spur Large Employers
to Offer Consumer-Directed Health Plans |
| Medicare Compliance |
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Conflicting CMS Guidance About Physician Signatures on Orders Creates
a Quandary for Hospitals |
| HIPAA Compliance |
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HIPAA Covered Entities Face a Variety of New Enforcement Risks Under
Recent Measures Enacted |
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