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Senate gets early start on health reform plan
Sens. Baucus and Kennedy are working with a bipartisan group on the goal of moving a consensus bill through the Senate next year. - Dec. 8

Medicaid pay delays found to squeeze access
Bureaucratic hassles can discourage physicians from seeing new Medicaid patients. - Dec. 8

Health care fraud still a key target of federal False Claims Act
Physicians are seldom named in false claims cases but are often in a position to blow the whistle on fraud they observe. - Dec. 8

Obama taps former Senate chief Daschle to head HHS
The nominee has proposed creating a federal health board to increase the transparency and value of health care spending. - Dec. 8

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