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Jul 26 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Under current procedures, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pay for more than 7,000 types of physician services, identified in codes developed by the American Medical Association. But the term “complicated conversations” doesn’t apparently come up.

Jul 26 2010

New York Times

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The legislative battle over the health care overhaul ended months ago, but it is hard to tell from the intense effort now under way by insurance companies to retool a critical provision.

Jul 26 2010

American Enterprise Institute

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American Enterprise Institute: Overspending on Multi-Source Drugs in Medicaid

Jul 26 2010

Fiscal Times

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A new study from the American Enterprise Institute suggests many patients are still using pricey brand-name drugs long after comparable generics become available.

Jul 26 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Most Americans know the overhaul is designed to cover the uninsured, a decades-long goal of Democrats. But it also represents a change in how the government spreads its social safety net underneath Americans

Jul 26 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Wherever there is third-party payment, the goal of innovation is to produce more products that qualify for reimbursement, even if the effects on patient outcomes are only marginal. Wherever there is no third-party reimbursement, innovators are focused on ways to lower cost and raise quality.

Jul 26 2010

eHealthNews.eu

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The NEUGRID – neuroscientists could use the grid-based research e-Infrastructure to identify neurodegenerative disease markers through the analysis of 3D magnetic resonance brain images

Jul 26 2010

New York Times

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One of its most surprising moves so far, it has done the opposite, proposing what would be the most radical reorganization of the National Health Service, as the system is called, since its inception in 1948.

Jul 26 2010

Fiscal Times

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After being touted as the ultimate role model, Britain’s National Health Service, a fiscal failure, is about to be radically decentralized

Jul 26 2010

Health Insurance Exchanges

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The notion of a health insurance exchange to assist individuals and small groups in finding affordable health insurance is a critical part of the coverage expansion in the recent health…

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Jul 24 2010

2010 Potpourri XXVI

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More midsummer musings, covering possible replacements for AWP, the effect of Part D on heart failure drug use, the VA's telehealth programs, venture capital activity, self-management of high blood pressure,…

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Jul 23 2010

Information Week

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Cisco finds doctors must alter reimbursement and scheduling practices to gain benefits of videoconferencing

Jul 23 2010

CMS

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CMS: Medicare Program; Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update for Calendar Year 2011

Jul 23 2010

Senior Housing News

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CMS announced a number of changes to Medicare home health payments for 2011 including a 4.75 percent decrease in Medicare payments to home health agencies (HHAs) for calendar year 2011

Jul 23 2010

MedPAC’s Annual Report II

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More commentary on MedPAC's Annual Report, focusing on the care of dual-eligible beneficiaries and the use of shared decision-making in the Medicare population.

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