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Sep 07 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Medicare considers observation services outpatient care, which requires beneficiaries to cover a bigger share of drug costs and other expenses than they would when receiving inpatient care.

Sep 07 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The reform law establishes a three-year “concurrent care” demonstration program at 15 sites nationwide, in which Medicare would cover both hospice care and any further life-prolonging treatment simultaneously

Sep 07 2010

Boston Globe

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Donald Berwick is moving quickly behind the scenes to seed the US health care system with 100 to 300 sites to test new models of caring for patients.

Sep 06 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Software designers are developing games aimed at helping people improve their health in a variety of ways, be it getting diabetics to eat right or leading Parkinson’s patients through rehabilitation.

Sep 06 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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A reversal of federal policy that lets trial lawyers use litigation expenses as tax deductions would result in more frivolous malpractice lawsuits

Sep 06 2010

New York Times

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Mobile robots are now being used in hundreds of hospitals nationwide – and they are being tested as caregivers in assisted-living centers.

Sep 06 2010

Politico

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A handful of House Democrats are making health care reform an election year issue — by running against it.

Sep 06 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Donald Berwick, appointee to run Medicare and Medicaid, has described himself as “romantic about the NHS.” Given what goes on in British hospitals, Dr. Berwick really is a romantic, though not in the sense he means

Sep 06 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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DHHS announced Wednesday that three sets of grants and cooperative agreements totaling nearly $17 million have been made available for comparative effectiveness research.

Sep 03 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Mr. Wyden wrote, and “Because you and I believe that the heart of real health reform is affordability and not mandates, I wanted to bring this feature of Section 1332 to the attention of you and the legislature.”

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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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