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Apr 20 2012

NPR.org

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Doctors Group Tells Patients To Go For Cheaper, High-Value Treatments

Apr 20 2012

Reuters

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Consumer-directed U.S. health insurance surges

Apr 20 2012

KQED.org

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Technology Enables Collaborative Doctor-Patient Relationships

Apr 19 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Federal regulators are turning up the heat to reduce the alarming quantity of dangerous, costly, and unnecessary anti-psychotic drugs prescribed to senior

Apr 19 2012

Wall Street Journal

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A quarter of working-age adults had a gap in their health-insurance coverage last year, mainly because they lost or changed their jobs, a new think-tank study says.

Apr 19 2012

Fiscal Times

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A controversial idea being promoted by a team of health care experts is to impose a tax on every doctor visit, surgical procedure and prescription.

Apr 19 2012

Wall Street Journal

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o-founder and CEO of personal-genetics company 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki, came to Harvard, preaching the virtues of crowd-sourced science and DNA sequencing.

Apr 18 2012

Chicago Tribune

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Having professional translators in the emergency room for non-English-speaking patients might help limit potentially dangerous miscommunication, a new study suggests.

Apr 18 2012

Bloomberg

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SXC Health Solutions Corp. agreed to buy Catalyst Health Solutions Inc. in a cash and stock transaction valued at $4.4 billion to stay competitive as larger pharmacy benefits managers join forces

Apr 18 2012

Kaiser Health News

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Video: KHN’s Jordan Rau and Mary Agnes Carey discuss Medicare’s transition to compensating doctors based on the quality of the medical care they provide.

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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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