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Jun 06 2011

Health Leaders Media

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CMS is proposing to allow organizations that meet certain qualifications — including having the capacity to process the data accurately and safely — to have access, for a fee, to patient-protected Medicare claims data from Parts A, B and D

Jun 06 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Short on cash and time, officials in California and at least a dozen other states have turned to philanthropies to help pay for the extra work required under the federal health law.

Jun 06 2011

Bloomberg

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Structural changes are needed to help the NIH live up to its full potential in improving medicine and health outcomes. The conglomeration of institutions should be streamlined from 27 to three.

Jun 06 2011

Washington Post

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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

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ACO Debacle Exposes Obamacare’s Fatal Conceit

Jun 06 2011

Wall Street Journal

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

Jun 06 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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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

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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

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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

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Proposed HIPAA Disclosure Rule, Explained

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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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