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Are they going to increase the budget used for Western and Eastside Mental Health Centers?

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WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has tapped Northrop Grumman to develop a national repository for tracking incentive payments to healthcare providers that CMS will pay for meaningful use of electronic health …

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CMS to spend $34 million to track health IT incentive payments …

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A roundtable on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and health reform — featuring Bob Berenson, Tom Scully, Gail Wilensky, and Bruce Vladeck — was the most-read Health Affairs Blog post for April.

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April's Most-Read Health Affairs Blog Posts – Health Affairs Blog

Editor’s Note: Much of the burden of implementing the newly passed health reform legislation will fall on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The agency must handle this task while continuing to perform its already daunting …

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Jerry Moran, R-Hays, and Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, both blasted the health care reform law over a new cost analysis by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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The new health overhaul will cover more people but will also cost more than originally thought, the chief actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in a report Thursday.

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Both the House and Senate health -care reform bills call for a large increase in Medicaid—about 18 million more people will begin enrolling in Medicaid under the House bill starting in 2013, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services …

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The Health Care Blog: Health Reform Could Harm Medicaid Patients

In 2009, health care spending grew by 5.7 percent, now reaching $2.5 trillion. It is the largest increase since the federal government began tracking these figures in 1960, according to a report from the Centers for Medicare and …

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The chief actuary of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says that overall national health spending will increase as a result of the Senate version of major health care legislation, though some central provisions …

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