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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.

Apr 18 2012

New York Times

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Apr 16 2012

Wahsington Post

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Twenty-thousand physicians received emails with links to reports from Medicare showing the amount their patients cost on average as well as the quality of the care they provided.

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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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