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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

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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

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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

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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.

Aug 01 2012

Minnpost.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

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Kevin RocheThe Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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