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May 20 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Spending on drugs for kids rose 10.8% last year, the most of any age group and nearly triple the 3.7% increase for the general population,

May 20 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A House panel is investigating personal genetic test kits currently sold over the Internet after one company proposed selling its kits through stores

May 20 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The average manufacturer price increases for popular name brand and specialty prescription drugs used by Medicare beneficiaries rose faster than other consumer goods and services in the 12 months ending March 2010

May 20 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Accretive Health Inc. cut the size of its initial public offerings by as much as 44 percent as the IPO market’s May slump deepened

May 19 2010

Business Insider

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Healthcare company 1Life Healthcare has secured $15 million in its latest round of venture capital financing.

May 19 2010

Federal Telemedicine News

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CMS is sharing savings with 166 Home Health Agencies (HHA) based on their performance during the first year of the Medicare Home Health Pay for Performance (HHP4P) demonstration.

May 19 2010

TheHill

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AMA argues the proposed fix to the Medicare payment system for physicians doesn’t address the program’s solvency issues and only pushes the problem five years down the road

May 19 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Medco is expanding its efforts to promote so-called pharmacogenomic tests—assays that can signal how a person will react to a drug or can help decide what medicine, or what dose, is best

May 19 2010

New York Times

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This year’s incoming freshmen at the University of California, Berkeley, will get something quite different: a cotton swab on which they can, if they choose, send in a DNA sample

May 19 2010

Star-Telegram

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Newly licensed doctors enlisting to treat the state’s Medicaid and Medicare patients are more likely to have been trained at international medical schools, according to a review of state medical licensing data

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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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