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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

Mar 29 2012

Chicago Tribune

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Hospitals fear loss of insurance payments if coverage mandate is struck down

Mar 29 2012

Fiscal Times

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If Mandate Goes, How Much Goes With It?

Mar 29 2012

ehealthnews.eu

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Tech savvy, well-informed baby boomers – “the power of the crowd” – will drive the adoption of ehealth, according to a new report from KPMG International

Mar 29 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Five months before Medicare’s hospital readmission penalties take effect, two groups of authors say Congress and the government are taking the wrong approach.

Mar 29 2012

Reuters

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A program to pay hospitals bonuses for hitting key performance measures, or dock them if they miss, failed to improve the health outcomes of patients, according to a large, long-term study

Mar 28 2012

Fiscal Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

How Obamacare Derailed the Economic Recovery

Mar 28 2012

PR Newswire

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Water Street Healthcare Partners and Wind Point Partners announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement to sell Physiotherapy Associates to Court Square Capital Partners.

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