PAC slams exclusive DoH deal
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Where was the tender process? The Department of Health ignored procurement guidelines and pursued a back room deal with an informatics company, according to a committee of MPs.â¦
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The nation's insurance commissioners say the Bush administration has made misleading statements about the new Medicare drug benefit in an effort to persuade people to sign up.
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Advocates for the poor are criticizing Tennessee&#39;s plan to curtail its supplemental Medicaid program, including raising premiums and requiring doctors to use the cheapest alternatives for treatment.
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The Ontario Medical Association says the Liberals decision to impose a contract agreement on doctors without further negotiations sends the wrong signal.
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Cancer drug distributors are trying to charge storage and handling fees to the makers of the drugs, a move some consumer groups worry could undermine parts of the Medicare prescription benefit law meant to curb pricing abuses.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Day one of a national summit intended to fix medicare for a generation degenerated into a numbers war, with premiers poking holes into what Prime Minister Paul Martin claimed was a federal cash offer of &#36;58.1 billion over 10 years.
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MPs, doctors and medical bodies have slammed offers of money to GPs for referring patients with compensation claims.
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A House of Representatives panel on Thursday rejected along party lines a Democratic bid to force the Bush administration to turn over records about the estimated cost of last year&#39;s Medicare drug bill.
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The AARP lines up against President Bush's proposals
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State and federal investigators said a day treatment center in Ashland for disabled people overcharged the government Medicaid program by exaggerating clients' disabilities to earn bigger payments.
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California&#39;s insurance commissioner Tuesday dropped his opposition to Anthem Inc.&#39;s proposed $18.4 billion purchase of WellPoint Health Networks Inc.
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A senior Senate Republican accused President Bush yesterday of holding a bipartisan expansion of the popular State Children's Health Insurance Program hostage to his broader policy goals of using tax deductions to help people afford private health insurance coverage.
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Merck KGaA's U S generic-drug unit was accused by the Department of Justice yesterday of overcharging government health-insurance programs for medicines.
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Governors from both parties are opposing President Bush's budget for a health care program that insures millions of children of the working poor, warning that failure to meet its spending needs will inflate the already high number of uninsured.
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Long criticized for its health care coverage, the retailer unveiled a plan Tuesday intended to cut employee costs, expand coverage and offer workers thousands of cheap prescription drugs.
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OTTAWA - Tempers flared at the national health summit on Tuesday over Ottawa&#39;s offer of short-term funding to address long waiting times for some medical procedures - a problem that some of the premiers tracked back to Paul Martin&#39;s term as finance
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LABOR will combine with the minor parties to vote down John Howard&#39;s $445 million pre-election sweetener of increasing the private health insurance rebate to more than a million older Australians.