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Jul 19 2012

Bloomberg

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Health Law Birth-Control Mandate Survives States’ Suit

Jul 18 2012

Health Leaders Media

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States that sit on the sidelines waiting for the results of the November election before they commit to healthcare reform and health insurance exchanges will face a “herculean effort” to establish their exchanges

Jul 18 2012

US News

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A new study finds that so-called “safety-net” hospitals that serve the poor do a worse job overall than other hospitals, a potentially big problem as health care reform boosts the number of people who have insurance and more choice about where they can go for care.

Jul 18 2012

Politico

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The CMS dual eligible demonstration program enrollment has far exceeded CMS’s early expectations, and provider and advocacy groups warn the size of what was meant to be a pilot program has effectively turned it into the equivalent of a waiver.

Jul 18 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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On nearly every measure of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey patient experience questionnaire, 769 hospitals that treat the largest share of low-income patients scored 5.6 percentage points lower than their 2,327 non-safety net counterpart

Jul 18 2012

PR Newswire

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Science Applications International Corporation today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire maxIT Healthcare Holdings, Inc., a leading healthcare IT (Information Technology) consulting firm based in Westfield, Ind.

Jul 18 2012

Rand on CDHP

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No matter how controversial they may be, consumer-directed health plans with their higher cost-sharing continue to spread rapidly. A Rand Corporation brief examines the evidence on the effect of these…

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Jul 17 2012

NPR.org

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When Does An App Need FDA’s Blessing?

Jul 17 2012

Washington Post

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CBO says military health-care costs could soar

Jul 17 2012

Yahoo Finance

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Life Technologies Corporation today announced the acquisition of Navigenics, Inc. – Expands Life Technologies’ Capabilities in Diagnostics

Jul 17 2012

Medpagetoday

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Among obese veterans, bariatric surgery — predominantly gastric bypass — was not associated with lower healthcare expenditures in the 3 years after the operation, researchers found.

Jul 17 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Opponents of the health-care overhaul are seizing on how tax credits to buy insurance are distributed as a new front in their fight against the law.

Jul 17 2012

IBJ.com

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The immediate reaction on Wall Street to last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding President Obama’s health care law was to buy hospital stocks and dump health insurance stocks. But at least one analyst expects the long-term outcome to be exactly opposite of that.

Jul 17 2012

IMS Drug Report

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IMS has a tremendous amount of information on prescription drug use and their reports are always worth paying attention to. The latest provides their outlook through 2016, finding steady increases…

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Jul 16 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Physicians added their voices on Wednesday to the intractable task of finding an informed solution to the sustainable growth rate