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Oct 06 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Tucked away in section 1302 of the behemoth Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the requirement that the Department of Health and Human Services define the essential healthcare benefits

Oct 06 2011

Bloomberg

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End-of-Life Surgery May Be Overused in Medicare, Harvard Researchers Say

Oct 06 2011

NPR.org

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The researchers found that the worst hospitals tended to be small public hospitals and for-profit institutions in the South. They treated twice as many elderly, black patients as did the 122 “best” hospitals

Oct 06 2011

PR Newswire

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ConvaTec has acquired Farnhurst Medical Ltd, a UK-based company that specialises in the home delivery of stoma and continence care products.

Oct 06 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Quality indicators are supposed to encourage better health care.  But in the case of the elderly, they may lead to unintended harms

Oct 06 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) is creating new pressure to get ­patients more ­actively involved in their care

Oct 05 2011

Reuters

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Home health stocks crash on criminal probe speculation

Oct 05 2011

Bizjournals.com

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MSC Care Management, a provider of medical products and services to post-discharge and post-injury workers’ compensation claimants nationwide, will acquire Integrated Healthcare Services

Oct 05 2011

KaiserHealth News

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Study Finds Living Wills Help Curb Costs Only In High-Spending Areas

Oct 05 2011

GovHealthIT.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

ICD-10’s ten-year reign of fear

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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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