Kevin Roche – Page 898 – Healthy Skeptic

Jul 30 2010

New York Times

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The Technology for Monitoring Elderly Relatives

Jul 30 2010

New York Times

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Technologies Help Adult Children Monitor Aging Parents

Jul 30 2010

TheHill

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A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday unveiled legislation designed to cut healthcare costs by offering legal services to patients in public health settings.

Jul 30 2010

Market Watch

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As companies put the final touches on their health care plans for 2011, more of them say they are planning to penalize workers who decline to participate in disease management or lifestyle behavior programs offered by an employer

Jul 30 2010

Medicare’s Physician Reimbursement Problem

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There has been no more gnarly health care problem for Congress than how to deal with physician reimbursement. At some point, as a Health Affairs article points out, it will…

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Jul 29 2010

BusinessWire

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Evolution Benefits, Inc. announced today that it has been acquired by Genstar Capital, LLC, a private equity firm based in San Francisco. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Jul 29 2010

FCC & FDA

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FCC & FDA: A Memorandum of Understanding Between the Federal Communications Commission and the Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health

Jul 29 2010

Kaiser Health News

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The federal budget deficit is expected to set a record this year, at nearly $1.5 trillion, or 10 percent of GDP, and next year will be about the same, with a deficit exceeding $1.4 trillion for a third straight year.

Jul 29 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Last week the nation’s largest health insurers received a letter from the AMA and 46 state medical societies that sharply criticized the accuracy and reliability of the cost-profiling mechanisms that many payers use to rate and tier physicians.

Jul 29 2010

Wall Street Journal

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An annual scorecard on benefits shows that public employees continue to have richer benefits than their private-sector counterparts

Jul 29 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Medical journals and federal public policy documents are sounding a refrain: too many doctors are ordering too many expensive, unnecessary and possibly cancer-provoking tests

Jul 29 2010

Wall Street Journal

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CVS Caremark will run Aetna’s pharmacy-benefit business for at least the next 12 years, according to the terms of a deal announced

Jul 29 2010

More Misleading Tripe on Health Insurance Profits

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Trashing insurance companies is popular and one of the most frequent complaints is about their premium increases and profits. A NEJM perspective uses misleading information to continue dumping on health…

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Jul 29 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Insured Americans are using fewer medical services, raising questions about whether patients are consuming less health care as they pick up a greater share of the costs

Jul 29 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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AHRQ’s annual release of state-by-state quality data now has data on health insurance, including healthcare quality categorized by private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and the uninsured

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