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Sep 08 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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?

Sep 08 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

St. Jude Medical’s agreement to invest $60 million in venture-backed cardiac device maker CardioMEMS Inc. includes an exclusive option to buy the company for $375 million.

Sep 08 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

ResCare Inc. agreed to an increased buyout offer from Toronto-based investment firm Onex Corp. that values the provider of home care to the elderly and people with disabilities at about $384 million.

Sep 08 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Medical groups that perform heart bypass surgery are now being rated alongside cars and toaster ovens in Consumer Reports.

Sep 08 2010

The Hill

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A group of researchers this week estimated that the annual cost related to medical liability is $55.6 billion — or 2.4 percent of the nation’s healthcare spending.

Sep 07 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Can access to primary care be maintained, much less improved, when an already inadequate and inefficient system takes on an expected 32 million newly insured customers?

Sep 07 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Uniformity of practice is a nonsensical goal that fails to allow for differing expression of disease states

Sep 07 2010

Washington Post

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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

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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.

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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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