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Jan 07 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

In general, there are still substantial regional differences in the amount of services used by similar patients. But there’s less variation than you see when you look just at spending.

Jan 07 2011

Los Angeles Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Blue Shield of California seeks rate hikes of as much as 59% for individuals

Jan 07 2011

Health Leaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Wake up and smell the coffee. This is the dawning of the age of transparency in hospital mortality.

Jan 07 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The health care reform law was signed 10 months ago, and what’s striking now is how vulnerable it looks. Several threats have emerged

Jan 07 2011

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Republican governors are pressing the Obama administration to make it easier for states to cut Medicaid enrollment, setting up a fight over one of states’ costliest programs.

Jan 07 2011

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Rescinding the federal law to overhaul the health-care system would ratchet up the federal deficit by about $230 billion over the next decade and leave 32 million more Americans uninsured

Jan 06 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Here are six initiatives that community hospitals should undertake this year

Jan 06 2011

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

U.S. government spending on Medicaid and Medicare rose almost six times faster than insurance company expenditures in 2009 from the prior year as the recession pushed more Americans onto public assistance.

Jan 06 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Obama administration reignited the controversy over end-of-life planning less than two weeks ago with a reference to those sorts of talks in a set of regulations about annual physicals for Medicare patients – then it abruptly reversed course and deleted the reference.

Jan 06 2011

npr.org

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A health reform office charged with overseeing the insurance industry is about to be folded into the federal Medicare agency, signaling a major organizational shift just months after the office was created.

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