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        "uri": "/2024/03/13/despite-employer-insurance-americans-unprepared-for-medical-bills-delay-care/",
        "title": "Despite employer insurance, Americans unprepared for medical bills, delay care",
        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
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        "prettyDate": "March 13, 2024",
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        "summary": "Four in 10 adults do not feel prepared to face an unexpected out-of-pocket medical expense.",
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        "uri": "/2024/03/12/163727/",
        "title": "CMS: Emergency funding available to health care providers disrupted by cyberattack",
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        "prettyDate": "March 12, 2024",
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        "summary": "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services emphasized that the accelerated and advance payments, aimed at providers facing significant cash flow problems, are not loans and cannot be forgiven, in its Saturday announcement.",
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        "uri": "/2024/03/12/thrive-or-restrict-remote-work-wins-as-flexibility-fuels-project-success/",
        "title": "Thrive or restrict: Remote work wins as flexibility fuels project success",
        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
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        "prettyDate": "March 12, 2024",
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        "summary": "Only 10% of organizations expect in-person work all of the time.",
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        "uri": "/2024/03/11/despite-increased-focus-by-employers-workers-expect-more-wellbeing-benefits/",
        "title": "Despite increased focus by employers, workers expect more wellbeing benefits",
        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
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        "prettyDate": "March 11, 2024",
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        "summary": "A troublesome 2 in 3 employees would change their jobs for better benefits, and 46% of workers are actively considering a job change in 2024.",
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        "title": "4 top drugmakers present their case to overturn Medicare price negotiation program",
        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
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        "prettyDate": "March 11, 2024",
        "timeToRead": "2 minute",
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        "summary": "Bristol Myers Squibb, Novo Nordisk, Novartis and Johnson & Johnson presented their arguments on Thursday in New Jersey district court, just a week after a similar AstraZeneca suit was dismissed by a federal judge in Delaware.",
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        "uri": "/2024/03/08/federal-appeals-court-heard-arguments-in-acas-preventive-care-mandate-case/",
        "title": "Federal appeals court hears arguments in ACA's free preventive care mandate case",
        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
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        "prettyDate": "March 08, 2024",
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        "summary": "For now, insurers and employers are still not required to cover certain free preventive care services, such as cancer screenings and HIV-preventing medications, until the federal appeals court makes its decision later this year.",
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        "title": "CMS offers financial relief to providers affected by Change Healthcare outage",
        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
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        "prettyDate": "March 08, 2024",
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        "summary": "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is assisting providers that are struggling financially during what the AMA calls the \"most significant and consequential incident of its kind against the U.S. health-care system in history,\"",
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        "uri": "/2024/03/08/key-health-care-takeaways-from-president-bidens-state-of-the-union-speech/",
        "title": "Key health care takeaways from President Biden's State of the Union speech",
        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
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        "prettyDate": "March 08, 2024",
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        "summary": "President Joe Biden made health care affordability a centerpiece of Thursday evening's address, announcing he is calling on Congress to expand the $2,000 out-of-pocket Medicare prescription cap to all private insurance.",
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        "uri": "/2024/03/08/workers-cry-for-choice-employer-health-plans-leave-everyone-upset/",
        "title": "Workers cry for choice: Employer health plans leave everyone upset",
        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
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        "prettyDate": "March 08, 2024",
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        "summary": "Just 3% of health system executives and 7% of health plan executives have a positive outlook for 2024.",
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        "title": "Mark Cuban and FTC's Lina Khan at White House to discuss PBM reform",
        "byline": "Alan Goforth",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "March 07, 2024",
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        "summary": "Cost Plus Drugs CEO Mark Cuban was invited to the White House, along with other business and government leaders, to discuss PBM reform, while a trade group for pharmacy benefit managers said they were not invited.",
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