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Mar 09 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Study: Palliative Care For Medicaid Patients Reduces Their Hospital Costs

Mar 09 2011

Washington Post

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Walgreen Co. is leaving the pharmacy benefits management business, selling that operation to Catalyst Health Solutions Inc. for $525 million in cash and freeing it to focus on its drugstore network, the largest in the United States.

Mar 09 2011

Bloomberg

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The state of Maine received a three- year waiver to federal rules in the 2010 health law that require health insurers to spend at least 80 percent of premiums on patient care

Mar 09 2011

New York Times

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The Justice Department filed notice on Tuesday that it was appealing a decision by a federal judge in Florida who struck down the new health care law

Mar 09 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Virtual Discharge Assistant Cuts Re-admissions, Costs

Mar 09 2011

Wall Street Journal

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The 33 million participants in flexible-spending accounts can no longer use their pre-tax money to buy over-the-counter drugs unless they get a doctors prescription

Mar 09 2011

US News

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‘Diabetes Belt’ Outlined – Region of high prevalence stretches across Deep South and Appalachia

Mar 09 2011

Kaiser Health News

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A grassroots advocacy group examined recent state budget cuts and found that from 2009-2011, states cut $1.8 billion or about 8 percent, from their total state mental health budgets.

Mar 09 2011

McLatchyde

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Under the new law, the federal government will pay the entire cost of the new enrollees for the first three years, after which it will scale down gradually to 90 percent in 2020 and thereafter. Republican governors say that’s an entitlement-program expansion they simply can’t afford

Mar 09 2011

Medical Page News

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Medtronic Under Fire for Dropping GPO Contracts

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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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