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Mar 27 2012

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

In recent years, insurers have tried to cajole consumers with lower co-payments and other cost-sharing breaks for members who select those doctors and hospitals. Lately, they’re trying an even more direct approach: cash rewards

Mar 27 2012

Fiscal Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A record 46.5 million Americans rely on food stamps, and in 2010 the federal government paid out more money in the form of benefits than it collected in federal income taxes.

Mar 27 2012

PEHub

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Resembling the way a villain in a B-rated horror movie keeps unexpectedly popping up to claim its next victim, unfavorable changes to Medicare reimbursements threaten the future of Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs).

Mar 27 2012

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Beginning this month, CMS is requiring suppliers to engage in competitive bidding to supply seniors with this equipment in 91 of the nation’s largest markets

Mar 27 2012

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Health-care companies had a harder time than anyone going public last year, but that isn’t stopping them from trying.

Mar 26 2012

Statesman.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Curious consumers start to see more hospital data – Hospitals bracing for new way of being paid based on their performance, patient ratings.

Mar 26 2012

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Weight-loss surgery proved far more effective than medication in controlling blood sugar among obese patients in two new studies, strengthening the case that the stomach-shrinking procedures should be considered an important treatment option for Type 2 diabetes.

Mar 26 2012

NPR.org

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Reading Between The Lines Of Monday’s Supreme Court Arguments

Mar 26 2012

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Free health clinics have long been places people turn to when they don’t have health insurance or money to pay for care. But the health law’s expansion of coverage puts free clinics in uncharted territory.

Mar 22 2012

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Congress’s reliance on the Commerce Clause to support the individual mandate was politically expedient but constitutionally deficient.

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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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