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May 02 2012

Business Week

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

May 01 2012

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

May 01 2012

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Accretive Health Asks Court to Toss State of Minnesota Suit

May 01 2012

MSNBC.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Study: Obesity adds $190 billion in health costs

May 01 2012

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Productivity in healthcare, in the sense of wringing out incremental savings in labor, has lagged far behind the rest of business largely because competitive pressures present in other industries simply didn’t exist in healthcare.

May 01 2012

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The growth of health spending has slowed substantially in the last few years, surprising experts and offering some fuel for optimism about the federal government’s long-term fiscal performance.

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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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