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UnitedHealth To End Commissions On Sales Of Medicare Drug PlansAs of now, commissions on renewals will continue to be paid. Also, Leapfrog has served a cease-and-desist after Tenet Healthcare Corp. filed a lawsuit alleging that the safety grades process was bought and paid for. Other news is on upcoding practices in outpatient care, updated industry standards for antibiotic manufacturing, and more.Modern Healthcare:UnitedHealth Group To Cut Medicare Drug Plan Commissions聽UnitedHealth Group plans to stop paying commissions next month to brokers and sales agents who sell new Medicare Part D prescription drug plans. The insurer, which has had a rough week that s included a new CEO and reports of a federal investigation, on Thursday notified companies that market its plans of the change. Tepper, 5/15 Modern Healthcare:Leapfrog Group Sends Cease-And-Desist Letter To Tenet HospitalsThe Leapfrog Group has sent a cease-and-desist letter to five Tenet Healthcare Corp. facilities in Florida, demanding the hospitals and a law firm stop spreading what it said were false statements about the group and its safety grades process. The letter follows the聽filing of a federal lawsuit against the nonprofit healthcare watchdog group late last mon
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the case for action now both more urgent and more practical, columnist David Broder writes stanley tumbler in the Washington Post. According to the report -- which was shadowed by news of a Senate agreement on filibusters -- the United States could save $320 billion to $1.1 trillion in the first 10 years while extending health insurance coverage to every U.S. re nike air max sident and implementing stronger quality measures, Broder writes. The analysis, which was conducted by Kenneth Thorpe, would seem like pie in the sky if its source were not NCHC, a respected group of 90 organizations with 150 million members or employees from various industries, according to Broder. For the analysis, Thorpe, a former HHS economist and current chair of the Health Policy and Management Department of Emory University, applied the principles of universal coverage, cost management and improved quality to four scenarios and found that implementing such changes would cost about $75 billion annually, but the net savings of such a system after 10 years would range from $125 billion to $182 billion annually, Broder writes. Moreover, without such reform, the number of uninsured U.S. residents will increase by 20% by 2015, at which time heal
