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Jun 15 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Premera Blue Cross, a Washington State-based insurer, has reduced its healthcare costs by increasing the fee-for-service reimbursements it pays to some of its physicians.

Jun 15 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Look for a jump in spending as more provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are enacted.

Jun 15 2012

New York Times

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Some stories have fueled suspicions among independent pharmacies that CVS Caremark is capitalizing on Medicaid changes to expand its retail business at the expense of locally owned pharmacies.

Jun 15 2012

Bloomberg

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A program to fight fraud in the Medicaid health system for the poor has cost the U.S. at least $102 million in auditing fees since 2008 while identifying less than $20 million in overpayments,

Jun 14 2012

InformationWeek

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Regional health information exchanges team up with IBM and other IT vendors to build the massive Statewide Health Information Network of New York.

Jun 14 2012

TechnologyReview

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Many parents have experienced the angst of a crying baby with an ear infection. Some 30 million medical visits in the U.S. alone are due to pediatric ear infections each year. A startup called CellScope has developed a device that could make such visits unnecessary.

Jun 14 2012

SFGate.com

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Hospital units specifically tailored to care for elderly patients could cut national health care costs by up to $6 billion annually, according to a new UCSF study.

Jun 14 2012

Bloomberg

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The board of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension fund, increased premiums it charges retirees for health-care insurance by 9.6 percent.

Jun 14 2012

Bloomberg

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If the Supreme Court decides to strike down the health-care law’s requirement that almost all Americans have health insurance by 2014, it could translate to cutting a “few hundred billion dollars” from projected spending

Jun 13 2012

PE Hub

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Norwest Equity Partners announced that it has acquired Pentech Holdings, Inc. Pentec is a leading national provider of specialty infusion services to patients who require access to complex pharmaceutical products and services outside of the hospital setting.