SAMHSA's Weekly Financing News Pulse - April 27, 2009

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National Health Financing News

• Senate Schedules Sebelius Nomination
• White House and Legislators Pursuing Budget Reconciliation and Health Reform
• Legislators Seek Health Reform Bill by the Summer, Begin Hearings on Overhaul Strategies
• Obama Names Chief Technology and Performance Officers
• Blumenthal Expects Huge Challenges Around EHRs for HHS National Health IT Office
• Mayo Clinic Offers Free Personal Health Records Website
• More U.S Workers Utilizing Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits
• Report Finds State Medical Boards Disciplining Fewer Physicians
• AMA to Offer Physicians Web-Based Information Service
• Survey Shows Health Plan Satisfaction is Lower in Small Companies
• Employers Underestimate Impact of Employee Health on Productivity
• AHRQ Report Says Mental Disorders are the Most Costly Childhood Disease
• NCSL Report Illustrates Effects of Recession on State Budgets; GAO Report Finds States are Slow to Utilize ARRA Funds
• Major Health Insurers Report Lower Earnings, Fewer Enrollees
• Congressman Calls for Investigation of Insurers Denial of Health Claims for Civilians Working in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Haley Group Proposes Medicare and Medicaid Reform
• Survey Polls American Attitudes Toward the U.S. Health Care System
• NIDA Begins Drug Use Screening Initiative
• Pharmaceutical Companies and Insurers Link Drug Efficacy and Price
• UAW Seeks to Protect Employee Benefits in the Event of Chrysler Bankruptcy

Around the Hill: Hearings on Health Financing

• House Veterans’ Affairs Committee: Florida Health Infrastructure for Veterans
  12:00 p.m. April 20, Florida Community College Jacksonville, FL
  9:30 a.m. April 21, Board of County Commission Chambers, Orlando, FL
• Senate Finance Committee: HHS Secretary Nomination
  TBA April 21, 215 Dirksen
• Senate Finance Committee: Health Care Overhaul
  10:00 a.m. April 21, 216 Hart
  TBA, May 5, TBA
  TBA, May 14, TBA
• House Oversight and Government Reform Committee: Economic Stimulus Oversight
  10:00 a.m. April 21, Brooklyn Borough Hall Brooklyn, NY
• House Ways and Means Committee: Health Insurance Market Overhaul
  10:00 a.m. April 22, 1100 Longworth
• Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee: Health-Related Legislation
  2:30 p.m. April 22, 418 Russell
• Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security: Waste and Fraud in Medicare and Medicaid
  3:00 p.m. April 22, 342 Dirksen
• Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee: State and Local Oversight of Stimulus Funding
  9:00 a.m. April 23, 342 Dirksen
• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science and Related Agencies: Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Commerce, Justice, Science
  10:00 a.m. April 23, 192 Dirksen
• House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Legislation
  10:00 a.m. April 23, 334 Cannon
• House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions: Reducing the Cost of Health Insurance
  10:30 a.m. April 23, 2175 Rayburn
• Senate Indian Affairs Committee: Indian Health Service Nomination
  2:15 p.m. April 23, 628 Dirksen
• Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee: State Experiences with Health Care Revision
  2:30 p.m. April 28, 430 Dirksen
• Senate Finance Committee: Treasury and HHS Nominations
  10:00 a.m. April 30, 215 Dirksen
• Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee: Revising Access to Health Care
  10:00 a.m. April 30, 430 Dirksen
• House Veterans’ Affairs Committee: Mental Health Needs of Veterans
  10:00 a.m. April, 30 334 Cannon

Around the States: State and Local Behavioral Health Financing News

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