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Jul 20 2010

Health Literacy

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

A key premise of the consumer-directed health movement and a number of other health reform concepts is that patients can understand health information and choices and make good decisions. An…

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Jul 19 2010

HHS

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HHS: This final rule implements the provisions of the ARRA that provide incentive payments to participants in Medicare and Medicaid programs that adopt and successfully demonstrate meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology

Jul 19 2010

Reuters

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Epocrates Inc, a provider of clinical information and support tools to healthcare professionals, on Thursday filed with regulators to raise up to $75 million in an initial public offering

Jul 19 2010

Boston Globe

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The relentlessly rising cost of health insurance is prompting some small Massachusetts companies to drop coverage for their workers

Jul 19 2010

Wall Street Journal

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“There is no such thing as a drug with no side effects. But when it comes to obesity, the risk/benefit ratio is so skewed to the risk side in the FDA’s decision that it makes it very difficult for any obesity drug to get through”

Jul 19 2010

Wall Street Journal

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A high bar is likely to be set for companies seeking to sell genetic tests directly to consumers, according to top Food and Drug Administration officials

Jul 19 2010

Washington Post

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In briefing documents posted online, FDA reviewers said two follow-up studies recently submitted by Roche failed to show that Avastin significantly extended lives compared to chemotherapy alone.

Jul 19 2010

New York Times

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The Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”

Jul 19 2010

Fiscal Times

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In spite of high unemployment numbers, there’s a lot of fat in the workplace—and it’s costing a bundle

Jul 19 2010

Reuters

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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co was trumped by a higher-than-expected offer by TPG and Carlyle following last-minute negotiations at the weekend with Healthscope

Jul 19 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Many worry there won’t be enough physicians to care for the estimated 30 million more patients who will be insured under the health law passed earlier this year. The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates a shortage that could reach 150,000 doctors by 2025

Jul 19 2010

Politico

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A group of Democratic lawmakers wants to use the immigration reform debate to fix one of the most hotly contested aspects of the health care law — provisions that bar immigrants from using new government programs to get coverage

Jul 19 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Insurance regulators are drafting rules that will effectively determine how lucrative the individual market will be by dictating how much leeway insurers have to calculate their “medical-loss ratio”

Jul 19 2010

Washington Post

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Massachusetts – aside from squeezing take-home pay (employers provide almost 70 percent of insurance), higher costs have automatically shifted government priorities toward health care and away from everything else

Jul 19 2010

New York Times

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As the Obama administration begins to enact the new national health care law, the country’s biggest insurers are promoting affordable plans with reduced premiums that require participants to use a narrower selection of doctors or hospitals

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