Kevin Roche – Page 612 – Healthy Skeptic

Aug 02 2012

SF Gate

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Doctors charge their patients an annual fee and in turn give them more time and attention.

Aug 02 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Restaurants and retailers face some of the toughest changes now that the Supreme Court has kept the overhaul in place. These industries historically are among the least likely to provide insurance to workers.

Aug 02 2012

Sacramento Business Journal

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Masimo Enters Noninvasive Multigas Monitoring, including Capnography, with Acquisition of PHASEIN

Aug 02 2012

Boston Business Journal

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Haemonetics Completes Acquisition of Pall’s Transfusion Medicine Business

Aug 02 2012

MedPageToday

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CBO: Delays in SGR Cuts to Cost $271 Billion

Aug 02 2012

Kaiser Health News

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App-Happy Health Care Full of Optimism, Money

Aug 02 2012

Characteristics of Home Health Care Episodes

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The Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation sponsored a useful report on characteristics of home health care and other post-acute care services by Medicare beneficiaries, with a focus on…

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Aug 01 2012

Wall Street Journal

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The law requires employers to begin including contraception and other women’s services in workers’ insurance plans without charging employees co-payments AND distribute millions of dollars in insurance-company refunds to workers whose plans spent a high percentage of their premium dollars on administrative expenses.

Aug 01 2012

Minnpost.com

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In the 1980s, most clinical trials took place at universities and other academic institutions. By 2005, more than 70 percent of U.S. clinical trials were being done by nonacademic physicians. In fact, the number of private-sector physicians involved in these studies climbed from 4,000 in 1990 to a staggering 20,250 in 2010.

Aug 01 2012

Foxnews.com

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Remote monitoring of intensive care patients can cost hospitals anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 per bed in the first year of operation – whether this investment pays off in the long run by improving ICU patients’ care and saving money is still unknown.

Aug 01 2012

Reuters

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A private equity consortium is aiming to scoop-up lab-testing company, Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings in a huge leveraged buyout

Aug 01 2012

NPR.org

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Beginning today, most new and renewing health insurance plans must begin offering a broad array of women’s preventive health services, most notably coverage of birth control, at no upfront cost.

Aug 01 2012

Baltimore Sun

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RFID tags help University of Maryland Medical Center track emergency drugs – Technology attached to crash cart drugs helps reduce errors

Aug 01 2012

Imaging Utilization Slows

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Imaging has been a poster boy for alleged excessive and inappropriate utilization, resulting in higher than necessary spending. A study reported in Health Affairs finds that, for Medicare and commercial…

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Jul 31 2012

Bloomberg

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Google-Backed 23andMe Asks FDA to Clear DNA Evaluation Service