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Mar 04 2011

Kaiser Health News

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If America’s primary care physicians all working out of enlightened self-interest, were to focus on addressing the Relative Value System’s defects, the  impact on the  health system would be greater than all the reform bill’s cost-reduction provisions.

Mar 04 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Scoreboard: Tracking Health Law Court Challenges

Mar 04 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Bain Capital,Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Bank of America Corp. and the brother of former Senate Majority Leader William Frist are each in line to make nearly $3 billion from $1.2 billion investments in the 2006 leveraged buyout of hospital chain HCA

Mar 04 2011

eHealthNews.eu

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IBM announced the next evolution of the patient portal, significantly expanding the types of information, alerts, recommendations and interactive coaching healthcare providers can offer

Mar 04 2011

medpagetoday

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Nearly 10% of all Medicare payments are fraudulent, causing the federal government to lose $48 billion on phony claims and other improper payments in 2010, a new government report found.

Mar 04 2011

Bloomberg

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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

HealthLeaders Media

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Dartmouth Atlas Challenges Ethics of ‘Doctor-Centric’ Care

Mar 04 2011

New York Times

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A federal judge in Florida stayed his own ruling against the Obama health care law on Thursday, allowing the act to be carried out as the case progresses through the Courts of Appeal

Mar 03 2011

The Hill

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President Obama’s Medicaid chief shot down a proposal gaining traction among Republican governors to transform Medicaid into block-grant payments

Mar 03 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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There is little if any evidence that high deductible health plans are leading health consumers to make smarter healthcare choices.

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