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Mar 08 2011

chron.com

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Texas doctors fed up with Medicare’s declining reimbursements dropped out of the government-funded program for the elderly in record numbers in 2010

Mar 07 2011

Wall Street Journal

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In the era of Facebook and Twitter, families caring for older adults are turning to free social-networking services to help recruit and organize friends and relatives and, ideally, save money.

Mar 07 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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From ‘Cookbook’ to Evidence-Based Medicine

Mar 07 2011

New York Times

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Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy

Mar 07 2011

Yahoo Finance

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Valitas Health Services Inc., a privately held company, said Thursday it plans to acquire the publicly traded America Service Group Inc. for $250 million

Mar 07 2011

Bloomberg

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A Republican member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, urged the Obama administration to clarify a centerpiece of the new health-care law that raises antitrust issues.

Mar 04 2011

New York Times

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A fierce battle is being waged between retail pharmacists and mail-order companies over where people should be able to fill their long-term prescriptions.

Mar 04 2011

New York Times

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House Votes to Help Small Businesses Comply With Health Bill, but Relief Is Held Up

Mar 04 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Kalorama’s report — EMR 2011: The Market for Electronic Medical Record Systems – showed EMR growth rates of 10% in 2009 and 13.6% in 2010, lower than the 15% growth that Kalorama had predicted

Mar 04 2011

medpagetoday

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n a letter to President Obama, 42 Republican senators called for the removal of Donald Berwick, MD, as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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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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