Kevin Roche – Page 688 – Healthy Skeptic

Nov 16 2011

Reuters

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Uninsured Americans tend to be discharged from the hospital somewhat sooner than those with health coverage, regardless of the medical condition itself, a new study finds.

Nov 16 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Landlords to nursing homes are being sent to the sick house by investors who fear that deep cuts in Medicare spending will siphon off rent payments.

Nov 16 2011

Wall Street Journal

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ObamaCare authorizes premium assistance in state-run exchanges but not federal ones. In other words, states that refuse to create an exchange can block much of ObamaCare’s spending and practically force Congress to reopen the law for revisions.

Nov 16 2011

Washington Post

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The latest figures from the National Venture Capital Association indicate that Silicon Valley venture capitalists are migrating out of healthcare and medical IT investments to focus on Internet-related deals

Nov 16 2011

Bloomberg

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A former Vitas Healthcare Corp. manager has accused the hospice chain of defrauding the federal government by conspiring with health insurers to enroll Medicare patients who weren’t dying.

Nov 16 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Deficit-reduction proposals to change the structure of Medicare would increase costs for most current beneficiaries, a new study has found.

Nov 16 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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An online personal wellness game created by Hartford, CT-based health insurer Aetna in partnership with Seattle-based social media company Mindbloom is engaging and engaging patients.

Nov 16 2011

New York Times

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What will happen to the 30 million uninsured Americans the law intends to cover, will be up in the air if the mandate at the heart of the law — is struck down.

Nov 16 2011

Kaiser Health News

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South Carolina’s top health official will recommend this week that the state decline creating its own health insurance exchange, one of the central tenets of President Barack Obama’s health care law.

Nov 16 2011

Medicare Disease Management Pilots

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A final summary of Medicare's disease management pilots gives a bleak picture of the value of the efforts. While there are design and methodological critiques of the Medicare program that…

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Nov 15 2011

New York Times

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Doctors who earn money for cardiac stress testing are much more likely to prescribe the tests than those who don’t, a new study has found.

Nov 15 2011

PR Newswire

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Landauer, Inc. Announces Acquisition of IZI Medical Products, LLC

Nov 15 2011

GoveHealthIT.com

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The Top 5 roadblocks HIEs face

Nov 15 2011

Bloomberg

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Aetna Inc. will cut some co-payments on drugs aimed at preventing heart attacks after a study showed patients took their medicines and were healthier when there were no out-of- pocket costs for their treatments

Nov 15 2011

McClatchydc.com

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In the scramble to come up with a deficit-reduction deal by Thanksgiving, members of Capitol Hill’s supercommittee appear to have one group squarely in their crosshairs: high-income Medicare beneficiaries.