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Jul 18 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Healthcare M&A Activity Hits Record Pace

Jul 18 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Credit-card issuers are stepping up their marketing of health-care cards and lines of credit that help borrowers finance costly elective medical procedures.

Jul 18 2011

Washington Post

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Families fear states’ home health care cuts will force seniors, disabled into nursing homes

Jul 15 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, spent several hours over two days this week defending the board before two House committees.

Jul 15 2011

Tennessean.com

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Nuance Communications Inc. has acquired Webmedx Inc. to boost its market share in medical transcriptions, days after the industry’s No. 1 player, MedQuist Holdings, said it had agreed to acquire M*Modal Inc., a vendor of speech recognition technology, for about $130 million.

Jul 15 2011

LA Times

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The heated debate over the federal deficit has pumped new life into controversial proposals for requiring Americans on Medicare to pay more for their healthcare

Jul 15 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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The value-based purchasing sweepstakes race is on. It’s hospital against hospital in a national contest to see which acute care teams can please their patients the most on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey.

Jul 15 2011

PR Newswire

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IPC The Hospitalist Company, a leading national hospitalist physician group practice company, announced today that it has acquired North Florida Acute Care Specialists, LLC. (NFACS). The practice represents an annualized volume of approximately 62,000 patient encounters.

Jul 15 2011

The Hill

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The bill would nix a provision that since January has required a prescription for buying over-the-counter medicines with medical savings accounts such as Flexible Spending Arrangements and Health Savings Accounts.

Jul 14 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Brokers hoping that the nation’s top insurance regulators would endorse a controversial bill now pending in Congress had their hopes dimmed Tuesday.

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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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