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Jul 27 2012

LA Times

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After years of shipping data-processing, accounting and other back-office work abroad, some healthcare companies are starting to shift clinical services and decision-making on medical care overseas

Jul 27 2012

InformationWeek

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The U.S. market for advanced patient monitoring systems has grown from $3.9 billion in 2007 to $8.9 billion in 2011 and is forecast to reach $20.9 billion by 2016, according to a study by Kalorama Information.

Jul 27 2012

Bloomberg

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Health insurance executives who met at the White House yesterday to mark their contributions to fighting fraud told the Obama administration that the cost of those efforts shouldn’t be counted toward profit limits that were imposed under the 2010 U.S. health-care overhaul.

Jul 27 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Under the Premier program, launched July 23, participants will share best practices and data with other members, and focus on improving care and reducing costs in hip/knee replacement, lumbar spine fusion, coronary artery bypass graft, heart valve replacement, percutaneous coronary intervention, and colon resection.

Jul 27 2012

Fiscal Times

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Disability payments from Social Security have evolved into a lifeline and an economic trap for millions of unemployed Americans threatening the program with insolvency in just four short years.

Jul 27 2012

2012 Potpourri XXIII

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At the height of the summer, with dryness across the land, there is no drought of information in our Potpourri, this week including use of an interactive health record to…

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Jul 26 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Of all the healthcare providers most severely impacted by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ruling last month, public safety net hospitals, of which there are 1,000 in this country, are at the top of the list.

Jul 26 2012

Washington Post

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Instead of renewing their efforts against the law as a whole, his team of lawyers and lobbyists has pinpointed three particularly onerous elements they believe can be made less burdensome for small business owners, either through legislative or regulatory action.

Jul 26 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Healthcare services, which includes physician groups, hospitals, and managed care, recorded 133 transactions valued at $23.1 billion in second quarter 2012 compared with 139 transactions valued at $7.3 billion for second quarter 2011.

Jul 26 2012

Bloomberg

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Aetna Joins With Medical Group as Insurer-Provider Lines Blur

Jul 26 2012

Fiscal Times

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The mean cost of the hospital stay rose from a range of $3,900 to $5,300 under standard care to $4,000 to $6,800 in the CT scan group, an increase of anywhere from $100 to $1,500

Jul 26 2012

Patient Satisfaction

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Patient satisfaction and patient-centered care are two health care movements which are being incented and rewarded by various government and private payer programs, but a Perspective in the Journal of…

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Jul 25 2012

New York Times

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An eight-story commercial office and laboratory building nearing completion in the Louisville central business district signals the steady expansion of the city’s biggest new economic sector — a field local development specialists call “lifelong wellness and aging care.”

Jul 25 2012

Bloomberg

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WebMD, which gets more than 80 percent of revenue from advertising and sponsorships, said it expects customers to “re-evaluate expenditures,” including marketing, as they deal with drug-patent expirations and delays in product approvals.

Jul 25 2012

Fiscal Times

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CBO: Supreme Court Decision Lowers Obamacare Costs