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Nov 22 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A small army of lawyers and lobbyists are trying to persuade the Obama administration to relax or waive a body of older laws intended to thwart health care monopolies, and to protect against shoddy care and fraudulent billing of patients or Medicare.

Nov 22 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

One of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York is dropping coverage for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants

Nov 22 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Medicare’s 25% physician pay cut scheduled to take effect Dec. 1 has been postponed for another 30 days, until Jan. 1, under a two-part agreement signed by ranking Senate Finance Committee

Nov 22 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

It’s clear that big pharma will face a triple whammy of problems—patent expiry, regulation and health-spending restrictions—in the coming years, and large-scale mergers and acquisitions should come back onto the agenda

Nov 22 2010

NorthJersey.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

More hospitals may face closure

Nov 22 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Wall Street Journal’s Laura Landro moderated the task-force discussion on health care. Here are edited excerpts of the presentation of their priorities to the CEO Council.

Nov 22 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

More employers are scrutinizing employees’ health-insurance dependents in order to weed out ineligible beneficiaries.

Nov 22 2010

Star Tribune

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The first state-mandated report on quality of medical care in Minnesota shows that clinics and hospitals vary dramatically in how well they treat patients — even on something as basic as children’s colds.

Nov 22 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Huge budget shortfalls are prompting a handful of states to begin discussing a once-unthinkable scenario: dropping out of the Medicaid insurance program for the poor.

Nov 19 2010

npr.org

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Adding more fuel to the argument over who’s to blame for rising health care costs, a study finds some big differences in hospital rates, with San Francisco the most expensive of eight areas that were examined.

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