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Aug 05 2010

Fiscal Times

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Senate Democratic leaders claimed a victory Wednesday by winning a test vote on the pending state aid package, which includes $16 billion in federal Medicaid assistance.

Aug 05 2010

twincities.com

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Proposed changes to the U.S. system for regulating medical devices are more objectionable to the industry than some local experts expected.

Aug 05 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Payors struggle to manage contracts that vary from facility to facility, from procedure to procedure, with significant deviation within each contract

Aug 05 2010

AP News

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Medicare and Social Security are facing strains from an aging population and an economy that can’t seem to get out of low gear – and despite assertions to the contrary the new health care law doesn’t improve Medicare’s solvency by much.

Aug 05 2010

PR News

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Harden Healthcare announced today the purchase of Voyager HospiceCare – the combined company will provide healthcare services in 13 states and will employ approximately 32,000 full-time and part-time associates in nearly 200 locations

Aug 05 2010

Phili.com

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Independence Blue Cross announced Wednesday that it is selling its four-year-old pharmacy-benefits arm to Catalyst Health Solutions Inc., the country’s fourth largest publicly traded pharmacy-benefits firm

Aug 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Institute for Safe Medication Practices: Drug Shortages ‘Unprecedented’

Aug 05 2010

Medicare Proposed Home Health Payment Changes

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Every year Medicare puts out very lengthy and detailed proposed, and ultimately final, rules updating the reimbursement for all of the classes of providers--physicians, hospitals, etc. While reading these is…

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Aug 05 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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A report from the American Medical Association finds an average of 95 medical liability claims filed for every 100 physicians.

Aug 05 2010

New York Times

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The Senate on Wednesday cleared the way for a $26 billion package of aid to states and school districts

Aug 05 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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When the reform provisions allow 30 million people who now lack health insurance to afford medical care, will be enough specialists in behavioral or mental health to treat them all?

Aug 04 2010

NHBR.com

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Pay-for-performance may be coming to New Hampshire’s health-care industry. Under a five-year pilot program health-care providers will be compensated based on their quality of care instead of the current fee-for-service model.

Aug 04 2010

End-of-Life Care

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The New Yorker carries an exceptional article by Atul Gawande on end-of-life care, highlighting irrational reimbursement policies and the difficult decisions that both patients and providers must make.

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Aug 04 2010

Politico

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Don’t bother trying to count up the number of agencies, boards and commissions created under the new health care law. Estimating the number is “impossible,” a recent Congressional Research Service report says, and a true count “unknowable.”

Aug 04 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The more effectively patients and physicians can communicate the better healthcare will be. And that includes better electronic communications, such as by e-mail

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