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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

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

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IPPS Proposed Rule Clarifies Device Payments

Jun 03 2011

thehealthcareblog

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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.

Jun 02 2011

InformationWeek

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Unbeknownst to many medical practices, as many as 209,000 physicians and other healthcare providers may already be in line for a 1% Medicare payment reduction in 2012 for not writing prescriptions electronically

Jun 02 2011

Denver Post

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A growing shortage of medications for a host of illnesses—from cancer to cystic fibrosis to cardiac arrest—has hospitals scrambling for substitutes to avoid patient harm, and sometimes even delaying treatment.

Jun 02 2011

InformationWeek

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Telecommunications providers that were once hesitant to enter the telemedicine market due to limited reimbursements for services rendered are shaking off their doubts and developing a more aggressive, confident approach to telemedicine

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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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