SAMHSA's Weekly Financing News Pulse - June 1, 2009

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National Health Financing News

• Senator Kennedy Circulates Draft of Health Reform Legislation
• Health Care Industry Groups Efforts to Reduce Health Care Costs Could Violate Antitrust Laws
• UnitedHealth Group Offers Recommendations to Reduce Federal Health Spending by $540 Billion Over 10 Years
• Rep. Wolf Says Entitlement Programs May Affect U.S. Bond Rating
• Sanofi-Aventis Settles Medicaid Charges
• CBO Report Details Budgetary Treatment of Health Reform
• At Least Six States Consider Reducing Aid for Medicare Drug Benefit
• Study Estimates Cost Paid Insured Residents to Cover Uncompensated Care
• Study Projects Number of Uninsured Residents to Rise by 2010
• NBGH Survey Finds One in Four Employees Ignore Medical Care to Cut Costs
• Study Finds Few Retail Health Clinics in Low-Income Areas
• Study Ranks Insurers by Speed of Claim Payment and Rate of Claim Denials
• Report Finds Many Hospitals Fail to Report Disciplinary Actions Against Physicians
• Study Finds No Link Between Cost and Quality of Care in Elderly Patients
• Urban Institute Report Analyzes Massachusetts Health Reform
• Report Finds Governments Spent $468 Billion on Drugs; Most Spending Health Care Related
• FDA Issues Proposed Advertising Guidelines for Product Risk Information
• KFF Publishes Issue Brief Examining Social Security Cost of Living Increases and the Effects on Medicare Part B
• Update: UAW to Accept Up to 20 Percent of GM Stock; Agrees to Retiree Health Care Concessions
• MSNBC Creates Tool to Display State Budget Developments

Around the Hill: Hearings on Health Financing

Congress is not in session.  The Senate reconvenes June 1 at 12:00 p.m. and the House reconvenes June 2 at 2:00 p.m.

Around the States: State and Local Behavioral Health Financing News

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