Kevin Roche – Page 924 – Healthy Skeptic

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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Jul 23 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Scientists have found a way to dramatically reduce the erosion of memory and learning ability in mice with a version of Alzheimer’s disease, potentially offering a new approach for tackling the illness in humans

Jul 23 2010

Washington Post

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Negative studies — the ones that fail to find that one therapy is superior to another — usually do not elicit much excitement. But with high costs and patient overtreatment looming large in the health-care debate, negative studies may be getting a closer look.

Jul 23 2010

Bloomberg

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U.S. workers who lost their jobs as of June 1 won’t be eligible for a 65 percent federal subsidy to help pay for health insurance under an unemployment bill Congress will send to the President

Jul 23 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Programs providing home visits that can ultimately reduce pre-term births and the need for emergency room visits are being awarded $88 million from the federal government.

Jul 23 2010

nextgov

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Meaningful Use: Some Republican lawmakers raised what is a basic question when creating a new policy: How tough do you make requirements to get federal funding? How high should the bar be set?

Jul 23 2010

Fiscal Times

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The new health reform law will advance the effort to “eradicate” differences in how mental health treatment is covered by insurers.

Jul 23 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Patients will find it easier to appeal the denials of health insurance claims under rules issued today by the Obama administration

Jul 23 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Genetic-testing companies that promised to help consumers understand their health risks instead offered contradictory and misleading results, government investigators said.

Jul 23 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Patients last year averaged a record of four hours and seven minutes spent in the nation’s emergency departments—a four minute increase over 2008 wait times, and a 31-minute increase since reports were made available in 2002

Jul 22 2010

Healthcare IT News

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Ingenix has agreed to acquire Picis Inc., a Wakefield, Mass.-based provider of healthcare software for high-acuity areas of the hospital

Jul 22 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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While there is still room for growth in the U.S. health insurance industry, international markets may play a large role in the expansion strategies of some of the largest companies in the near future.

Jul 22 2010

Politico

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Technology companies are ramping up their health care businesses ahead of an expected influx of equipment orders from hospitals and doctors who want to start using electronic health records