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Apr 19 2012

Fiscal Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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.

Apr 18 2012

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Obama administration said Wednesday that it would vastly expand the use of competitive bidding to buy medical equipment for Medicare beneficiaries

Apr 16 2012

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Express Scripts aims to help patients stay on their meds with a product that predicts who will stop taking prescriptions before the person actually does it.

Apr 16 2012

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Numbers, Numbers and More Numbers: Health-care players are finding that crunching the numbers can pay off in both better care and lower costs

Apr 16 2012

The Hill

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To alleviate some of the pressure ahead of the law’s Medicaid health coverage expansion, House Democrats included in their version of the bill a provision requiring states to pay primary care physicians no less than 100 percent of Medicare payment rates.

Apr 16 2012

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Consumer advocates, physician groups and several Democratic lawmakers are fighting a quiet battle over a key benefit in the health-care law: tax credits to help millions of people purchase insurance.

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