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Jun 11 2012

Bloomberg

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UnitedHealth Group Inc. said it will offer some benefits and consumer protections created by the U.S. health-care overhaul even if the law is struck down by the Supreme Court. The exception: Those involving people with pre- existing illnesses.

Jun 11 2012

Wall Street Journal

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IntegraMed America Inc., which develops and manages health care facilities that specialize in fertility and vein care, is being acquired by a group led by one of its shareholders, Sagard Capital Partners LP, for about $168.6 million.

Jun 11 2012

Washington Post

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Republicans say Obama administration wasn’t transparent on health-care law

Jun 11 2012

Medpagetoday.com

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While the U.S. health system has the highest per capita cost of the 12 nations studied — spending 17.6% of its gross domestic product on healthcare — it ranked at the bottom in terms of readiness to implement a value-based care system

Jun 08 2012

ehealthnews.eu

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GE and Microsoft announced they have completed the formation of Caradigm™, a 50-50 joint venture aimed at enabling health systems and professionals to use real-time, organization-wide intelligence to improve healthcare quality and the patient experience.

Jun 08 2012

Bizjournals

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CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield will pay out around $23 million to doctors whose patients’ health care costs came in lower than what was expected.

Jun 08 2012

InformationWeek

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Health IT specialists will soon want to know more about a field called geo-medicine, which combines geographic information system (GIS) software with clinical databases to provide insights that might improve individual and population health

Jun 08 2012

Bloomberg

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Fees that health insurers will be required to pay the U.S. government starting in 2014 will give nonprofits such as Kaiser Permanente a market advantage over corporate competitors,

Jun 08 2012

Wasington Post

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For 14 months, a bipartisan group of 17 states has been quietly collaborating with the Obama administration to help build a foundation for the health-care reform law’s success.

Jun 08 2012

Fiscal Times

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House Republicans on Thursday repealed the medical device tax included in the 2010 health care reform law to help pay for coverage of the uninsured.

Jun 08 2012

NPR.org

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The full genetic code of a fetus has been cracked. The technique, used by scientists at the University of Washington, could offer parents safer and more comprehensive prenatal testing in the future. The ethical questions that arise from this kind of testing abound.

Jun 08 2012

The Hill

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The Health and Human Services Department has missed nearly half of its legal deadlines while implementing President Obama’s healthcare law, according to an analysis by the American Action Forum.

Jun 08 2012

Components of Hospital Cost Increases

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A new Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality Statistical Brief decomposes the sources of inpatient hospital cost increases from 1997 to 2008, which is important to understand given that hospital…

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Jun 07 2012

InformationWeek

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wants to better define the “essential benefits” that non-grandfathered health plans participating in the state health insurance exchanges must offer.

Jun 07 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Some hospitals and health systems are starting to figure out there’s a better way to get reimbursed, one that is less stressful for the patient and more efficient for the provider.