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May 26 2011

Bizjournals.com

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MBF Healthcare Partners has merged its Omni Home Care, a home health care provider based in Coral Springs, with SunCrest Healthcare.

May 26 2011

New York Times

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The Obama administration is raising serious objections to a new Indiana law that cuts off state and federal money for Planned Parenthood clinics providing health care to low-income women on Medicaid.

May 26 2011

PBS.org

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Seven influential Republican senators wrote a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Medicare Chief Dr. Don Berwick on Tuesday demanding that the proposed ACO rules be withdrawn.

May 26 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Johns Hopkins Medicine and Walgreens said Wednesday they will collaborate on population-based research and jointly develop protocols to improve outcomes of patients with chronic diseases,

May 26 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Specialty physicians earned a median first-year guaranteed salary of $258,677 in multispecialty practices and $240,596 in single-specialty practices, while primary care physicians received a median first-year guaranteed salary of $165,000 in multispecialty practices and $172,400 in single specialty practices

May 26 2011

Miami Herald

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Yes, there’s a doctor in the house: Medical home visits grow

May 26 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Seventy-five percent of physicians in the United States have purchased an Apple mobile device such as an iPad, iPhone, or iPod, according to a Manhattan Research survey of 2,041 physicians during the first quarter of 2011.

May 26 2011

AP News

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IBM’s Watson computer system for work as a medical tool

May 26 2011

Medicare Trust Funds Alternative Scenario

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As noted in yesterday's post, the Trustees of the Medicare Hospital and Supplementary Funds recognized the inadequacy of the official projections of Medicare's financial condition, and therefore had an alternative,…

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May 25 2011

Medicare Trustees Report

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The Medicare Trustees have released the 2011 report on the status of the Medicare funds, indicating that they will be exhausted sooner than anticipated, due both to the recession and…

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May 25 2011

National Journal

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Medicare’s Actuary Paints a Darker Picture Than Trustees

May 25 2011

HeraldOnline

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Pioneer Behavioral Health and Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. today announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement.

May 25 2011

Bloomberg

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At the heart of the Ryan plan is a shift within Medicare toward consumer-directed health care -– which in turn is predicated on increasing beneficiaries’ “skin in the game” to make the health system more efficient.

May 25 2011

Information Week

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The Fitch Ratings analysis suggests that better informatics and adherence to quality standards really do drive the bottom line.

May 25 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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The practice installed check-in kiosks that are integrated with its payment management system. The kiosks alert patients to current and past balances—they can pay with the swipe of a credit or debit card