Headlines – Page 719 – Healthy Skeptic

Sep 30 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is awarding $320 million, including $167.3 million which will expand primary care residency programs. These activities are expected to result in a 10-25% increase in the primary care health workforce over a 10-year-period

Sep 30 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Beginning in 2011, insurers who fail to meet the MLR targets must rebate to enrollees the difference between their actual expenditures and the target amount.

Sep 30 2010

LA Times

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Although this push by insurers on quality implies that consumers will get better care, it could leave patients with fewer choices of medical care providers, depending on which health plans they purchase.

Sep 30 2010

nextgov.com

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The administration has finished awarding $677 million to create something like a nationwide help desk for the exchange of electronic health records

Sep 30 2010

eheathnews.eu

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Telehealth Solutions’ CardioPod is playing a crucial role in a socially inclusive health check scheme

Sep 30 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Biologic drugs can cost as much as $1.5 million annually and their success can be dramatic, sending diseases into remission that just years ago were terminal – but are also extremely difficult for patients and payers to afford

Sep 29 2010

Bloomberg

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Companies that operate insurance shopping services, led by EHealth Inc., are creating a new market from a provision in the U.S. health overhaul that requires each state to create an online exchange where consumers can compare and buy coverage.

Sep 29 2010

US News

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“We’re still not using the ‘C’ word, ‘cure,'” cautioned personalized medicine director Jeff Boyd of Fox Chase Cancer Center, but “there is real potential to transform many cancers into chronic diseases.”

Sep 29 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Public comments can be made until Oct. 4 on the draft prepared by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) on medical loss ratios (MLRs).

Sep 29 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The Department of Justice launched an investigation of home health-care company Amedisys Inc., the third government agency to probe the company since May