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Sep 08 2010

Fiscal Times

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Faced with premiums that continue to rise faster than inflation, employers are opting to load more of that cost onto employees, whose bargaining power evaporated in the Great Recession

Sep 08 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The number of healthcare entities reporting breaches of unsecured PHI affecting 500 or more individuals has crossed the 150 mark, nearly one year after the first such breach was reported.

Sep 08 2010

Reuters

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Silverfleet plans $800mln Sterigenics sale

Sep 08 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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How many times do you have to get permission from patients before you use their medical data for research? From the patients’ point of view, the answer is “every time,” a new study suggests

Sep 08 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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With healthcare reform introducing anywhere from 20 to 40 million new patients into the healthcare system, hospitals must address self-pay balances as a way of controlling bad debt.

Sep 08 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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A trip to a retail clinic or urgent care center can substitute for a trip to the emergency department for between 13.7% and 27.1% of patients who don’t require hospital level of care, “with a potential cost-saving of $4.4 billion annually.”

Sep 08 2010

Fiscal Times

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Although Florida’s once booming population has leveled off, its roll of Medicaid recipients has soared by nearly 50 percent in the last three years, exacerbating an already dire state budget crisis.

Sep 08 2010

Kansas Health Institute

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New federal health reform legislation over the next several years will pump millions of additional dollars into similar home visitation programs for new and expecting mothers with the goal of reducing rates of premature birth and infant mortality.

Sep 08 2010

Washington Post

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Many people may not realize that, in some ways, the new law will expand options for patients at the end of life.

Sep 08 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The proportion of U.S. adults who smoke seems to be stalled at around 21%.  What’s it going to take to push that number lower, and to further limit the number of tobacco-related deaths?

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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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