Kevin Roche – Page 796 – Healthy Skeptic

Mar 03 2011

theinsurancenation.com

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Advocated of the exchanges say if insures like Blue Cross Blue Shield oversee those exchanges, it would be like the fox guarding the hen house.

Mar 03 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Two senators, a Republican and a Democrat, are pushing legislation to overturn a 1979 court injunction that bars the public from seeing what individual physicians earn from Medicare.

Mar 03 2011

Star Tribune

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Regis Salons estimates it could cost $70 million to $90 million to provide health care coverage for roughly 32,000 workers that would be eligible in 2014, if Regis dropped coverage and let workers purchase insurance on their own, the penalty could cost half that — $40 million.

Mar 03 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Arizona Medicaid Cuts Spur Debate Over Impact On Providers

Mar 03 2011

Latest Dartmouth Atlas Work

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The latest Dartmouth Atlas work looks at variation in elective surgery rates in the context of patient involvement in decision-making. The report highlights differences in treatment for a number of…

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Mar 02 2011

The Hill

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The Obama administration expressed strong support for repealing the 1099 reporting provision included in the healthcare law but is concerned about how the cost of the measure is offset

Mar 02 2011

New York Times

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41,467 Pennsylvanians who had been covered by adultBasic, a state-subsidized insurance program for the working poor, woke up Tuesday without insurance – the governor shut it down on Monday in one of the largest dis-enrollments in recent memory.

Mar 02 2011

Wall Street Journal

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ADP Acquires AdvancedMD, A Leading Provider of Cloud-based Solutions for Practice Management, Electronic Health Records, and Revenue Cycle Management

Mar 02 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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A relaxation of the MOE (maintenance-of-effort) provisions will push many low-income Americans off Medicaid rolls, thereby increasing the number of uninsured

Mar 02 2011

LA Times

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Families USA points out that ACA law would cap how much people with insurance must spend out of their pockets for healthcare services, starting in 2014 – $5,950 for an individual and $11,900 for a family of any size.

Mar 02 2011

Workers’ Compensation and Return to Work in California

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It is sometimes overlooked that one of the goals of a workers' compensation system should be to get employees back to work as soon as possible. A Rand brief looks…

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Mar 01 2011

Fiscal Times

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The president on Monday rejected a plan promoted by conservative Republican governors to turn Medicaid, the joint federal-state program that provides health care for the poor, into a block grant program

Mar 01 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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The study of select Highmark employer group wellness programs showed that the savings per participant was $332 a year

Mar 01 2011

PR Newswire

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HealthFitness, an award-winning provider of employee health and fitness solutions, has acquired the assets of Focused Health Solutions

Mar 01 2011

USNews.com

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Half of U.S. adults still oppose the “individual mandate” clause in the new health care reform law that requires all Americans not already insured to purchase health insurance, while only 22 percent support it, a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll finds.