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Nov 16 2011

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

South Carolina’s top health official will recommend this week that the state decline creating its own health insurance exchange, one of the central tenets of President Barack Obama’s health care law.

Nov 15 2011

New York Times

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Doctors who earn money for cardiac stress testing are much more likely to prescribe the tests than those who don’t, a new study has found.

Nov 15 2011

PR Newswire

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Landauer, Inc. Announces Acquisition of IZI Medical Products, LLC

Nov 15 2011

GoveHealthIT.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Top 5 roadblocks HIEs face

Nov 15 2011

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Aetna Inc. will cut some co-payments on drugs aimed at preventing heart attacks after a study showed patients took their medicines and were healthier when there were no out-of- pocket costs for their treatments

Nov 15 2011

McClatchydc.com

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In the scramble to come up with a deficit-reduction deal by Thanksgiving, members of Capitol Hill’s supercommittee appear to have one group squarely in their crosshairs: high-income Medicare beneficiaries.

Nov 15 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Nearly Everything You Need to Know About the Health Care Decision

Nov 15 2011

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Obama administration will announce Monday as much as $1 billion in funding to hire, train and deploy health-care workers

Nov 14 2011

PR Newswire

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Today Millar Instruments, Inc. (Houston, TX) and Telemetry Research Ltd (Auckland, New Zealand) announce their merger. 

Nov 14 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

State Medicaid directors say the federal government’s focus on bureaucratic process measures has quashed innovation efforts in the Medicaid program and resulted in inefficiencies and duplications.

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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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