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Apr 18 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

One of the chief priorities of ACOs concerns limiting utilization—the same role HMOs once filled.

Apr 18 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

If the British experience is any indication, generic drugs and expert commissions will do little to lower costs

Apr 15 2011

New York Times

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Medicare on the Table

Apr 15 2011

Fiscal Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

President Obama proposed Wednesday tighter curbs on Medicare spending and a new way of sharing Medicaid and children’s health-care costs with states

Apr 15 2011

BigAutoInsurance

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Best Doctors Inc., the tech-enabled healthcare services supplier, has accepted a minority investment from Osaka, Japan-based Nippon Life Insurance Co

Apr 15 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The number of people treated in hospitals in the United States for problems related to medication errors has surged more than 50 percent in recent years.

Apr 15 2011

Wall Street Journal

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App Watch: Letting Doctors Diagnose On the Go

Apr 15 2011

Technology Review

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A startup thinks it can make at-home tests more useful to patients and doctors.

Apr 15 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Organizations did try to keep CMS from publishing these hospital-specific statistics because “measures used to portray safety and quality data should be good, reliable, valid measures of what they’re trying to portray.

Apr 14 2011

National Underwriter

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Evolution Benefits Inc., the company that developed the Benny card benefits account payment card system, and Lighthouse1 L.L.C., a Web-based benefit plan administration services firm, have agreed to merge.

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