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Jan 27 2011

Bloomberg

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President Barack Obama re-nominated Donald Berwick to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Jan 27 2011

Wall Street Journal

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The Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, which has a $90 million budget and a full-time staff of more than 650 people, reported fraud recoveries of minus $66,000 in its most recent annual report

Jan 27 2011

Reuters

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Paying doctors financial rewards to meet targets for improving the care of patients made no discernible difference to the health or treatment of people with high blood pressure, a study has found.

Jan 27 2011

Kaiser Health News

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A primer on selling health insurance across state lines

Jan 27 2011

Wall Street Journal

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In 1978, health spending—from Medicaid to employee benefits—accounted for 12% of state and local spending. Twenty years later it was 20% of much-larger budgets.

Jan 27 2011

PR News

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Healthcare at Home Ltd, Europe’s leading international provider of home-based healthcare and specialty pharmacy services, announced that it has acquired Sciensus Ltd, a provider of health informatics for clients across the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry.

Jan 27 2011

US News

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The United States is failing the ultimate test of its health care system, a new study finds, trailing other developed countries in life expectancy gains.

Jan 27 2011

Bloomberg

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Arizona May Touch Off Flood of States Asking Obama to Allow Medicaid Cuts

Jan 26 2011

Kaiser Health News

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Republicans introduced a bill reviving an idea long popular with conservatives: allowing consumers to buy health insurance across state lines so that residents of a state with expensive health plans could find cheaper options.

Jan 26 2011

Wall Street Journal

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The Wall Street Journal filed suit Tuesday to overturn a decades-long court order barring public access to a confidential Medicare database it says is essential to rooting out fraud and abuse in the government health-care 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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