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Nov 19 2010

Kasier Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Offering the latest tough-love strategy to reduce the nation’s debt, a panel of high-profile Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday recommended that Medicare beneficiaries pick up far more of their health care costs

Nov 18 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Two members of President Barack Obama’s debt commission have proposed converting Medicare into a voucher program in a bid to slow the growth in health-care costs.

Nov 18 2010

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Vulnerable Democrat Looks For Alternatives To Health Insurance Mandate

Nov 18 2010

Atlantic Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

If you thought the fight over federal health care legislation was even close to being over, think again

Nov 18 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

One in seven Medicare beneficiaries suffers an adverse event during a hospital stay, and those events, nearly half of them preventable, contributed to at least 15,000 deaths in a single month

Nov 18 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

In 2010, the average deductible for PPOs, the most common employer-provider health plan, hit a whopping $1,200, according to a Mercer survey of 2,836 employers with 10 or more employees.

Nov 18 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

No other group will need to adapt more than physicians, many of whom fear that their independence will be curtailed and their influence will retreat

Nov 18 2010

LA Times

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The Obama administration on Tuesday announced new initiatives to boost the quality of medical care that Americans receive, laying the foundation for what many experts think could be one of the most far-reaching benefits of the new healthcare law.

Nov 18 2010

next.gov

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded a $230 million health IT contract to Computer Sciences Corp. for migrating key IT systems to a new service-oriented architecture.

Nov 18 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Many Medicare cancer patients with poor prognoses are receiving overly aggressive and expensive inpatient procedures in the last month of life

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