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Apr 29 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Don Berwick:  Reforming Medicare and reducing health-care spending is crucial to meeting that goal. But there’s a right way to reform Medicare and a wrong way.

Apr 29 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Instead of picking a plan to offer workers, this employer now sends them to a “private exchange” or marketplace where they compare and choose their own insurance.

Apr 29 2011

The Fiscal Times

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The White House is desperate to show it can “save” Medicare, in part by significantly ramping up   investigations of abuse. How? By scaring the daylights out of CEOs

Apr 29 2011

nextgov.com

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Two recent surveys indicate that 41 percent of doctors and 95 percent of hospitals are ready to give electronic records a try. The reason: $27 billion in payments is available for those who make the switch.

Apr 29 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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ACOS are unlikely to reduce and may even exacerbate disparities in care without active intervention to monitor and incentivize equity within and across ACO populations

Apr 28 2011

NPR.org

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The real problem isn’t caused by people who don’t have insurance — it’s caused by people who do, but still can’t find a doctor to treat them.

Apr 28 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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As surprising as it may seem, the U.S. lacks a unified system to measure quality of care and health status for children and adolescents, says the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council.

Apr 28 2011

Forbes.com

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The bill, approved 39-9, authorizes a fee of 2.5 percent on the net revenues of 77 Oklahoma hospitals that would be used to draw matching federal Medicaid funds

Apr 28 2011

PR Newswire

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CVS Caremark to Complete Acquisition of Universal American’s Medicare Part D Business

Apr 28 2011

The Hill

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The House Energy and Commerce Committee passed a bill earlier this month to repeal the planning grants. CBO released its score of that bill Wednesday evening.

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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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