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Aug 01 2012

Wall Street Journal

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The law requires employers to begin including contraception and other women’s services in workers’ insurance plans without charging employees co-payments AND distribute millions of dollars in insurance-company refunds to workers whose plans spent a high percentage of their premium dollars on administrative expenses.

Aug 01 2012

Minnpost.com

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In the 1980s, most clinical trials took place at universities and other academic institutions. By 2005, more than 70 percent of U.S. clinical trials were being done by nonacademic physicians. In fact, the number of private-sector physicians involved in these studies climbed from 4,000 in 1990 to a staggering 20,250 in 2010.

Aug 01 2012

Foxnews.com

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Remote monitoring of intensive care patients can cost hospitals anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 per bed in the first year of operation – whether this investment pays off in the long run by improving ICU patients’ care and saving money is still unknown.

Aug 01 2012

Reuters

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A private equity consortium is aiming to scoop-up lab-testing company, Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings in a huge leveraged buyout

Aug 01 2012

NPR.org

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Beginning today, most new and renewing health insurance plans must begin offering a broad array of women’s preventive health services, most notably coverage of birth control, at no upfront cost.

Aug 01 2012

Baltimore Sun

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RFID tags help University of Maryland Medical Center track emergency drugs – Technology attached to crash cart drugs helps reduce errors

Jul 31 2012

Bloomberg

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Google-Backed 23andMe Asks FDA to Clear DNA Evaluation Service

Jul 31 2012

LA Times

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Annual retainer fee buys patients more time with their doctors – Some physicians in solo practice, frustrated by long hours and less time with patients, opt for so-called concierge medicine. Critics say it could reduce access to care.

Jul 31 2012

New York Times

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Accretive Health, one of the nation’s largest collectors of medical debt, has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the Minnesota state attorney general’s office to settle accusations that it violated a federal law

Jul 31 2012

Fiscal Times

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A new study showed that in 2009 half the population – fully 150 million people – spent an average of just $236 per person on health care. That was a paltry $36 billion for the entire group out of $1.3 trillion in personal health care expenditures.