Kevin Roche – Page 883 – Healthy Skeptic

Aug 26 2010

LA Times

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After months of being pummeled by Republican attacks on the new healthcare law, the Obama administration and its allies are striking back in an attempt to stem public disaffection with the health overhaul

Aug 26 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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After consumer marketing, cultivating lasting relationships with physicians is considered to be a hospital marketer’s greatest task

Aug 26 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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61% of employers said they plan to offer consumer-directed plans in 2011. Employers know that CDHP enrollees are “healthier” than average and that they tend to sip rather than guzzle health services.

Aug 26 2010

Reuters

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California regulators on Wednesday approved WellPoint Inc’s plan to raise rates for individual health insurance policies by an average of 14 percent,

Aug 26 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Under section 2718, insurers that fail to achieve these “medical loss ratio” targets must rebate the difference between their actual expenditures and the target to their customers

Aug 26 2010

Reimbursement Changes and Physician Behavior

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It is well-established that physicians respond to various economic incentives by changing their treatment behavior. A recent study explores this phenomenon in the context of Medicare's cancer chemotherapy drug reimbursement…

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Aug 25 2010

EON

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Healthsense, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation wireless sensors and remote monitoring solutions for the senior care market is pleased to announce the close of a growth capital financing round

Aug 25 2010

Bloomberg

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UnitedHealth Group Inc., the biggest U.S. insurer, and McKesson Corp., the largest drug distributor, are vying for billions of dollars in added sales by bulking up their information-technology units.

Aug 25 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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More than $22 million will go to the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program, which supports improvements in healthcare quality for any of 1,300 critical access hospitals, defined as hospitals with no more than 25 beds

Aug 25 2010

Fiscal Times

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A plan by Medicare to try to make it simpler for consumers to pick drug coverage could force 3 million seniors to switch plans next year whether they like it or not

Aug 25 2010

More On Palliative Care

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Palliative care has been extensively researched and the results indicate greater quality of life and patient satisfaction for persons with terminal illness. New research suggests it also extends survival.

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Aug 24 2010

Bloomberg

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U.S. funding of embryonic stem cell research approved by the President was halted by a federal judge who ruled that the work violates a law passed to bar the destruction of human embryos

Aug 24 2010

LA Times

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The new analysis found that 37 counties in California had uninsured rates above the statewide average of 24.3%

Aug 24 2010

New York Times

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Legislators have begun to recognize the medical, humanitarian and economic value of helping terminally ill patients and their families navigate treatment options as they approach the end of life.

Aug 24 2010

Kaiser Health News

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If a patient participates in the trial, their health plan will stop covering all the other doctor visits, hospital stays, tests and treatment related to treatment