Kevin Roche – Page 902 – Healthy Skeptic

Aug 16 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Nearly one in five hospitalizations in 2008 involved patients with diabetes, according to a federal report

Aug 16 2010

USA Today

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How much more difficult will finding a primary care doctor become as a result of the recently passed health care reform legislation?

Aug 16 2010

Reuters

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The federally funded risk pools offer subsidized coverage until 2014, when the broader state-run insurance exchanges are due to go into effect and insurance companies can no longer deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.

Aug 16 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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It’s a widespread belief that many hospitals and health systems won’t be able to make their necessary margins on essentially Medicare rates of reimbursement as healthcare reform takes hold, and they will close.

Aug 16 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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CGI Technologies is the first Recovery Audit Contractor to post issues approved by CMS. All but one of them comes as no surprise, says one regulatory affairs expert

Aug 16 2010

Employment-based Wellness Programs

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Wellness programs continue to grow in popularity as a method for companies to get health costs under control and to improve productivity. A new report summarizes evidence on what may…

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Aug 14 2010

2010 Potpourri XXIX

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Another Saturday, another Potpourri, featuring the acquisition of a hospital medical necessity company, Americans' online health usage, analysis of prescriptions, California workers' compensation, home monitoring of elderly parents, remote psychiatric…

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Aug 13 2010

The Economist

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The Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services lose more than $60 billion a year to scam artists, according to the non-profit Coalition Against Insurance Fraud – in what has become a massive black hole in government spending

Aug 13 2010

govhealthit.com

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CMS is readying a set electronic accounting and processing tools that will help authenticate, track and manage payments to health care providers participating in the federal meaningful use financial incentive program.

Aug 13 2010

Fiscal Times

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New study shows the use of IT in a group of California hospitals actually has resulted in higher costs, higher levels of nurse staffing and higher patient complications.

Aug 13 2010

Fiscal Times

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Emergency room nurse Erin Riley suffered bruises, scratches and a chipped tooth last year from trying to pull the clamped jaws of a psychotic patient off a doctor’s hand at a suburban Cleveland hospital

Aug 13 2010

Bloomberg

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The University of California, Berkeley, won’t tell about 700 students the results of genetic tests performed on their saliva, after the state health department barred the institution from proceeding.

Aug 13 2010

phili.com

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But a local hospital group says the fastest-growing part of what hospitals call “bad debt” – basically, uncollectible bills – is money owed by patients who have insurance

Aug 13 2010

USA Today

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The new health overhaul law aims to end all annual dollar limits on health insurance policies by 2014. Federal regulators contend such limits can leave policyholders “virtually uninsured” for the rest of the year once caps are hit

Aug 13 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Compliance by health insurers with the medical loss ratio provisions in the new healthcare reform law may cost those companies more than analysts have predicted,