Kevin Roche – Page 925 – Healthy Skeptic

Jul 06 2010

Reuters

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Hospital performance on clinical process measures is associated with the quantity and quality of local economic and human resources. Medicare’s hospital pay-for-performance program may exacerbate inequalities across regions

Jul 06 2010

California Healthcare Foundation

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A new study has found that nursing home patients participating in a program enabling them to record their wishes for end-of-life treatment are far less likely to receive unwanted

Jul 06 2010

Washington Post

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Health Reform – overall costs appear modest at this point, split among taxpayers, employers and individuals who directly benefit, although the biggest part of the health care expansion is still four years away

Jul 06 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Medicare beneficiaries who use certain durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies could see average price reductions of about 32% off the current cost of those items

Jul 06 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Millions are not getting the tests that could save thousands of lives, officials for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Jul 06 2010

Fiscal Times

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The new health coverage for uninsured Americans with health problems won’t be cheap — premiums averaging $300 to $600 a month in the largest states

Jul 06 2010

Boston Globe

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Massachusetts ambitious, first-in-the-nation plan to transform how hospitals and doctors are paid is on hold, at least for this year

Jul 06 2010

LA Times

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The president’s agenda on health care and financial regulations sets the stage for a clash with the Supreme Court’s conservative majority.

Jul 06 2010

Charlotte Observer

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At Bank of America Corp. next year, how much employees make will determine how much they pay for health insurance

Jul 06 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The signs can hit you quickly or sneak up on you gradually. But what do you do if Mom or Dad isn’t safe living alone anymore?

Jul 06 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Dell is hoping that with ts $3.09 billion 2009 acquisition of Perot Systems, a specialist in health-care information technology, it can use the unit to move up the health care technology food chain

Jul 06 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The study — the first to examine whether automated calls can increase screenings for colon cancer — involved nearly 6,000 Kaiser Permanente members in Oregon and Washington who were overdue for screenings

Jul 06 2010

Wall Street Journal

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As demand has increased, several hospitals in New York are offering outpatient hospital care late into the night or on Saturdays to alleviate weekday crowding

Jul 06 2010

Washington Post

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The individual and employer mandates, combined with the onslaught of new taxes, paperwork requirements and new rules, will dramatically increase the cost of starting and running a small business.

Jul 06 2010

Hospital Pay-for-Performance Programs

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Medicare has an impending value-based purchasing program for hospitals. Payments would be based on performance against quality standards. Some hospitals ability to improve performance may be limited by the economic…

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