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Aug 16 2010

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The House voted Tuesday to send money to the states – most of it to prevent the states from cutting off health benefits for millions. If that doesn’t strike you as strange, perhaps you weren’t paying attention to last year’s health care debate.

Aug 16 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

At least a dozen major drug and device makers are under investigation in a broadening bribery inquiry into whether the companies made illegal payments to doctors and health officials in foreign countries.

Aug 16 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Pharmacy company Medco Health Solutions Inc. said it will buy closely held drug and device researcher United BioSource Corp. for about $730 million.

Aug 16 2010

New York Times

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The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that the number of men and women in state and federal prisons age 55 and older grew 76 percent between 1999 and 20088

Aug 16 2010

Washington Post

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Are bigger health-care networks better or just creating a monopoly?

Aug 16 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Nearly one in five hospitalizations in 2008 involved patients with diabetes, according to a federal report

Aug 16 2010

USA Today

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How much more difficult will finding a primary care doctor become as a result of the recently passed health care reform legislation?

Aug 16 2010

Reuters

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The federally funded risk pools offer subsidized coverage until 2014, when the broader state-run insurance exchanges are due to go into effect and insurance companies can no longer deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.

Aug 16 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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It’s a widespread belief that many hospitals and health systems won’t be able to make their necessary margins on essentially Medicare rates of reimbursement as healthcare reform takes hold, and they will close.

Aug 16 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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CGI Technologies is the first Recovery Audit Contractor to post issues approved by CMS. All but one of them comes as no surprise, says one regulatory affairs expert

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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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