Kevin Roche – Page 990 – Healthy Skeptic

Feb 02 2010

New York Times

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When Medicare plans raise co-payments for outpatient care, older people cut back on doctors’ visits, then wind up needing more expensive hospital care

Feb 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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New risk calculators from the American College of Surgeons aim to help evaluate individual patients’ risks of complications and death from surgical procedures

Feb 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Risk calculators, used by heart surgeons for several years, are now being developed for other surgical specialties

Feb 02 2010

Bloomberg

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The nation’s largest publicly traded hospital chains are stalking medical centers that have been hurt by the cost of charity care and unpaid bills in a recession

Feb 02 2010

CBO Looks at Republican Budget Proposal

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CBO analyzes a Republican proposal on federal spending, finding that the health care-related provisions would significantly reduce federal spending and national health expenditures, while increasing covered persons by an unspecified…

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Feb 01 2010

iHealthBeat

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Revolution Health sent e-mails alerting users that it would discontinue its personal health record service at the end of February

Feb 01 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Companies’ efforts to reduce health-care costs by nudging employees into wellness programs are clashing with a federal law designed to prevent discrimination based on genetics.

Feb 01 2010

theMobileHealthCrowd

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University of Florida engineers have designed versions of the sensor for applications ranging from monitoring diabetics’ glucose levels to detecting possible indicators of breast cancer

Feb 01 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The nation’s largest hospital operator, will pay its private-equity owners a $1.75 billion dividend, believed to be among the biggest ever, after reporting stellar 2009 financial results

Feb 01 2010

theMobileHealthCrowd

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Welch Allyn will showcase its newest suite of core diagnostics product offerings that feature next-generation electronic connectivity technology

Feb 01 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Mr. Obama, responding to growing public concern over deficit spending, will propose as part of his fiscal 2011 budget to freeze basic government spending, outside of national security programs

Feb 01 2010

Washington Post

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Conservative lawmakers in about half the states are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates

Feb 01 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Democrats and Republicans agreed on Sunday that President Barack Obama’s health overhaul wasn’t dead. They disagreed over whether that was a good thing.

Feb 01 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Some states were so confident Congress would pass a health bill that they included the extra Medicaid funds in their state budgets

Feb 01 2010

Massachusetts Report on Provider Pricing Impact

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The Massachusetts Attorney General investigates and discovers that hospitals and some physicians have market power and consequently are able to demand high payments and those payments are the main cause…

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