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Aug 11 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Growth in Antidepressant Prescriptions a $10B Paradox

Aug 11 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

How patients answer 17 questions posed in Medicare’s HCAHPS survey determines 30% of each hospital’s score and a chance to receive a share of $850 million that will be deducted from Medicare’s payments to 3,500 hospitals in FY 2013.

Aug 11 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Walgreens May Sell Health Insurance

Aug 11 2011

PR Newswire

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Aprima and Health Care Strategies Join Forces to Improve the Financial Health of Physicians

Aug 11 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Six primary care physicians from Georgia have filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming that a committee of volunteer physician-advisors that recommends reimbursement rates for Medicare procedures and services is secretive and skewed toward medical specialists.

Aug 11 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Three Simple Ways Medicare Can Save Money – Price fixing can be costly. The government should embrace alternatives like concierge physician arrangements.

Aug 11 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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As worrisome as radiation from CT scans is, the dramatic increase in the use of this imaging technology over12 years has averted costly admissions and patient transfers, according to a report this week in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Aug 11 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Investors in emerging medical technologies, who say that a number of start-up companies have either gone out of business or moved overseas because of delays and uncertainty at the FDA, say the agency’s caution has given way to overzealousness

Aug 11 2011

PBS.org

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According to a recent slate of independent studies, Twitter can accurately track the spread of a virus or disease — and do it much faster than traditional surveillance methods

Aug 10 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Hospitals Put on Sick List – New Study Finds Revenue Is Growing at Slowest Rate in Two Decades, Leading to Uptick in Mergers

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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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