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Dec 14 2011

NPR.org

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FDA Tells Weight-Loss Surgery Centers To Pull Misleading Ads

Dec 14 2011

Fiscal Times

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One in five Americans who are privately insured are now part of high-deductible plans, a figure that’s at an all-time high and growing rapidly according to a new survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute

Dec 14 2011

New York Times

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The Medicaid program accounted for 21.9 percent of all state expenditures in 2009 and 22.3 percent in 2010, and is estimated to account for 23.6 percent in 2011, the report found.

Dec 14 2011

New York Times

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The House Republican bill to hold down payroll taxes and extend unemployment benefits, coming up for a vote on Tuesday, offers a special dispensation to doctors who invest in hospitals.

Dec 14 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Hospitals Adopt Drug Industry Sales Strategy

Dec 13 2011

Wall Street Journal

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What Is a Hospital? An Insurer? Even a Doctor? All the Lines in the Industry Are Starting to Blur

Dec 13 2011

Bloomberg

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By not calling out unhealthy food, Supervalu’s labeling program may be setting itself up to fail

Dec 13 2011

Tennessean.com

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Computed tomography imaging, the technology that took away the guesswork, has caused another medical puzzle. Doctors increasingly order the tests but don’t really know how many of the procedures expose a child to enough radiation to cause cancer.

Dec 13 2011

New York Times

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G.O.P. Bill Would Benefit Doctor-Owned Hospitals

Dec 12 2011

Washington Post

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Readmission rates have increasingly become a measure of a hospital’s quality of care. As part of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare is planning to tie payment to readmission statistics, even penalizing hospitals for readmissions deemed avoidable.

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