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Jun 21 2011

nextgov.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The California Hospital Association is fighting a legislative attempt to require a “track changes”-type function for electronic health records, saying the benefits aren’t worth the additional cost.

Jun 21 2011

NPR.org

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Under fire from Democrats in Congress, consulting firm McKinsey & Co. today released its methodology for a controversial survey

Jun 21 2011

HealthNewsFlorida

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Five of Florida’s major public and non-profit hospitals scored so poorly on return rates for Medicare patients that they will get preference this summer in a grant program to fix the problem

Jun 20 2011

New York Times

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Consider health care, which will be at the center of the political debate. Here are four aspects of the issue in which Republicans and Democrats have stumbled into consensus.

Jun 20 2011

The Hill

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House appropriators on Thursday approved a spending bill for 2012 that prohibits the federal government from enforcing the healthcare reform law’s requirement that individuals buy insurance.

Jun 20 2011

Washington Post

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In one of the first concrete steps to remake the way medical care is delivered, hospitals are competing to hire primary-care physicians, trying to lure them from their private practices to work as salaried employees alongside specialists.

Jun 20 2011

Bloomberg

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The waivers were granted over nine months to 3 million workers in 1,433 organizations. Companies that have the exemptions will be able to keep them until 2014, when “exchanges” to sell government-subsidized private coverage open.

Jun 20 2011

LA Times

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Games, monitors and robots are among the tools being tested to help aging people live in their homes as long as possible

Jun 20 2011

New York Times

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Performing two scans in succession is rarely necessary, radiologists say, yet some hospitals were doing that more than 80 percent of the time

Jun 20 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Several major insurers are now using rates based on Medicare fees to calculate payments for out-of-network providers – these rates are often a lot lower than what doctors and hospitals actually charge – providers may bill patients for the difference