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May 07 2012

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Discrepancies on Medical Bills Can Leave a Credit Stain

May 07 2012

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The latest proposed rules for how federal payers would reimburse hospitals in years to come call for important changes in the way quality is measured. But you wouldn’t know it unless you dug through the 1,313-page proposal for Inpatient Prospective Payment System rules.

May 07 2012

ehealthnews.eu

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Denmark, England and Scotland have been pioneers in the use of electronic communication in and across the health and social care sectors.

May 04 2012

Georgia Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The current generation of American children may be the first not to live as long as their parents.  Much of this projection is linked to the increase in obesity and health conditions.

May 04 2012

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Disruptions seen for Medicare provider payments if Supreme Court strikes down health care law

May 04 2012

PE Hub

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

BenefitMall and CompuPay have merged through an equity financing led by Austin Ventures and including HarbourVest Partners. The merger of BenefitMall and CompuPay will create a national provider of employee benefit and payroll solutions.

May 03 2012

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Researchers found an astonishing 37 errors for every 100 paper prescriptions, versus around 7 per 100 for those who used e-prescribing software.

May 03 2012

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Royal DSM (DSM) NA agreed to buy U.S.-based Kensey Nash (KNSY) for $360 million in cash to drive expansion in the market for medical devices and materials engineered from proteins and synthetic polymers.

May 03 2012

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

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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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