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Sep 30 2010

nextgov.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

Sep 29 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Dr. Richard Gilfillan, the new acting director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, has quite a juggling act to perform

Sep 29 2010

The Hill

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The House this week is scheduled to take up legislation to prevent paid medical debts from affecting consumers’ credit scores

Sep 29 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

There must be an effort to ensure the clinical information that physicians’ document also drive the best financial results

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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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