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Jan 12 2011

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Even as states grappled with crippling budget deficits and the political fallout of the deeply divisive health care overhaul, they maintained high rates of coverage for children in low-income families

Jan 12 2011

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The CBO Is Telling Us Something. Is Anybody Listening?

Jan 12 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he wants to redesign and shrink the state’s Medicaid program by copying a cost-cutting model used in Wisconsin. A review of Wisconsin’s efforts to contain Medicaid spending, however, shows little evidence of savings.

Jan 12 2011

Las Vegas Review

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Business boosters are increasingly pushing medical tourism as a remedy for Las Vegas’ economic ailments,

Jan 12 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Hospitals with multi-bed intensive care units are well advised to convert to single bed private rooms with their own sinks – a study that found such a transition resulted in a 54% decline in rates for three types of hospital-acquired bacterial infections.

Jan 12 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Those reading the tea leaves on how the Supreme Court will judge the health-care overhaul may want to examine a dissent filed by two conservative justices this morning in a case involving the Constitution’s Commerce Clause.

Jan 12 2011

Kaiser Health News

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While the law outlines 10 broad categories of coverage — among them hospital and emergency services, prescription drugs, childbirth and pediatric care – it leaves the specifics to the government.

Jan 11 2011

PR Newswire

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Surgical Information Systems, a leader in perioperative information systems, announced that Norwest Equity Partners, a leading middle-market equity investment firm, has acquired the Company

Jan 11 2011

Center for Public Integrity

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Although the federal government is directing billions of dollars to get electronic health record technology into hospitals and clinics nationwide, some doctors and small clinics indicate they’re unlikely to meet the goal

Jan 11 2011

PR Newswire

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

CareCentrix, Inc. announced today that it has acquired Sleep Management Solutions, LLC (SMS), a company specializing in sleep benefits management.

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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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