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Feb 06 2012

Mercurynews.com

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Young doctors flock toward new specialty in end-of-life care

Feb 06 2012

Statesman.com

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State prison officials are poised for the first time in 18 years to contract directly with someone other than a state university to provide medical care for Texas convicts.

Feb 06 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Healthcare Continues Strong Job Growth

Feb 06 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Some Medicare beneficiaries who visit the hospital are getting surprised by big bills because their stays weren’t considered inpatient services.

Feb 06 2012

Washington Post

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Lumosity takes brain games to a new level

Feb 03 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Medicare Advantage plans are having tremendous success, with reduction in premiums amounting to 7%, an expansion of choices, and a 10% increase in enrollment from a year ago

Feb 03 2012

Wall Street Journal

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Much of the projected future job growth – more than 2 million positions – will come from low-paid openings for home health aides (mean annual wages of $21,760) personal care aides — people who look after the elderly and infirm

Feb 03 2012

Bloomberg

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More than 430 hospices, almost all of them for-profits, exceeded the cap in 2009 — an increase of almost 50 percent since 2006, according to Medpac.

Feb 03 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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For discharges in July, 2011 patients’ responses were 0.7 % better than they were in June according to Press Ganey Associates, which distributes and analyzes patient responses to the 27 HCAHPS survey.  This which was double what Press Ganey expected.

Feb 03 2012

New York Times

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To an economist it is astonishing that Americans have been content for so long to allow an economic sector that has absorbed an increasing portion of their incomes to operate without any meaningful price transparency

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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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