Kevin Roche – Page 724 – Healthy Skeptic

Sep 21 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Several groups are pushing to make findings from the Joint Commission, and all hospital accreditation survey findings, open to the public.

Sep 21 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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The Independent Payment Advisory Board received a presidential vote of confidence on Monday when the Obama administration released its deficit reduction plan.

Sep 21 2011

New York Times

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Starting this year, insurers will be required under the Affordable Care Act to completely cover such services as annual physicals, childhood vaccinations and dozens of screening tests for everything from high blood pressure to abdominal aortic aneurysms.

Sep 21 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Using a game called “Foldit,” which was released by the University of Washington, players have deciphered the crystal structure of a protein that causes Aids in rhesus monkeys

Sep 21 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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If one word encapsulates the focus of last week’s American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration annual convention, that word is “engagement.”

Sep 21 2011

Hospital Readmissions

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A paper prepared by Mathematica for the New York State Health Foundation discussions readmissions in the state and evaluates proposed methods of reducing those readmissions. Just in New York, billions…

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Sep 20 2011

PR Newswire

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Concentra, a subsidiary of Humana Inc., announced today it has expanded its customer base and reach in the Atlanta market with the acquisition of NextCare, Inc.’s four urgent care medical centers.

Sep 20 2011

Yahoo.com

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Water Street Healthcare Partners Completes Sale and Recapitalization of CareCentrix

Sep 20 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Congress should repeal the controversial Sustainable Growth Rate, or SGR and offset the loss revenues by freezing primary care increases for 10 years while doctors providing more specialized services would endure cuts of 5.9% in each of three years, then frozen for the remainder of the 10 years.

Sep 20 2011

Bloomberg

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WellPoint and two nonprofit health insurers purchased a 78 percent stake today in Bloom Health, a closely held benefits company in Minneapolis

Sep 20 2011

NPR.org

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President Obama’s plan to cut the deficit doesn’t exactly spare Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health programs.

Sep 20 2011

New York Times

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Several major health insurers have agreed to provide their claims data on a regular basis to academic researchers, in an unusual agreement that they say will open a window onto the rising costs of health care.

Sep 20 2011

Wall Street Journal

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A new federal proposal to give all patients in the U.S. direct electronic access to their lab results could make it easier to track important health markers like cholesterol levels and the body’s response to blood thinners – – with an iPhone.

Sep 20 2011

Fiscal Times

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Worried that the federal government could end up running new insurance marketplaces for dozens of states, the Obama administration is making a new pitch for cooperation

Sep 20 2011

Health Plan and Hospital Market Concentration

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Hospitals and other providers have expressed concern that health plan consolidation jeopardizes the adequacy of reimbursement to providers but a new piece of research indicates that hospital consolidation is a…

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