Headlines – Page 737 – Healthy Skeptic

Sep 09 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Companies expect to spend an average of 5.9% more per employee on health insurance next year after shifting some costs to workers and making other changes, according to a survey by Mercer.

Sep 09 2010

New York Times

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A new government study says President Obama’s health care law will have negligible effects on total national health spending in the next 10 years, neither slowing nor fueling the explosive growth of medical costs.

Sep 09 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Among the many ways ObamaCare seeks to expand federal dominance over health care is with the billions of dollars it is offering to lure states into new programs, from which they’ll never escape

Sep 09 2010

Next.gov

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One of the country’s most technologically advanced hospitals is outsourcing part of its health IT function to a technology-support consultancy

Sep 09 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Patients are willing to use remote or mobile monitoring devices to transmit health info right to their physicians — they just don’t want to pay much for them

Sep 08 2010

eweek.com

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The Food and Drug Administration is looking into whether smartphone apps that allow patients to monitor their vital signs wirelessly should earn FDA approval before implementation.

Sep 08 2010

New York Times

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Researchers have calculated that more than half of the 354 million doctor visits made each year are not with a patient’s primary physician, and that more than a quarter take place in hospital emergency rooms

Sep 08 2010

The Hill

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The Department of Health and Human Services has released for health plans seeking a waiver from the healthcare reform law’s restrictions on plans’ ability to place annual limits on essential health benefits.

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.