"… nce industry. Yesterday, Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) took aim at the Health care advocacy group Health C …"

"… s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) took aim at the Health care advocacy group Health Care for America Now (HCAN). HCAN took issue with AHIP’s assertion that …"

"… sque, “there you go again,” fashion. “Shocking,” he wrote. He said Health Care for America Now had “released yet another deceptive, ideologically …"

"… elbach sent reporters a link to a chart on AHIP’s blog called “Putting Health Plan Profits in Perspective.” The chart shows, surprise, that Health pla …"

"… ealth providers.Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) introduced the Behavioral Health Information Technology Act, the likely vehicle for this effort, earlier th …"

"… atmosphere of spending restraint.If enacted, the measure would extend the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act porti …"

"… e would extend the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act portion of the 2009 stimulus legislation. HITECH offers fundi …"

"… oners, long-term care providers, post-acute providers, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Rural Health Centers, rehabilitation hospitals, and cancer center …"

"… endations — led by Dr. William Hsiao of the Harvard School of Public Health — told lawmakers they favored option three in part because it was li …"

"… st week, John O’Kane, an IBM lobbyist, said in a letter to the House Health Care Committee that his company was opposed to any single-payer proposal. …"

"… in: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans. …"

"… in: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans. …"

"… een family physicians and the RUC.According to a 2010 study in the journal Health Affairs, a cardiologist’s yearly paycheck is more than $100,000 fatter t …"

"… rs.What’s at stake, depending on who you ask, are the fates of insurance brokers and agents nationwide or the future of one of the most consumer-friendly …"

"… furiously debated. As the law has been interpreted by federal regulators, brokers’ fees are included not in the 80 to 85 percent for medical care but in …"

"… r health policy analyst at the nonprofit Consumers Union, does not believe broker and agent fees were envisioned as “care” when the MLR rule was put int …"

"… ay this is not what they had in mind,” she told the Center, and counting brokers as anything other than overhead “would effectively negate the MLR provi …"

"… D prescription drug benefits. But the Office of Inspector General for the Health and Human Services Department says the CMS lacks a system to verify the ID …"

"… cribing patterns,” Robert Vito, an acting assistant inspector general at Health and Human Services Department, told a July Senate hearing.Vito compared th …"

"… e invalid prescriber IDs with Medicare Part D payments have come to light. Health plans that contract with Medicare found problems with invalid IDs on claim …"

"… roduced five weeks ago.The squabble is occurring just as the Department of Health and Human Services is reporting — according to the Associated Press — …"

"… ,” said Gerry Roy, the assistant inspector general for investigations at Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General. Roy said organized crim …"

"… pokesman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a branch of Health and Human Services, said he is not aware of any counties that were left wi …"

"… the bidding delay back then was President George W. Bush’s Secretary of Health and Human Services at the time, Michael Leavitt. “If Congress fails to u …"

"… nt Obama raised the possibility of a soda tax in an interview with Men’s Health magazine. The proposal has not emerged in any of the Health care reform bi …"

"… bbling Over,” published in September by the California Center for Public Health Advocacy and UCLA. It found that 41 percent of the state’s children betw …"