Health Policy Update April 1, 2010

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CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH POLICY UPDATE On Deck In Dover 

Recovery Act Money will Help to Offset Added Expenses to Medicare Part D

White House Watch 

President's Budget Proposal Assumes Comprehensive Health Care Reform

President Calls for Regulation of Insurer-Rate Increases

Officials Announce New Health Information Technology Grants

Washington Watch 

Consumer Reports Releases Hospital Rankings Based on Hospital-acquired Infections

Recovery Act to Help Fund Health IT

Analysts Expect Hospital Mergers to Increase

Senate approves Reid amendment to health reform bill

House Passes Bill that Delays Cuts in the Physician Fee Schedule

Senate passes Health and Human Services Appropriations Bill

House approves jobs bill with health coverage, workforce provision

Senate may expand Medicare/Medicaid instead of a new 'public-option'

Reid set to unveil new public option

Health & Human Services will provide $235M to establish health IT "beacons"

MedPAC Releases Report on Regional Variation

NIH Revises the Definition of Principal Investigator

HHS revises how it calculates improper Medicare payments

On Deck In Dover Recovery Act Money will Help to Offset Added Expenses to Medicare Part D February 18, 2010: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that states will receive more than $4 billion in financial relief due to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The amount that states will have to pay the federal government will be reduced by $4.3 billion to offset the cost of Medicare coverage for prescription drugs for state residents eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. The relief is intended to offset some of the added expense to Medicare Part D. Delaware is expected to save a total of $7,712,637.  "We believe today's action will help states as they struggle to maintain Medicaid and other budget priorities in these difficult economic times," said Sebelius. "This relief will help states continue to provide critical health care services to the nearly 60 million beneficiaries who depend upon it."

White House Watch Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3950) Signed into Law March 23, 2010: Congress approved H.R. 3950 on March 21. The $940 billion legislation passed in the House by a vote of rd 219-212 and in the Senate by a vote of 60-39. President Obama signed the bill into law on March 23 . The President held a


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