Report Criticizes Medicare Role in Fraud Investigations

Investigators are reporting that the Medicare program largely failed to give antifraud contractors much of the information they needed to do their work.

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Report Criticizes Medicare Role in Fraud Investigations

Ethnicity study

‘I thought I was alone with multiple sclerosis’

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Give children ‘healthy Halloween’

Parents should shun chocolate and sweets this Halloween and offer spooky-themed healthy food, a charity says.

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Obama to lift HIV entry ban soon

President Barack Obama says he will end the 22-year ban on people with HIV entering the US from the start of 2010.

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Global jump in swine flu deaths

The number of swine flu deaths reported worldwide jumps by 700 in a week, latest World Health Organization figures reveal.

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How Much Will This Overhaul Cost?

The House bill would trigger more than $1 trillion in spending to expand health insurance over a decade, with penalties paid by companies and individuals offsetting some of the expense.

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WHO experts: Single dose of swine flu vaccine may be enough

One dose of vaccine might be enough to protect both adults and children older than 6 months against the swine flu pandemic, an international expert panel has concluded.

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Doctor and Patient: Your Medicare Options? Now Is the Time to Weigh Them

Before the year ends, people have to decide whether to choose a new plan in the propram or to change nothing at all.

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House Health Bill Could Swell With Expected Amendment

A “manager’s amendment” from House Democrats could run hundreds of pages and contain all sorts of surprises, a Republican House leader says.

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A Senate Naysayer, Spoiling for Health Care Fight

As a bill heads to the floor, Senator Tom Coburn prepares for what he considers a career pinnacle of havoc.

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