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Jul 27 2010

FiscalTimes

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Cash-strapped state officials might want to take a second look at how the 45 million people who receive health care through Medicaid purchase prescription drugs

Jul 27 2010

Dallas News

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Paul Cary used to examine up to 30 patients a day at his senior-focused internal medicine practice in Dallas – until he began charging them $1,500 a year to secure a spot in his schedule – he traded quantity for quality

Jul 27 2010

USA Today

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The explosive growth of the USA’s older population is fueling a grass-roots “village” movement in neighborhoods across the country to help people age in their own homes

Jul 27 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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CMS included an update to the SNF PPS rates and consolidated billing for fiscal year (FY) 2011 in the July 22 Federal Register

Jul 27 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Technology that aims to keep congestive heart failure patients out of the hospital is gaining traction.

Jul 27 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Among the most important questions involving the health-care overhaul are how seniors will be affected – CLASS and doughnut hole

Jul 26 2010

US News

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Provisions in the health reform law would set up and evaluate different models of coordinated care delivery, including the ACO’s and medical homes – ideally, proponents say, ACOs and medical homes would join forces for the greatest impact

Jul 26 2010

Bloomberg

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Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLC and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s private-equity unit are in talks to buy medical supply distribution company Harrington Holdings Inc. for about $850 million including deb

Jul 26 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Under current procedures, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pay for more than 7,000 types of physician services, identified in codes developed by the American Medical Association. But the term “complicated conversations” doesn’t apparently come up.

Jul 26 2010

New York Times

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The legislative battle over the health care overhaul ended months ago, but it is hard to tell from the intense effort now under way by insurance companies to retool a critical provision.