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Sep 18 2013

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The Congressional Budget Office issued an updated long-term fiscal projection for the United States, continuing to show dire consequences from unbridled debt growth, mostly due to excessive entitlement, particularly health care, spending.

Sep 16 2013

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TelaDoc, which recently acquired another telemedicine company, has raised an additional $15 million in financing to help pay for the acquisition.

Sep 16 2013

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LexisNexis, an Elsevier company, has acquired Enclarity, which provides provider identification and authentication tools. LexisNexis has made several acquisitions in the health IT space recently.

Sep 16 2013

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Similar to many administrative aspects of health reform, the cost of running a key website for the exchanges has tripled from the original estimate.

Sep 11 2013

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The Congressional Budget Office finds that delaying the individual mandate for one year, coupled with other small changes to the reform law, would save $36 billion. Okay, so where is all the cost reduction from the reform law–if it existed, the delay would increase federal costs.

Sep 11 2013

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According to researchers, the five most common health-care associated infections, many if not most of which should be preventable, account for $9.8 billion of cost annually.

Sep 11 2013

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A study in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that significant amounts of futile care are delivered in ICUs at a substantial cost.

Sep 11 2013

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Another study shows that robotic surgery, this time for gynecologic conditions, is more costly than other methods and likely delivers no better, and in some respects, worse, quality.

Sep 11 2013

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NextDocs has raised an additional $13.5 million for its clinical trial software.

Sep 11 2013

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A report from McKesson finds that chemotherapy in a hospital outpatient setting is much more expensive than in community physician settings, providing more evidence that reimbursement needs to be equalized across settings.