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A slowdown in the growth of U.S. health care costs could mean that Americans could save as much as $770 billion on Medicare spending over the next decade, Harvard economists say. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-slowdown-health-growth-americans-billion.html Health Mon, 06 May 2013 16:00:05 EST news287059565 The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is co-funding an affordable, hi-tech, solution for managing stress that could help prevent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), helping warfighters and potentially saving billions of dollars in associated medical costs, officials announced March 6. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-navy-ipad-app-stress-fending.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:22:55 EST news281884925 (HealthDay)—With millions of Americans watching and waiting, the U.S. Supreme Court largely upheld the Obama Administration's health care reform legislation, making the survival of "Obamacare" this year's top health news story. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-survival-obamacare-tops-biggest-health.html Other Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:29:04 EST news275927336 (HealthDay)—The current growth in health care's share of the gross domestic product (GDP) and need to implement learning health systems is forcing physicians to make important choices, according to a perspective piece published online Dec. 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-current-health-docs-urgent-choices.html Health Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:20:01 EST news274618653 (AP)—Congressional budget analysts are now estimating that nearly 6 million Americans—most of them in the middle class—will have to pay a tax penalty for not getting health insurance once President Barack Obama's health care law is fully in place. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-tax-penalty-6m-uninsured-people.html Health Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:59:56 EST news267332390 (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to review the first lower-cost versions of biotech drugs, expensive medications which have never before faced generic competition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-fda-outlines-path-lower-priced-biotech.html Medications Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:50:26 EST news248032203 The number of low-income, uninsured Americans enrolling in Medicaid under the expanded coverage made possible by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 could vary considerably from the levels currently projected by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), according to a new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers. They report that it's probably more realistic to say somewhere between 8 million and 22 million may enroll in Medicaid by 2014 instead of the 16 million predicted by the CBO. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-policymakers-major-uncertainties-medicaid-expansion.html Health Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:55:57 EST news238866949 (AP) -- The White House appeared to waffle Monday on the fate of a financially troubled long-term care program in President Barack Obama's health overhaul law, as supporters and foes heaped criticism on the administration. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-white-house-waffling-long-term.html Health Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:16:55 EST news238083393 (AP) -- A troubled long-term care plan in President Barack Obama's health overhaul has suffered another setback. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-repeal-long-term.html Health Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:11:01 EST news238075851 Recommendations to reduce federal health care spending in a socially and fiscally responsible manner today were made in a letter to the Congressional Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction from the American College of Physicians (ACP). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-health-socially-fiscally-responsible-manner.html Health Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:56:07 EST news235065288 One consequence of the expanded access to health care facilitated by health care reform will be a shortfall in the necessary numbers of physicians and other advanced medical professionals. According to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, the United States will face serious shortages in the combined workforce of physicians, advance practice nurses, and physician assistants over the next two decades. The study concluded that, without an adequate supply of advanced medical professionals, the U.S. won't meet the goals of health care reform. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-future-labor-shortfalls-medical-professionals.html Other Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:06:12 EST news229190763 Geographic adjustments to Medicare payments are intended to accurately and equitably cover regional variations in wages, rents, and other costs incurred by hospitals and individual health care practitioners, but almost 40 percent of hospitals have been granted exceptions to how their adjustments are calculated, finds a new report from the Institute of Medicine. The rate of exceptions strongly suggests that the mechanisms underlying the adjustments are inadequate, noted the committee that wrote the report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-medicare-sources-methods-accuracy-geographic.html Health Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:54:34 EST news226155232