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		<title>Status of CMS&#8217; MSA Portal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CMS recently announced that it is moving forward with its Workers&#8217; Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Portal (WCMSAP).  This portal will allow electronic submission of MSAs, thus expediting CMS&#8217; review process.  The portal is slated to officially open during the first quarter of 2011.  CMS will release additional information on the portal before the official release.
Protocols will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CMS Releases Health Care Spending Projections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CMS recently released ten years (2009 through 2019) of medical projections.  The projections portray expenditures in a variety of areas, including funding source (private, Medicare, Medicaid), type of service (hospital, physician, drugs, etc.) and others.
click here to access the projections.

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		<title>Monsanto Case: Conditional Payments Before and After Settlement Date (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 1, 2009, The United States filed suit to recover conditional payments owed from a class action settlement. See CV 09-PT-2423-E, U.S.A. v. Stricker et al. While the complaint was short and only attached the master settlement documents, it appears that the United States may be seeking reimbursement for conditional payments made both before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate to Propose Closure of Part-D &#8220;Doughnut Hole&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senate health reform efforts will include a proposal to close Medicare Part-D&#8217;s &#8220;doughnut hole,&#8221; providing better prescription drug coverage to seniors.

Details are yet to be released, but Senate leaders have committed to fully closing the doughnut hole (a current Part-D provision where the beneficiary receives drug coverage up to $2,700, then must pay 100% out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sources: Medicare Buy-In Proposal to be Dropped</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As reported by CNN this morning, the proposed Medicare buy-in to seniors aged 55 to 64 will be dropped from reform efforts to avoid a Republican filibuster.

The buy-in will be dropped mainly to satisfy Senator Joe Lieberman, whose vote is crucial to bring the healthcare reform bill to a vote.  Lieberman, an independent, has threatened [...]]]></description>
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