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Jul 23 2010

Information Week

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Cisco finds doctors must alter reimbursement and scheduling practices to gain benefits of videoconferencing

Jul 23 2010

Senior Housing News

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CMS announced a number of changes to Medicare home health payments for 2011 including a 4.75 percent decrease in Medicare payments to home health agencies (HHAs) for calendar year 2011

Jul 23 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Scientists have found a way to dramatically reduce the erosion of memory and learning ability in mice with a version of Alzheimer’s disease, potentially offering a new approach for tackling the illness in humans

Jul 23 2010

Washington Post

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Negative studies — the ones that fail to find that one therapy is superior to another — usually do not elicit much excitement.  But with high costs and patient overtreatment looming large in the health-care debate, negative studies may be getting a closer look.

Jul 23 2010

Bloomberg

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U.S. workers who lost their jobs as of June 1 won’t be eligible for a 65 percent federal subsidy to help pay for health insurance under an unemployment bill Congress will send to the President

Jul 23 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Programs providing home visits that can ultimately reduce pre-term births and the need for emergency room visits are being awarded $88 million from the federal government.

Jul 23 2010

nextgov

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Meaningful Use: Some Republican lawmakers raised what is a basic question when creating a new policy: How tough do you make requirements to get federal funding? How high should the bar be set?

Jul 23 2010

Fiscal Times

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The new health reform law will advance the effort to “eradicate” differences in how mental health treatment is covered by insurers.

Jul 23 2010

Kaiser Health News

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Patients will find it easier to appeal the denials of health insurance claims under rules issued today by the Obama administration

Jul 23 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Genetic-testing companies that promised to help consumers understand their health risks instead offered contradictory and misleading results, government investigators said.

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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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