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Health care reform is cutting costs, improving care
This week marks the third anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. For Marylanders, that means a health care system that is stronger than it was three years ago, and a future that looks even brighter. Marylanders who have health insurance now have more...
Tags: Prescription Drugs, Flu, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Business, Government Health Care
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Sequester debate hides the cold facts of our budget crisis
Federal deficits are too large, and mounting national debt threatens future generations. But as Democrats and Republicans squabble over the mandatory spending cuts known as sequestration that went into effect Friday night, they are failing to face the...
Tags: Government, Barack Obama, Bankruptcy, Productivity, Private Health Care
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Maker of bed sore ointment accused of defrauding Medicaid
The Maryland Attorney General's office in conjunction with the federal government and 46 other states has reached a $48 million settlement with a Texas drug company that marketed an ointment to treat bedsores even though it wasn't approved by the Food and...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Health Insurance, Nursing Homes, Government Health Care
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St. Joseph receives Medicare certification
University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center said Friday that it has received a new Medicare provider agreement, allowing it to again seek reimbursement for treating patients on the federal government's health program.
The Towson hospital has not...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Pharmaceuticals, Towson, Chemical Industry, Finance
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Peter Beilenson's next great adventure in health care
Peter Beilenson — doctor and public health visionary, Baltimore health commissioner, Howard County health officer, quick-study scholar and decoder of federal regulations — remains one of our most interesting men. A person whose leadership has...
Tags: Litigation and Regulation, Nursing, Prince George's County, Ken Ulman, Howard County
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St. Joseph loses $400,000 every day it can't bill Medicare
University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center loses about $400,000 every day it's not certified by Medicare to collect payments from the federal health care program. The big question is how much that will ultimately cost the Towson hospital. Tens...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Research, Towson, Finance, Credit Ratings
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St. Joseph Medical Center not certified by Medicare system
The University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center failed a critical federal inspection and has been unable to collect what is likely millions of dollars in Medicare reimbursements from the federal government since Dec. 1. As part of its takeover of...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Christianity, Cardiologists, Colleges and Universities, Hospitals and Clinics
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Catholic Health to pay $4.9 million in St. Joseph overbilling case
The previous owner of University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center has agreed to pay the federal government $4.9 million for overbilling the Medicaid and Medicare system by keeping patients in the hospital longer than needed. Catholic Health...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Rod J. Rosenstein, Medicare, Government Health Care, Health and Medical Professionals
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The other, more dangerous, cliffs
The "fiscal cliff" isn't nearly the biggest cliff we face -- if we're talking about dangerous precipices looming on the horizon. Here are three: The child poverty cliff. A staggering number of our children are impoverished. Between 2007 and 2011, the...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Budgets and Budgeting, Head Start, Fiscal Cliff
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Taxing cigarettes saves lives
Every year, some 400,000 Americans die from smoking-related illnesses, the vast majority of them caused by cigarettes. As many as 40,000 more die from the effects of inhaling secondhand smoke, making cigarettes one of the leading causes of premature death...
Tags: Quitting Smoking, New York City
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Your guide to the fiscal cliff
Are we about to go over a fiscal cliff? It's looking more likely, but it may not be as alarming as it sounds. Here are three things you need to know about the impending crisis over the so-called fiscal cliff, the combination of tax increases and...
Tags: Paul Ryan, Parties and Movements, Fiscal Cliff, Democratic Party, Barack Obama
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Injecting Obamacare into economy will hurt -- a lot
It's difficult to catalogue all the negative impacts of Obamacare in one place. Nevertheless, my readers deserve to know a few of the uglier details as the new year rings in one of the most expensive, convoluted policy experiments in American history....
Tags: Employment, Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama, Fiscal Cliff, Labor Legislation
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