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Jul 22 2010

Fiscal Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

As we age, medical technology is able to keep our bodies functioning beyond a hope of recovery. Is this really the best way to spend our last days?

Jul 22 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Kathleen Sebelius appointed 28 people across the country to a “negotiated rulemaking” committee “to review and update the criteria used to define medically underserved areas and health professional shortage areas”

Jul 21 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Leaders from healthcare organizations and associations, lawyers, consultants, IT vendors, and a host of other experts are slogging their way through all 800-plus pages of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services final rule for the meaningful use of electronic health records

Jul 21 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Health plan systems that score physicians on how carefully they control costs misclassify or are “woefully inaccurate” up to 66% of the time.

Jul 21 2010

AP News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A project is beginning to test if patients fare better when given fast electronic access to more of their medical chart

Jul 21 2010

nextgov

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Health and Human Services Department on Monday issued a request for information on constructing an online catalog of studies that compare the outcomes of medical treatments.

Jul 21 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

“Lean” is basically industry jargon used to describe lower-cost plans with high deductibles or that otherwise focus on covering catastrophic coverage, not day-to-day health-care needs

Jul 21 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The length of the average Medicare certified hospice stay in a nursing home has doubled—from 46 days to 93 days—during the last 10 years, according to researchers at Brown University

Jul 21 2010

The Hill

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U.S. Chamber to launch website for businesses to air health reform grievances

Jul 21 2010

Kaiser Health News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

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

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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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