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CDHCI is proud to sponsor and endorse "Meet the Health Policy Makers" produced by Atlantic Information Services in Washington, DC July 10-11, 2008. This event will feature the most prominent health policy makers in Washington from Senators Hatch, Wyden, Rockefeller to Chairmen Waxman, Stark, Rangel and Ranking Member Camp. In addition, senior health policy advisors to the presidential campaigns, prominent academics from influential Washington think thanks and innovative state policy makers are confirmed at this unique event. Click here to find out more about the conference..... A 'Game Of Chicken' Over Payments To Docs, Health Plans Senate Democrats and Republicans are engaged in one heck of a “game of chicken” over the automatic July 1 10.6% Medicare physician fee cuts and cutting the private Medicare program to pay for avoiding those cuts. When Congress returns on July 7, we will see incredible political theater, and the likelihood that at least one major health care stakeholder is going to lose and one is going to win — big. The odds are that either the Medicare physicians will take a 10.6% pay cut this month — as well as another 5% cut on 1 January 2009 — or the health plan industry is going to lose its most profitable... Banks optimistic HSAs will catch on The health savings accounts business is growing at a healthy pace for banks nationally. Financial institution research and consulting firm Celent said recently that the number of bank health savings accounts grew 73 percent and account balances increased by 140 percent.... Confronting the cost of health care An estimated 18,000 people in the United States die unnecessarily each year because they have no health insurance, according to the nonprofit Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Robin Salerno is trying her best to not become one of them. But Salerno has adrenal cancer, no insurance and few options..... Many Health Savings Account Owners Make IRA Transfer The IRS provides an opportunity for employees to shelter some of their medical expenses from taxation by transferring funds from their individual retirement accounts (IRA) to a health saving account (HSA). This amendment to tax legislation can mean considerable savings for eligible enrollees in terms of income tax and tax deductions.... Revolution Health Group Expects to Become a Consumer-Directed Health Care Leader, but Observers Say Strategy Remains Unclear It's been nearly three years since America Online co-founder Steve Case announced the formation of Revolution Health Group, an organization he predicted would become the nation's first comprehensive consumer-directed health care (CDH) company. Revolution's strategy to meet that goal, however, remains unclear..... State physician groups, AMA target GOP senators over Medicare votes Physician groups around the country are angry with Republicans who did not support Medicare legislation, and are gearing up to go after them this election cycle. Medical societies in Texas, Mississippi and New Hampshire — states where GOP senators face difficult reelection challenges this year — are taking a hard look at whether to withhold their support for incumbents who voted against the bill on June 26. One state group has already acted and others could follow....
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