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May 03 2012

Washington Post

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The Obama administration has tentatively agreed to chip in $1.9 billion over five years Oregon. The Oregon plan would create “coordinated care organizations” to manage all mental, physical and dental care for 600,000 low-income patients on the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s Medicaid program.

May 03 2012

PR Newswire

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Omnicell, Inc., a leading provider of medication and supply management solutions to healthcare systems, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire MTS Medication Technologies, Inc., a worldwide provider of medication adherence packaging systems

May 03 2012

Kaiser Health News

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The new health law faces conflicting dangers: either it won’t be strong enough to upend entrenched incentives or it will be so successful it will prove too politically disruptive to survive.

May 02 2012

The Hill

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President Obama’s healthcare law gives the country’s biggest businesses a strong incentive to quit offering healthcare benefits, House Republicans said Tuesday.

May 02 2012

Business Week

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Federal regulators are now scrutinizing whether small companies with relatively healthy employees will pull out of the group health insurance market by self-insuring—meaning the companies take on the risk of paying for employees’ medical care.

May 02 2012

New York Times

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United States authorities have charged 107 people, including doctors and nurses, for trying to defraud the federal Medicare health care program for the elderly and disabled of about $452 million

May 02 2012

Marketwatch.com

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ConvaTec, a world-leading developer and marketer of innovative medical technologies for community and hospital care today announced that it has acquired AbViser Medical, LLC, a Salt Lake City, UT-based company that specializes in products for the critical care marketplace.

May 02 2012

PR Newswire

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TeamHealth Holdings Inc. today announced the acquisition of the operations of The Exigence Group (“Exigence”) and its related entities.

May 01 2012

Bloomberg

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More than 80 percent of hospitals have yet to achieve the requirements for the first stage of a $14.6 billion U.S. program to encourage doctors to adopt electronic medical records, the industry’s largest trade group said.

May 01 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Castlight Health, a company aiming to bring more transparency to the costs of various medical procedures, has secured one of the largest funding rounds on record for a health-related software company