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HHS Fails To Follow Up On Concurrent Care Demo Required By Affordable Care Act

Medicare is falling behind on testing curative care for beneficiaries, report Politico and Kaiser Health News. The 2010 Affordable Care Act tells the Department of Health and Human Ser-vices to select up to 15 sites to test concurrent care for patients in Medicare for three years. But Medicare has yet to take any concrete steps toward beginning it. "It is [...]
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