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Apr 04 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Troubled Firm Wins Health Exchange Bid

Apr 03 2012

Bloomberg

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The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services backtracked on a plan that would have required nursing homes to hire independent pharmacists to assess residents’ prescriptions.

Apr 03 2012

New York Times

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Republican lawmakers who have spent two years railing against President Obama’s health care law are beginning to devise alternatives so they can be ready if the Supreme Court forces the issue

Apr 03 2012

Washington Post

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Culture change? Medical groups identify 45 tests and treatments doctors should avoid ordering

Apr 03 2012

NPR.org

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FDA To Fund Controversial Research Foundation

Apr 02 2012

New York Times

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Sense of Peril for Health Law Gives Insurers Pause

Apr 02 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Families hoping to use Medicaid to help pay for long-term care are facing tougher restrictions—though some states are getting stricter than others.

Apr 02 2012

KaiserHealth News

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More employees are being asked to roll up their sleeves for medical tests — and to exercise, participate in disease management programs and quit smoking to qualify for hundreds, even thousands of dollars’ worth of premium or deductible discounts.

Apr 02 2012

Rolling Stone

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Don Berwick on the Fate of ‘Obamacare’

Apr 02 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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After six years, the 252 hospitals that participated in Premier Inc.’s large pay-for performance program, on which Medicare’s current value-based purchasing rules are based, did not have lower 30-day mortality rates compared with 3,363 non-participating hospitals

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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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