Kevin Roche – Page 701 – Healthy Skeptic

Jan 12 2012

Bloomberg

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The offer of a fitness club membership is helping insurers including UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Humana Inc. draw healthier and less costly patients to their Medicare programs

Jan 12 2012

Medpagetoday

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Use of guideline-recommended cancer therapy increased by more than 50% when oncologists included a tumor’s gene expression profile in the decision-making process, according to a study reported here.

Jan 12 2012

National Journal

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The federal government could save $148 billion over 10 years by increasing Medicare eligibility two years to age 67, the Congressional Budget Office reported on Tuesday.

Jan 12 2012

New York Times

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To help prevent overtesting and overtreatment of older patients — or undertreatment for those who remain robust at advanced ages — medical guidelines increasingly call for doctors to consider life expectancy as a factor in their decision-making

Jan 12 2012

Reuters

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By threatening a loss of federal funds, Congress unconstitutionally coerced states into expanding their Medicaid programs, the states led by Florida argued.

Jan 12 2012

Medscape.com

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Repealing Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula for physician pay — a goal that always seems just out of reach — poses a dilemma for lawmakers that could make the measure even harder to pass.

Jan 12 2012

Health Spending Growth and Trend

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The official report on national health spending for 2010 has been finalized by the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The increase over 2009…

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Jan 11 2012

BusinessWire

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MedData, Inc., a leading provider of medical billing services, announced today the acquisition of MedDirect, Inc., a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based patient services company.

Jan 11 2012

MedPageToday

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Community-based weight-loss programs have not been shown to be effective at reducing the incidence of diabetes, so implementing a national program would likely be money down the drain

Jan 11 2012

USA Today

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As USA grays, elder abuse risk and need for shelters grow

Jan 11 2012

Washington Post

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Some doctors want your credit card number before they’ll make an appointment

Jan 11 2012

Bloomberg

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WebMD Health Corp., the Internet provider of medical information, plunged the most in almost six months after saying it ended discussions on a possible sale of the company and the chief executive officer resigned

Jan 11 2012

The Hill

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The 26 states challenging President Obama’s healthcare law sought to link the law’s Medicaid expansion to its individual insurance mandate in a brief filed with the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Jan 11 2012

Kaiser Health News

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Measuring Quality: 368 New Ideas For 2012

Jan 11 2012

Medicare Advantage Marketing

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Research in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that Medicare Advantage health plans use offering of certain non-required benefits, like fitness club memberships, to attract and retain healthier beneficiaries,…

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