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Aug 05 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

As the obesity epidemic balloons, physicians like Urquhart are reducing their regular practices, or leaving them altogether, to open money-making weight loss clinics.

Aug 05 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Surgeon Cuts Out Third-Party Payers

Aug 05 2011

govhealthit.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Health information exchange SMRTNET has managed to build a network of seven networks and has attracted a broad range of 3,000 providers in 2011 that share data between hospitals, Native American tribes, community health centers, labs, universities and private physicians.

Aug 05 2011

Boston.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Fourteen years ago, Congress passed a bill cutting Medicare payments to doctors in a move to reduce the federal deficit. But every year since, lawmakers have caved to pressure from doctors and held off the cuts

Aug 05 2011

MedPageToday

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

U.S. staffers spend nearly 21 hours every week dealing with insurers, addressing issues such as drug coverage, prior approvals, and other reimbursement issues.

Aug 05 2011

MassHighTech

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Alere confirms plans to buy Axis-Shield, a maker of compact portable analyzers and the tests for blood and other fluids that are used in the analyzers

Aug 05 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Medicare’s Recovery Audit Contractor Program Collected $575.2 Million Since 2009

Aug 05 2011

Fiscal Times

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Oklahoma is the first to fully automate enrollment in Medicaid, the state-federal partnership that provides health coverage for low-income people.

Aug 05 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Health care payment technology company Emdeon Inc. has agreed to be taken private by The Blackstone Group for about $2.2 billion.

Aug 05 2011

Bloomberg

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WageWorks Inc., the provider of human-resources services for companies including Ford Motor Co. (F), postponed its initial public offering after U.S. stocks posted their biggest daily decline in more than two years.

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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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