Kevin Roche – Page 828 – Healthy Skeptic

Dec 17 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Patients with mental and behavioral health issues rather than physical ailments often cause a bottleneck in hospital emergency rooms for “up to a week or more” because inpatient psychiatric beds are lacking

Dec 17 2010

Bloomberg

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The Obama administration’s health- care reform should be thrown out because it overreaches the federal government’s authority, opponents argued in a Florida lawsuit

Dec 17 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The number of hospitalists has increased to more than 30,000 and a report cited by The Hospitalist this fall shows that median compensation for adult hospitalists is $215,000 per year.

Dec 17 2010

nextgov.com

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For hospital IT executives who are trying to meet federal “meaningful use” standards for electronic health records by early spring, it was a rough fall.

Dec 17 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Under a little-known provision of the health overhaul law, insurers will be required to provide their benefits information on a standardized chart using the same plain English terms as other companies

Dec 17 2010

Fiscal Times

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Opponents of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law are a cheering a federal court ruling that one of its core provisions is unconstitutional. They may not realize that Obama has a fallback option that also could do the job.

Dec 17 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The Obama Administration is looking for sophisticated fraud-fighting tools which could enable federal agencies to catch illegal Medicare and Medicaid practices as they happen.

Dec 17 2010

New York Times

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The president’s bioethics commission has concluded that there is no need to temporarily halt research or to impose new regulations on the controversial new field known as synthetic biology.

Dec 17 2010

Wall Street Journal

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In a bid to cash in on its high-quality but expensive medical industry Japan said Friday it will ease visa requirements to encourage the flow of wealthy travelers seeking medical treatment here

Dec 17 2010

Wall Street Journal

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If you’re a Medicare beneficiary, a new study finds the odds of either ending up dead or back in the hospital within a year are 62%.

Dec 17 2010

AP News

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The administrations crackdown on health care fraud is paying dividends, recovering more than $4 billion in Massachusetts alone during the past two years.

Dec 17 2010

The Costs of EHRs

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EHRs are coming and great benefits are promised in the quality of patient care. A new brief looks at the possible costs and cost benefits of EHRs, particularly for smaller…

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Dec 16 2010

Adult Day Care and Long-Term Care Surveys

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MetLife's Mature Market Institute does some excellent research in regard to aging the medical care and other needs of the elderly. Two new reports extend that tradition, describing long-term care…

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Dec 16 2010

The Hill

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Federal regulators have adopted at least 18 new rules since passage of the healthcare reform law eight and a half months ago, according to the Congressional Research Service

Dec 16 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The AMA is urging health insurers to automate and streamline the current cumbersome preauthorization process so physicians can manage patient care more efficiently