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  Check Fine Print Underlying Insurer's Rate Increases, Sebelius Urges States . . .
  House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Posts Witness List and Briefing Memo for May 6 Hearing on 3 Health Care Pricing Transparency Bills . . .
  House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Sets May 6 Session on Health Care Pricing Transparency Legislation . . .
  HHS Issues Interim Final Rule on Reform Law's Requirements on Early Retiree Program . . .
  HHS Issues Interim Final Rule on Reform Law's Requirements for Web Portal on State Health Insurance Information . . .
  CMS Instructions Implement New Text for Medicare Summary Notice . . .
  CMS Instructions Address Insurer Codes for Health Reimbursement and Health Savings Accounts . . .
  Updated: House Health Leaders Urge Insurers to Ban Rescissions in Advance of Effective Date of Reform Provisions . . .
  Senate HELP Committee Posts Statements, Other Resources from Hearing on Health Insurance Premiums . . .
  HHS Releases Org Chart for New Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight . . .
  HHS Establishes New Office to Oversee Implementation of Reform Law's Private Health Insurance Provisions . . .
  Senate Commerce Committee Staff Report Highlights Insurers' Medical Loss Ratios as Key Health Reform Implementation Issue . . .
  House Energy and Commerce Oversight Subcommittee Cancels Hearing on Health Reform's Effects on Large Employers . . .
  Senate HELP Committee Sets Hearing on Health Insurance Premiums . . .
  Updated: HHS, Other Agencies Seek Comments and Information on Implementation of Reform Law Provisions on Insurer Medical-Loss Ratios, Process for Premium Reviews . . .
  AHRQ Statistical Brief Details Percentage of Persons Unable to Get (or Delayed in Getting) Needed Care . . .
  AHRQ Head's Column Addresses Same-Day Surgery . . .
  Kaiser Family Foundation Posts Updated Summary of Insurance Coverage Provisions Under Health Reform, Reconciliation Acts . . .
  CMS Releases Updated Reference Guide on Medicare Secondary Payer Reporting Requirements . . .
  HHS, Department of Labor Set First Meeting of Working Group on Medicaid, CHIP, and Employer-Sponsored Coverage . . .
  House Energy and Commerce Oversight Subcommittee Sets Hearing, Posts Materials on Reform Law's Impact on Large Employers . . .
  House Energy and Commerce Oversight Subcommittee Sets Hearing on Pre-Existing Conditions in Individual Health Insurance Market . . .
  Contesting Insurer's Claim that Provider Consolidation Drives Premium Increases, AHA Letter Cites "Skyrocketing Costs for New Technologies and Pharmaceuticals" . . .
  Waxman, Stupak Request Insurers to Provide Information, Send CEOs to Hearing . . .
  AHRQ Data Show 66 Percent of State and Local Government Workers in Employer-Sponsored Health Plans, Compared to 54 Percent of Private Sector Workers . . .
 
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