Kevin Roche – Page 686 – Healthy Skeptic

Nov 22 2011

New York Times

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Patients, Too, Turn to the Internet for Fund-Raising

Nov 22 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Super Committee Fail: Healthcare Companies Warn of Risks

Nov 22 2011

The Uninsured and the Price of Insurance

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How many people will enroll in the coverage offered via the reform law in 2014 either in Medicaid or commercial coverage? A new paper based on survey work suggests it…

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Nov 21 2011

Politico

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The Department of Health and Human Services has denied Indiana’s and Louisiana’s requests for temporary relief from health reform’s medical loss ratio requirements, making them the third and fourth states to have their applications rejected outright

Nov 21 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Cigna to Offer Health Insurance in India

Nov 21 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Uninsured patients spend less time in the hospital than insured patients, according to a study that suggests that ability to pay plays a greater role than medical need when determining length of stay.

Nov 21 2011

Kaiser Health News

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In-store medical clinics like those at Walmart – whose clinics treat healthy patients looking for convenient, low-cost care for simple problems – are eyeing a bigger prize, the millions of Americans with costly illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease.

Nov 21 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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After a subsequent flurry of counter-complaints, HRSA opened the “bad doc” the database to the public, but with so many restrictions on use of the database, some say it’s virtually useless as a tool

Nov 21 2011

The Efficacy of Rehospitalization Interventions

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The Annals of Internal Medicine carries a study on the effectiveness of interventions to reduce the 30-day readmissions rate. This meta-review found little consistent evidence to support the value of…

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Nov 21 2011

New York Times

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Foster children are being prescribed cocktails of powerful antipsychosis drugs just as frequently as some of the most mentally disabled youngsters on Medicaid

Nov 21 2011

New York Times

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Supreme Court Names Two Lawyers to Argue Points in Health Care Law

Nov 21 2011

Wall Street Journal

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When it comes to addressing health care, the debate in the U.S. is just a drop in the global bucket. The developing world is facing a host of health-care challenges—whose economic effects reach all the way to America’s shores.

Nov 18 2011

KaiserHealth News

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The Walmart Opportunity: Can Retailers Revamp Primary Care?

Nov 18 2011

Washington Post

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While there was no surprise over the Supreme Court’s decision Monday to review the 2010 health-care act’s insurance mandate, supporters of the law are reeling over the justices’ announcement that they will also consider a long-shot challenge to what many consider an even more central provision of the statute.

Nov 18 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Quashing Access to Data, Feds Muddle Commitment to Transparency