In a study of medical home implementation at federally qualified health centers, researchers found that costs increased.
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This is what happens when you don't have a fruit in your company name, you get sold. Nursing home pharmacy chain Pharmerica is being bought by a PE firm for $1.4 billion. No word yet on whether the name will be changed to Pharnana.
https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/kkr-to-buy-pharmerica-corp-for-1-4-bln/Must be a fruity day, as Limelight Health garners $7 million in new funding for its employee health benefits enrollment, etc. software. What's next--a company named Apple?
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/limelight-health-raises-7-million-to-expand-employee-benefits-quote-to-enrollment-platform-300497409.htmlResearch in Health Affairs finds that end-of-life spending, across several countries, is lower than previously reported.
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Now that reforming the reform law appears to be off the table for a while, here are the top health issues that Congress should, but probably won't address.
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Another Government Accounting Office report finds that patients find it hard to use EHR information even when they have access to it.
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In another flawed hatchet job on the US health care system, the Commonwealth Fund claims it is terrible compared to other developed countries.
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A Government Accounting Office report examines the characteristics of Medicare Advantage members who disenroll.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.