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State medical societies have advocated that such bills include physician notification provisions. The FDA continues development of an approval pathway for follow-on biologics.

Acting chief Marilyn Tavenner officially takes over the $820 billion agency overseeing Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health programs.

A Medicare patient would be considered an inpatient after spending at least two midnights in the hospital if the CMS rule change is finalized.

The Medicare agency is probing whether physicians are using paperless systems to bill costlier services, but doctors say EHR complexity is the real problem.

A third of survey respondents say they would change doctors if they could save money under an insurance plan with a different physician network.

Most U.S. detainees at Guantanamo Bay are on a hunger strike and dozens are being force-fed, and the practice is not confined to military prisons.

A study finds that expanding coverage to 10,000 additional adults in Oregon doesn’t markedly boost physical health outcomes but improves depression rates.

A Senate committee discusses which strategies are seeing results in building a work force that can handle ACA coverage expansions.

An ACA-created nonprofit organization will direct $68 million to increase the capacity of comparative effectiveness research.

The AMA and other organized medicine groups encouraged federal agencies to align Medicare pay so it supports interoperability of paperless systems.

The American Medical Association suggests changes to how federal officials collect and report data on financial ties between physicians and manufacturers.