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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

Nov 18 2010

Washington Post

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The government says 1 in 5 American adults suffered from mental illness during the past year. Most didn’t receive treatment.

Nov 17 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Dr. Donald Berwick, the adminstrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is scheduled to testify before the Senate Committee on Finance. Here is an advance copy of his prepared statement

Nov 17 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Promising fast action, the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is launching a series of initiatives aimed at improving medical care while reducing its cost, officials said Tuesday

Nov 17 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Home Health – until there’s more economic certainty and until the extension of benefits under health-care reform in 2014 actually kick in, it could be a choppy volume environment over the next few years

Nov 17 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Surprising Variations in End-of-Life Care

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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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