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Mar 22 2011

New York Times

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Washington State’s Health Technology Assessment committee is also drawing attention because it explicitly considers the cost of treatments in making its decisions

Mar 22 2011

McClatchy

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With the U.S. population growing grayer, job prospects for home health aides — and every worker providing health care to seniors, for that matter — are quite rosy.

Mar 22 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Payment transparency or lack thereof, opens hospitals up to a boatload of financial risk as the payment environment shifts.

Mar 22 2011

Wall Street Journal

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One year after President Barack Obama signed his historic health care overhaul, the law is taking root in the land. Whether it bears lasting fruit is still in question.

Mar 22 2011

Kansas Health Institute

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CRS report: HHS secretary has latitude to waive state MOE requirements

Mar 21 2011

Kaiser Health News

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On Health Law’s Anniversary: Predictions For Next Year

Mar 21 2011

Bloomberg

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Public-sector researchers, who get about 70 percent of their funding from the U.S. government, contributed to the discovery of as many as 1 in 5 medicines approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration between 1990 and 2007

Mar 21 2011

MarketWatch

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Quest Diagnostics agreed Friday to acquire Celera Corp. for about $344 million as the company seeks to expand in gene-based medical testing.

Mar 21 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Health Insurers Respond To Reform By Snapping Up Less-Regulated Businesses

Mar 21 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

To date, the administration has relaxed the minimum $750,000 standard coverage for more than 1,000 health plans covering 2.6 million people.

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