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Jun 20 2012

Washington Post

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U.S. health officials say the number of young adults with medical coverage grew by more than 3 million since the new health care overhaul took effect.

Jun 20 2012

Bizjournals.com

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Frazier Healthcare and Catalent Pharma Solutions, Inc., today announced they have closed the purchase and sale of Catalent’s U.S. commercial pharmaceutical packaging operations to Frazier.

Jun 20 2012

PE Hub

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ESO Solutions Inc., an Austin-based maker of software for the pre-hospital health care market, raised $4 million in funding from Austin Ventures. The Series B round will be used to bolster sales and marketing, among other growth efforts.

Jun 20 2012

What Will Medicare Really Cost?

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When the Congressional Budget Office and the Board of Trustees of the Medicare trust funds make projections about future Medicare expenditures and revenues, they are required to utilize current law,…

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Jun 19 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services posted two separate sets of data that provide nationwide statistics on its Recovery Auditor program.

Jun 19 2012

Washington Post

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Snapshots of 10 states with the biggest gap between pension assets and long-term obligations

Jun 19 2012

Bloomberg

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Health-Care Ruling Cloaked in Secrecy Spurs Guessing Game

Jun 19 2012

Bloomberg

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Ipad Toting Doctors Spur Venture Funding in Medical Apps

Jun 19 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Medicare’s fee-for-service benefit design should be changed to provide better protection against high out-of-pocket cost sharing and to create incentives to encourage beneficiaries to make better healthcare decisions, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) said

Jun 19 2012

EBRI Report on the CDHP Population

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Our next report related to consumer-directed, high deductible health insurance plans comes from the Employee Benefit Research Institute and describes the characteristics of people in these plans over the years…

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Jun 18 2012

Fiscal Times

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The Supreme Court’s imminent decision on the Affordable Care Act will trigger a political firestorm whether they accept the legislation in its entirety, throw out every page of the 906-page bill or do something in between

Jun 18 2012

Washington Post

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Recession-plagued states diverted scarce money away from pensions to pay for more immediate concerns, leaving a $757 billion hole in the retirement funds covering millions of public employees, according to a study released Monday.

Jun 18 2012

Kaiser Health News

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Some big employers are beefing up their clinic offerings further with a host of add-ons, including physical therapy, dental and vision exams, mental health counseling and even acupuncture and massage

Jun 18 2012

Yahoo.com

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Covering all the bases ahead of a momentous Supreme Court ruling, the Obama administration plans to move ahead with major parts of the president’s health care law if its most controversial provision does not survive

Jun 18 2012

AHIP on CDHP

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This week we will discuss several high deductible insurance plan reports. The first is from America's Health Insurance Plans and gives information on details of enrolllment and plan types.

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