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Oct 25 2012

PRWeb

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Leica Biosystems Completes Acquisition of Aperio, a Galen Partners Portfolio Company

Oct 25 2012

BusinessWire

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AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions, one of the nation’s leading providers of medical billing, practice management, and coding services for specialty physicians, hospitals, and surgery centers, has acquired Medrium, Inc.

Oct 24 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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With a revamped hospital safety and quality ranking system, Healthgrades takes its place among other groups scoring health systems: Leapfrog Group, Consumer Reports, U.S. News & World Report, Truven, and Hospital Compare.

Oct 24 2012

Dispatch.com

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Hospitals charging fees for facility use

Oct 24 2012

KaiserHealth News

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To recruit more doctors to treat the poor, President Barack Obama’s health law took a simple approach: temporarily pay doctors more money.

Oct 23 2012

Washington Post

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Large employers look to on-site health clinics to reduce costs and absenteeism

Oct 23 2012

Bloomberg

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In the Las Vegas area, with about 2 million people, patients and doctors said it can take six months to see a primary-care doctor for a simple check-up.

Oct 22 2012

PBS.org

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Health Costs: How the U.S. Compares With Other Countries

Oct 22 2012

Wall Street Journal

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The presidential election is unlikely to change the landscape for people picking health plans this fall. If President Obama is re-elected, the changes stay. If GOP candidate Mitt Romney wins, getting rid of the law is unlikely to be a quick or easy process

Oct 19 2012

Washington Post

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A state-by-state look at the Medicaid expansion part of Obama’s health care law

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