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Mar 01 2011

PR Newswire

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Four successful contract packaging and re-packaging companies in the pharmaceutical industry recently joined forces to create a new, single-source industry leader called Aphena Pharma Solutions.

Mar 01 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Ventas, Inc. will acquire Nationwide Health Properties, Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at $7.4 billion that – when completed – will create the nation’s largest publicly traded real estate investment trust

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

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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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