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October 23, 2014

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HHS Launches $840M Initiative to Lower Health Costs Through System Redesign

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell today announced an initiative that will fund successful applicants who work directly with medical providers to rethink and redesign their practices, moving from systems driven by quantity of care to ones focused on patients’ health outcomes, and coordinated health care systems. These applicants could include group practices, health care syst...

October 21, 2014

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IRS Releases Compliance Information for ACA Shared Responsibility

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has unveiled tentative reporting forms to be used by affected large employers who must begin offering health insurance to their employees beginning Jan. 1 or pay a penalty to the IRS. Those companies with 100 or more employers will be subject to the shared responsibility provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) commencing on New Year's Day 2015, meaning the...

October 20, 2014

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CDC Updates Health Care Workers' Ebola Guidelines | WWC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is tightening previous infection control guidance for health care workers caring for patients with Ebola, to ensure there is no ambiguity. The guidance focuses on specific personal protective equipment (PPE) health care workers should use and offers detailed step-by-step instructions for how to put the equipment on and take it off safely. R...

October 17, 2014

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HHS Pushes Development of Ebola Vaccine | WWC

The development of a vaccine to prevent Ebola virus disease will be accelerated with support from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR). Under a one-year contract with Profectus BioSciences Inc., headquartered in Baltimore, ASPR’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) will provide approximate...

October 16, 2014

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DOL Launches Accessible Workplace Tech Site | WWC

The Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) has announced the launch of http://www.PEATworks.org — a comprehensive Web portal spearheaded by ODEP's Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology. From educational articles to interactive tools, the website's content aims to help employers and the technology industry adopt accessible technology as part of everyd...

October 15, 2014

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DOL Delays White-Collar Overtime Rule Action | WWC

Along with the home care worker rule, the Department of Labor (DOL) has confirmed that work on a rule redefining the exemptions from overtime pay for professional, executive, administrative, outside sales and computer employees has been delayed until next year. The department's Semiannual Regulatory Agenda had targeted November 2014 as the goal for the redefinition, which would presumably up t...

October 15, 2014

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DOL Issues $170M in Grants for Long-Term Unemployed Job Placement

The Department of Labor today announced $169,771,960 in grants to expedite the employment of Americans struggling with long-term unemployment. The grants are part of the Ready to Work Partnership initiative to support and scale innovative collaborations between employers, nonprofit organizations and federal job training programs to help connect ready-to-work Americans with ready-to-be-filled jo...

October 14, 2014

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Ada Lovelace Day Celebrated Today, Oct. 14 | WWC

Ada Lovelace in 1833 developed what was arguably the world's first programming language, or algorithm, for mathematician and mechanical engineer Charles Babbage, who was working on two prototype computers called the Difference Engine and the Analytics Engine. Ada was the daughter of Lord Byron and mathematics-loving Annabella Milbanke, who instilled in her daughter a love of science, math and ...

October 9, 2014

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New HealthCare.Gov Site Unveiled But With Spanish Misspellings

A day after insurers got to navigate through the site, the administration unveiled its revamped HealthCare.Gov insurance portal on Wednesday with versions in both English and Spanish, but with "get ready" misspelled three times in Spanish as preparase instead of the correct spelling, preparese. The incorrect usage appears three times. Open enrollment for year two of Obamacare commences Nov. 1...

October 9, 2014

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Top 1% of Patients Consume 22.7% of Spending, Research Group Finds

The top 1 percent of all patients consume 22.7 percent of all health care spending, while the top 5 percent account for half of all spending, according to an analysis by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The average annual tab for the elderly in the top 5 percent is $60,976, topped only by people with four or more conditions in the top 5 percent, whose yearly total is $78,...

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