Kevin Roche – Page 693 – Healthy Skeptic

Nov 03 2011

AHRQ on Provider Performance Reporting

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The world's aflame with reporting on provider quality and cost performance. Making sure the information is complete, accurate and credible is no simple task, as a recent Agency for Healthcare…

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Nov 02 2011

Bloomberg

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Medicare payments for outpatient services will rise 1.9 percent to $41 billion and dialysis clinics, cancer centers and ambulatory surgery facilities also are scheduled to receive modest fee increases

Nov 02 2011

Information Week

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An AmericanEHR Partners report reveals doctors need at least three to five days of EHR training, but nearly half (49.3%) receive three or fewer days

Nov 02 2011

New York Times

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Though hospitals are eligible for billions of dollars in federal stimulus money to bring their facilities into the digital age to save money and improve the quality of health care, just one in 10 is ready to meet government standards

Nov 02 2011

More Trashing of the US Health System

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From the Commonwealth Fund comes another in a series of reports bemoaning the woeful inadequacy of the American health system, especially compared to those in other developed countries. Whatever our…

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Nov 02 2011

PR Newswire

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CRC Health Group, the nation’s largest network of behavioral health and addiction treatment services, today announced the successful acquisition of North Carolina’s Mountain Health Solutions outpatient treatment centers

Nov 02 2011

PBS.org

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President Obama signs an Executive Order directing the Food and Drug Administration to take action to help prevent and reduce prescription drug shortages

Nov 01 2011

Bloomberg

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Medicare payments to home health agencies would fall by more than $400 million, or 2.3 percent, in 2012 under a U.S. regulation issued today.

Nov 01 2011

Wall Street Journal

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A $5 billion fund created as part of the health-care overhaul to pay for health insurance for early retirees will run out of money by September 2012

Nov 01 2011

Politico

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As Nov. 23 and the devil’s bargain made last August approaches, Congress must come up with a $1.2 trillion deficit-reduction plan by Thanksgiving.

Nov 01 2011

Kaiser Health News

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A lawsuit challenging Maine’s authority over health insurers’ profit margins is drawing national attention from state regulators worried about the impact on their power to hold down rate increases.

Nov 01 2011

Specialty Pharmacy

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Specialty drugs have gotten the attention of all payers, with multiple efforts underway to manage the exploding costs associated with this category. A new paper from URAC summarizes the issues…

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Oct 31 2011

New York Times

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Obama will issue an executive order on Monday that the administration hopes will help resolve a growing number of critical shortages of vital medicines used to treat life-threatening illnesses

Oct 31 2011

Wall Street Journal

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If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Big managed health-care companies are starting to take that idea to heart. These insurers are facing the double whammy of market saturation and margin-squeezing health-care reform.