SAMHSA's Weekly Financing News Pulse - May 26, 2009

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National Health Financing News

• Senate Finance Committee Releases Health Reform Funding Options; Senator Baucus Discusses Health Care Reform
• Republicans Introduce Health Care Reform Plans
• Other Democratic Legislators Progress Towards Health Care Reform
• Update: Health Care Industry Groups Clarify Commitment to Reducing Health Spending Growth
• Urban Institute Report Says Failure to Institute Health Care Reform Could Result in 66 Million Uninsured Residents
• Daschle Continues to Play Role in Health Care Reform
• Senate Confirms Hamburg as FDA Commissioner
• New Democrat Coalition Seeks Independent Panel to Oversee Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Senate HELP Committee Approves Bill to Place Tobacco Under FDA Regulation
• Senate Approves Supplemental Spending Bill with Funds for Flu Pandemic
• DOJ and States Join Whistle-Blower Lawsuit Accusing Wyeth of Medicaid Fraud
• Health IT Lobby Group Asks HHS to Designate CCHIT as EHR Certification Body
• Report Finds U.S. Residents Will Pay Greater Share of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage in 2009
• HHS and DOJ Expand Health Care Fraud Investigations
• Survey Finds Few Employers Plan to Drop M/SU Coverage In Response to Federal Parity Legislation
• IHS Releases $500 Million in ARRA Health Care Funding
• NEJM Study Finds IOM’s Medical Resident Rest Recommendations Would Cost $2.5 Billion Annually
• Update: UAW and General Motors Agree to Tentative VEBA Deal
• KFF Launches Health Reform Gateway

SAMHSA will release this week’s issue of the Financing News Pulse Tuesday May 26, 2009 because of Memorial Day. 

Around the Hill: Hearings on Health Financing

• Senate Finance Committee: Financing Health Care Overhaul
  10:00 a.m. May 20, 215 Dirkse
• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services Education, and Related Agencies: Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Labor, HHS, Education
  10:30 a.m. May 20, 138 Dirksen
• House Oversight and Government Reform Committee: State and Local Pandemic Preparedness
  2:00 p.m. May 20, 2154 Rayburn
• House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies: Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies
  10:00 a.m. May 21, 2362-A Rayburn
• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies: Fiscal 2010 Appropriations: Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies
  2:00 p.m. May 21, 192 Dirksen

Around the States: State and Local Behavioral Health Financing News

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