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May 06 2010

Healthcare IT News

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Pay-for-performance programs could increase medical disparities experienced by racial and ethnic minorities and people of low socioeconomic status

May 06 2010

Washington Times

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Where did this entitlement thinking come from? Only a generation ago, everyone expected to pay his or her own medical bills.

May 06 2010

Washington Times

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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