Kevin Roche – Page 709 – Healthy Skeptic

Sep 19 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Cigna Corp. is starting a national ad campaign Monday crafted to appeal to individual consumers, a sign of the industry’s growing focus on a segment that is set to expand substantially

Sep 19 2011

Washington Post

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Medicare costs are growing slower. Both in Medicare and in private insurance, the recession has correlated with patients using fewer medical services.

Sep 19 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Enrollment will increase and premium prices will drop as health plans prepare for the upcoming open enrollment period for Medicare Advantage

Sep 19 2011

PR Newswire

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MDC Partners Launches Integrated Healthcare Marketing Platform With Acquisition of Majority Stake in Concentric Pharma Advertising

Sep 19 2011

EHRs and Diabetes Care

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New research provides stronger evidence that using electronic health records may improve quality of care according to some measures more than continuing to use paper medical records, at least for…

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Sep 16 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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As ‘Super Committee’ Ponders Medicare Cuts, Actuaries Weigh In

Sep 16 2011

Govhealthit.com

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EHR incentive program ramps up to 90,000 providers

Sep 16 2011

Politico

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A new report adds fresh details to the conventional wisdom that a new long-term care insurance program is fiscally out of whack

Sep 16 2011

New York Times

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The National Joint Registry for England and Wales said that an all-metal artificial hip once sold by Johnson & Johnson had failed in an estimated one-third of the patients who had been followed for the longest time.

Sep 16 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Should the package set a national standard for health plans to cover a comprehensive set of benefits? Or is it more important that states have flexibility to determine what is “essential” based on their own markets.

Sep 16 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Even before MedPAC finalizes a long-term doc fix proposal, the complicated – and expensive – task is proving difficult.

Sep 16 2011

New York Times

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Three journalism organizations on Thursday protested a decision by the Obama administration to remove a database of physician discipline and malpractice actions from the Web.

Sep 16 2011

Govhealthit.com

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Physicians and hospitals signed up in droves in August to participate in the meaningful use incentive program, with 13,000 registering, a 30 percent jump from July

Sep 16 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Geisinger Health System and Intermountain Healthcare have declined to apply for the “Pioneer” program tailor-made by the Obama administration to reward such organizations.

Sep 16 2011

2011 Potpourri XXXVI

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The leaves begin to fall but not the quality of our Potpourri, this week including useful data on hospital readmissions in the VA system, what makes top hospitals successful, the…

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