Kevin Roche – Page 632 – Healthy Skeptic

May 23 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Congressional Republicans are divided over what to do if the Supreme Court strikes down all or part of the health-care overhaul next month.

May 23 2012

More on Specialty Drug Spending

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Another report that looks at specialty drug spending is issued by the Center for Studying Health System Change. Due to different characteristics of this category, the authors are pessimistic about…

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May 22 2012

The Atlantic

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A new study finds that patients’ opinions of the care they receive can be quite different from the actual quality of the medical care. More alarming is that opinions and experiences vary greatly by race.

May 22 2012

Bloomberg

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Romney Is About to Make Bush’s Health-Care Blunder

May 22 2012

New York Times

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A Long View on Health Care: Think Like an Investor

May 22 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Although the code set change is intended to be revenue neutral, ICD-10 includes more than 155,000 codes, a significant expansion from the current 17,000 codes in ICD-9. The transition touches nearly every member of a hospital or health system

May 22 2012

Wall Street Journal

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The University of Notre Dame, the Archdiocese of New York and 41 other Roman Catholic institutions sued the Obama administration in federal court Monday, the latest push against a requirement in the health-care-overhaul law that employers cover contraception in workers’ health plans.

May 22 2012

The Hill

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Tax credits in President Obama’s healthcare law aren’t big enough to prompt small businesses to start offering healthcare benefits, the Government Accountability Office said Monday.

May 22 2012

KaiserHealth News

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Trained Interpreters For Patients With Limited English Can Help Avoid Medical Mishaps

May 22 2012

InformationWeek.com

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New figures from Surescripts reveal that at the end of 2011, 58% (or 317,000) of office-based physicians were using e-prescribing tools to fill prescriptions, versus only 36% (190,000) in 2010.

May 21 2012

New York Times

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DaVita, an operator of kidney dialysis clinics throughout the United States, agreed on Monday to buy HealthCare Partners, which runs medical groups in several states, for $4.4 billion.

May 21 2012

New York Times

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Nearly one in four American adolescents may be on the verge of developing Type 2 diabetes

May 21 2012

Washington Post

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Data trove – previously confidential information, scrubbed of identifying details, is being provided by three of the nation’s largest insurance companies whose combined customers account for about 20 percent of Americans under age 65.

May 21 2012

KaiserHealth News

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Higher prices charged by hospitals, outpatient centers and other providers drove up health care spending at double the rate of inflation during the economic downturn– even as patients consumed less medical care overall

May 21 2012

Bloomberg

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A $6.4 billion effort to speed U.S. reviews of new drugs and medical devices is a step closer to law.