News outlets report on a pilot project in Utah to reduce overuse of services and Medicaid cuts in Kansas. The Utah project seeks to reduce "overuse of health care," which is partly related to the fee-for-service system of care. The Salt Lake Tribune reports: "As part of its 10-year effort to reform the health system, the Legislature in 2009 passed House Bill 165, directing the Office of Consumer Health Services to get providers and payers together to devise health care delivery and payment reform plans...
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