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This Week's Health Business News

• Health Plans Work to Reduce the Health Risks and Costs From Elective C-Sections Before Full Term
• CMS: Supervising Physicians Can Be Anywhere on a Hospital's Campus Under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System 
• Coalition of Medicare Advantage and Medicaid Health Plans Lobbies for an Exemption From the Proposed Excise Tax on Insurers   
• Opinions Vary on Likely Impact of Long-Term Care Insurance Program Included in New House Bill
• The Medicare Advantage Marketing Season Is Seen as 'Good,' With Retention Being the Main Focus 

News from Washington and the States

• House-Passed Reform Bill Would Add Strong New Federal Enforcement Tools
• Two Large Insurers Urge Their Employees to Lobby Against Certain Reform Measures
• Boston Scientific to Pay $296 Million to Settle Allegations Its Subsidiary Failed to Fully Inform FDA
• Hospital Employee Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Criminal HIPAA Violations
• Health Reform and Specialty Pharmacy: Potential Impact of the House-Passed Bill

Health Plan Business

Medicare Advantage

• Wis. Medicaid Will Penalize HMOsPerforming Poorly in Milwaukee

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans

• New Studies Suggest That Blues Plans Have 'Near-Monopolies' in Some States

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