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Mar 01 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Emergency department patients who visit because of an adverse drug event (ADE) are significantly more expensive to the health care system than other ED patients

Mar 01 2011

Bloomberg

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Republicans said they doubted the president’s pledge to give them greater flexibility to run Medicaid

Mar 01 2011

Medpagetoday

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Strategies are needed to help patients not only to understand how to take a particular medicine but also to consolidate and simplify how to take an entire drug regimen

Feb 28 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Medicare’s Three-Day Payment Window, Demystified

Feb 28 2011

Wall Street Journal

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Here are the 10 general categories of benefits that the health law considers essential, and some services within each that could trigger debate as regulators develop rules

Feb 28 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Kiosks and automated check-in processes are making their way from the airport lobby to the doctor’s office.

Feb 28 2011

New York Times

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Congress allocated billions — the current estimate is $27 billion — in incentives for doctors and hospitals to adopt electronic records. Now, a new Congress with Republicans looking for budget cuts could take back the money.

Feb 28 2011

Wall Street Journal

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More than half the states want permission to remove hundreds of thousands of people from the Medicaid insurance program

Feb 25 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Put the legal arguments aside for the moment and focus on the real question: what happens to health reform if the individual mandate is ultimately struck down?

Feb 25 2011

govhealthit.com

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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT hopes to demonstrate and test in late summer tools that will make it easier to share patient data, and to include them in the next stage of meaningful use criteria.

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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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