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Jun 17 2011

EMR and HIPAA

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

While the vast majority of hospitals and physician practices in the U.S. still don’t have full-featured EMRs in place, many are already looking well into the future.

Jun 17 2011

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Coming soon: A bigger, costlier Obamacare

Jun 17 2011

Texas Tribune

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Texas to join with other states in a so-called “health care compact,” in which state leaders would ask Congress to grant them control of the purse strings and authority to operate Medicare and Medicaid.  Georgia and Oklahoma have passed similar legislation

Jun 17 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

We don’t know if the HIX will have the same familiar ratios. Will 20% of the customers still consume 80% of the healthcare resources?

Jun 17 2011

Health Leaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Physician Owned Distributors – The Senate Finance Committee is looking into PODs, signaling what may be an all-out government assault on the highly controversial practice

Jun 17 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Congress imposed the maintenance-of-effort mandate in exchange for additional Medicaid funding as a part of the stimulus bill of 2009

Jun 17 2011

PR Newswire

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

CarePoint Partners, a leading alternate site infusion therapy and specialty pharmacy provider, announced that it has acquired the infusion therapy business of ArTex Medical

Jun 17 2011

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Indeed, one of Medicaid’s problems is that it is, if anything, too cheap. It pays doctors much less than private insurance or Medicare. The result? Doctors don’t like to take Medicaid patients.

Jun 17 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare grew 5.39% over the 12 months ending in April 2011, continuing an 11-month deceleration of cost growth

Jun 17 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Two studies published this spring shed light on the risk of unintended consequences of putting new policies into effect. Both reveal that when it comes to health care, even the best of intentions and most logical of assumptions may not be enough.

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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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