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Jun 25 2012

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

11 facts about the Affordable Care Act

Jun 25 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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The average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare programs increased by 6.14% over the 12-months ending April 2012, Standard & Poor’s Healthcare Economic Indices show.

Jun 25 2012

Fiscal Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

How Low-Cost Health Innovations Yield Big Savings

Jun 25 2012

The Street

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

EPharmaSolutions To Acquire Global Patient Recruitment Firm Polaris BioPharma

Jun 25 2012

MedPageToday

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Running a better patient-centered medical home (PCMH) healthcare center may be more costly, researchers found.

Jun 20 2012

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The state-federal program that covers 60 million poor and disabled people would be greatly expanded under the health-care reform law, adding 17 million people starting in 2014. But if the entire law is struck down, states for the first time since 2009 would be free to tighten eligibility and make it more difficult for people to apply.

Jun 20 2012

Bloomberg

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Attorney General Lori Swanson, who sued the Chicago-based company in January over alleged violations of privacy law, raised new claims today in a bid for permission to revise her complaint against Accretive for the second time.

Jun 20 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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To ease patients’ transition to home and to prevent readmissions, Fairfield Hospital received a grant in November to participate in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Community-based Care Transitions project of the Partnership for Patients initiative.

Jun 20 2012

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

U.S. health officials say the number of young adults with medical coverage grew by more than 3 million since the new health care overhaul took effect.

Jun 20 2012

Bizjournals.com

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Frazier Healthcare and Catalent Pharma Solutions, Inc., today announced they have closed the purchase and sale of Catalent’s U.S. commercial pharmaceutical packaging operations to Frazier.

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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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