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Aug 06 2012

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Obama administration officials are getting ready to set up and operate new health insurance markets in about half the states, where local officials appear unwilling or unable to do so.

Aug 03 2012

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Under pressure to squeeze out costs, some of the U.S.’s biggest health insurers are quietly erecting more hurdles for patients seeking medical care.  The companies are in many cases reaching back to the 1990s and boosting the use of techniques that antagonized patients and doctors alike.

Aug 02 2012

California HealthLine

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Outsourcing, an established but fairly static practice in the U.S. health care industry, may grow in scope as the country experiences major shifts in health care delivery.

Aug 02 2012

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Doctors Will Have To Figure Out Who Gets ‘No-Cost’ Birth Control

Aug 02 2012

SF Gate

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Doctors charge their patients an annual fee and in turn give them more time and attention.

Aug 02 2012

Sacramento Business Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Masimo Enters Noninvasive Multigas Monitoring, including Capnography, with Acquisition of PHASEIN

Aug 02 2012

Boston Business Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Haemonetics Completes Acquisition of Pall’s Transfusion Medicine Business

Aug 02 2012

MedPageToday

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

CBO: Delays in SGR Cuts to Cost $271 Billion

Aug 02 2012

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

App-Happy Health Care Full of Optimism, Money

Aug 01 2012

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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.

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