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Feb 25 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Dartmouth Atlas Finds Vast Regional Differences in Medicare-Backed Elective Surgery Rates

Feb 25 2011

Atlanta City Biz

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Connecture, Inc. announced today that it has acquired Insurix, a technology provider of sales automation software to health insurance carriers and brokers.

Feb 25 2011

Quest Press Release

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Quest Diagnostics to Acquire Athena Diagnostics, Establishing Leading Position in Rapidly Growing Neurology Testing Market

Feb 25 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it would take another step into health care, setting up a joint venture with U.S.-based biopharmaceutical-services company Quintiles Transnational Corp

Feb 25 2011

New York Times

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As Mental Health Cuts Mount, Psychiatric Cases Fill Jails

Feb 25 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Investors in information technology for the health-care industry say the sector today looks a bit like the Wild West, where there is plenty of action, and not much in the way of law and order.

Feb 25 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s task force to cut costs and improve the most expensive Medicaid system in the nation says billions of dollars can be saved while improving service to the 1 in 4 poor New Yorkers it serves.

Feb 24 2011

Denver Business Journal

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TriZetto to acquire Gateway EDI

Feb 24 2011

The Insurance Nation

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Walker’s claim on health insurance savings for public schools questioned

Feb 24 2011

New York Times

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The NY State Health Department on Thursday will propose a cap on yearly increases in Medicaid financing that will require across-the-board spending cuts by health care providers.

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