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May 06 2010

Washington Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The mandated MLR may help facilitate tacit price collusion among health insurers by setting a common cost upon which a similar markup rate can be applied to determine premiums.

May 05 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The CLASS  ACT underwent a number of changes during the health care debate – but here are some answers to some basic questions

May 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The Obama administration is urging state regulators and lawmakers to investigate whether WellPoint made mathematical errors in justifying sharp rate increases around the country.

May 05 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Health policy experts hope that electronic medical records becomes a tool for educating doctors about costs by providing doctors the price of tests and drugs when they are ordered

May 05 2010

iSoft

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A series of novel imaging agents could light up tumors as they begin to form – before they turn deadly – and signal their transition to aggressive cancers

May 05 2010

RTT News

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Accretive Health, Inc., a provider of healthcare revenue cycle management services, amended its Form S-1 registration statement – updates estimated pricing initial public offering of common stock

May 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Scientists are puzzling over an unexplained increase in stomach cancer in young white adults, even as a new study shows that rates in all other American adults have declined.

May 05 2010

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

To be accredited, medical schools and hospital residency programs, in which doctors spend three to five years learning a specialty, are supposed to be teaching future doctors about health care costs and cost-effective practices.

May 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Specialists like cardiologists earn twice as much, on average, as primary care physicians over the course of a career

May 05 2010

Bloomberg

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Companies will get $5 billion from the U.S. government to help pay for retiree health insurance, a benefit of the health-care overhaul that will offset some of the millions of dollars in costs employers

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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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