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Nov 02 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Though hospitals are eligible for billions of dollars in federal stimulus money to bring their facilities into the digital age to save money and improve the quality of health care, just one in 10 is ready to meet government standards

Nov 02 2011

PR Newswire

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CRC Health Group, the nation’s largest network of behavioral health and addiction treatment services, today announced the successful acquisition of North Carolina’s Mountain Health Solutions outpatient treatment centers

Nov 02 2011

PBS.org

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

President Obama signs an Executive Order directing the Food and Drug Administration to take action to help prevent and reduce prescription drug shortages

Nov 01 2011

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Medicare payments to home health agencies would fall by more than $400 million, or 2.3 percent, in 2012 under a U.S. regulation issued today.

Nov 01 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A $5 billion fund created as part of the health-care overhaul to pay for health insurance for early retirees will run out of money by September 2012

Nov 01 2011

Politico

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

As Nov. 23 and the devil’s bargain made last August approaches, Congress must come up with a $1.2 trillion deficit-reduction plan by Thanksgiving.

Nov 01 2011

Kaiser Health News

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A lawsuit challenging Maine’s authority over health insurers’ profit margins is drawing national attention from state regulators worried about the impact on their power to hold down rate increases.

Oct 31 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Obama will issue an executive order on Monday that the administration hopes will help resolve a growing number of critical shortages of vital medicines used to treat life-threatening illnesses

Oct 31 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.  Big managed health-care companies are starting to take that idea to heart.  These insurers are facing the double whammy of market saturation and margin-squeezing health-care reform.

Oct 31 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

In the first 47 weeks of the program, 10% of overall ED visits were navigated; an average of 23 patients per day across the two EDs that were live at the time.

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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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