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Nov 11 2011

PBS.org

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5 Big Questions Before Supreme Court on Health Reform Law

Nov 11 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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By 2020, the retail health insurance market will include more than 100 million health shoppers wielding a whopping $500 billion in purchasing power

Nov 11 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Federal officials are in the final stages of reviewing applications from Indiana, Florida, Louisiana and Michigan to determine if their medical loss ratio waiver requests will be approved.

Nov 11 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Hospital Margins in Jeopardy as 5010, ICD-10 Deadlines Loom

Nov 11 2011

Fiscal Times

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Senate Investigates Lab Testing Billion Dollar Health Care Scam

Nov 09 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Walmart — the nation’s largest retailer and biggest private employer — now wants to dominate a growing part of the health care market, offering a range of medical services from basic prevention to management of chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease

Nov 09 2011

Bloomberg

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Doctors who own and bill for nuclear cardiac stress-test technology are twice as likely to order the procedure as those who aren’t paid for it, researchers said.

Nov 08 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Starting next fall, the federal Medicare program will withhold 1% of a vital payment—as part of a program to improve the quality of care. Hospitals can earn additional payments by performing well on two measures: quality standards for medical care, and patient-satisfaction surveys.

Nov 08 2011

Wall Street Journal

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There’s a lot of concern today that paying fees to medical providers for each service may lead to unnecessary care. But there’s no easy way to replace the massively complicated fee-for-service system.

Nov 08 2011

kevinmd.com

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How patient satisfaction scores reward rich 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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