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Sep 06 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Donald Berwick, appointee to run Medicare and Medicaid, has described himself as “romantic about the NHS.” Given what goes on in British hospitals, Dr. Berwick really is a romantic, though not in the sense he means

Sep 06 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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DHHS announced Wednesday that three sets of grants and cooperative agreements totaling nearly $17 million have been made available for comparative effectiveness research.

Sep 04 2010

2010 Potpourri XXXII

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We have certainly labored over the Labor Day weekend version of the Potpourri, featuring relative performance of US and foreign medical school graduates, California health insurance hikes, non-for-profit hospital CEO…

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Sep 03 2010

Virtual Hospital Wards

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A Commonwealth Foundation Brief describes a "virtual ward" model developed in Great Britain to minimize hospitalizations for chronic disease patients. Early results are encouraging and similar models are being tried…

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Sep 03 2010

Kaiser Foundation

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Kaiser Foundation: 2010 Employee Health Benefit Survey Summary

Sep 03 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Mr. Wyden wrote, and “Because you and I believe that the heart of real health reform is affordability and not mandates, I wanted to bring this feature of Section 1332 to the attention of you and the legislature.”

Sep 03 2010

Bloomberg

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Worker contributions to employer- sponsored health-insurance premiums rose an average 14 percent this year to about $4,000 for U.S. families as employers shifted more costs to employees,

Sep 03 2010

Fiscal Times

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Fraud Alert: Regulators Probe Health Credit Cards

Sep 03 2010

New York Times

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How health policy commissions are incorporated into the MLR can have a significant impact on the economics of insurance brokers, whose future role in health care is of great concern to the commissioners.

Sep 03 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Veterans will be able to go to the VA website, click a simple blue button, and download or print their personal health records to share with doctors outside of the VA

Sep 03 2010

Bloomberg

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Almost half of Americans took at least one prescription drug per month in 2008, an increase of 10 percent over the past decade, a U.S. study found.

Sep 03 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Thomson Reuters has acquired healthcare benefits auditor and expense management consultants Healthcare Data Management, Inc., effective immediately. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Sep 03 2010

NPR

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With a law as long and as complex as the PPACA, it’s natural people are still a little confused about what it does and doesn’t do. Here are some of the more popular myths about the law

Sep 02 2010

USA Today

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Health care spending this year has grown at its slowest rate in a half-century, a sign that people are forgoing medical care during the recession, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds

Sep 02 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Total patient visits to physician offices were down 7.3% in July from the July 2009—the fourth consecutive month to post negative growth in physician visits. Overall, primary care visits were down by 5.7% for the month.