SAMHSA’s Weekly Financing News Pulse: National Edition

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National News
• HHS Will Not Request Additional FY2011 Budget Funds for Reform, Insurers Begin Dependent Coverage Early, IRS Action on Reform, MLR Report Released by Senate Committee, Lawsuit Expands to 20 States
• House Approves Veterans Legislation with Mental Health Components
• Update: President Obama Nominates Berwick as CMS Administrator
• Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Drug Free Communities Enhancement Act of 2010
• CMSS Releases New Ethics Code
• Representatives Introduce EHR Funding Parity Legislation
• CMS Proposes Cuts to Medicare Operating Payments to Acute Care Hospitals, Increase to Long-Term Care Hospitals
• Deputy Director of ONDCP to Resign
• Polls Finds Favorable View of Reform, Confusion Prevails

Studies Released
• Express Scripts Releases Drug Trend Report
• KFF Releases Three Briefs on Health Care Reform
• Commonwealth Fund Brief Examines GEM as Foundation for Reform
• AIS Publishes Managed Medicare and Medicaid Factbook

Around the Hill: Hearings on Health Financing
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