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Jun 06 2011

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

As many legislatures around the country have finished their work for the year, fewer than one-fourth of states have taken concrete steps to create health insurance marketplaces

Jun 06 2011

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

ACO Debacle Exposes Obamacare’s Fatal Conceit

Jun 06 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

New research is signaling a major shift in how cancer drugs are developed and patients are treated

Jun 06 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Political lines were quickly drawn at Thursday where testimony about medical loss ratios was heard from representatives of small businesses, insurance underwriters, policy analysts, consumer advocates and health plans.

Jun 03 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Hospitals and doctors are pushing back against an Obama administration initiative that urges them to create new organizations to coordinate the care of groups of Medicare patients.

Jun 03 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The findings of a recent Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice report say mortality and hospitalizations are significantly lower in areas where there are more primary care doctors

Jun 03 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Proposed HIPAA Disclosure Rule, Explained

Jun 03 2011

MarketWatch

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The costly flaws in U.S. digital health-data plan – Digitizing patient records proves expensive and may not meet goals

Jun 03 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

IPPS Proposed Rule Clarifies Device Payments

Jun 03 2011

thehealthcareblog

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

In a remarkable recent interview, Donald Berwick MD, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), eloquently described his vision of value-based health care.

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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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