Headlines – Page 837 – Healthy Skeptic

Apr 05 2010

Business Wire

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Merge Healthcare completed a private placement of preferred and common stock totaling $41.75 million, which is specified for use in funding a portion of the proposed acquisition of AMICAS

Apr 05 2010

New York Times

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Congress with little fanfare approved a set of wide-ranging public initiatives to prevent disease and encourage healthy behavior

Apr 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

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New work by a trio of economists, circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research, suggests that reform could produce a significant increase in demand for health care from previously uninsured young adults

Apr 05 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Patent expirations have been a headache for Big Pharma in recent years, eroding revenues and causing many stocks to trail the broad market. But generic-drug manufacturers have thrived

Apr 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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As insurers wrestle with the changes coming from the federal health overhaul in Washington, they also face challenges at the state level from regulators seeking to head off big premium hikes.

Apr 02 2010

Bloomberg

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Sales of prescription drugs in the U.S. rose 5.1 percent last year, a rebound from 2008, led by demand for antidepressants and cancer medicines.

Apr 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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It’s no joke for doctors that today marks the day that Medicare’s 21% reimbursement pay cuts were to go into effect. Congress left for its Easter recess without voting to delay the scheduled April 1 start of lower payments to docs.

Apr 02 2010

Wall Street Journal

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A unit of WellPoint Inc. dropped Stellaris Health Network, a four-hospital chain in Westchester, N.Y., from its network after Stellaris asked for a 15% increase in reimbursement payments from the health insurer.

Apr 02 2010

New York Times

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With the encouragement of Gov. Deval L. Patrick, Massachusetts insurance regulators took the extraordinary step Thursday of rejecting nearly 9 out of 10 rate increases requested by the state’s health insurers.

Apr 02 2010

Washington Post

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In about six months, the new law will allow at least 2 million young adults to be covered under their parents’ policies. These are the “millennials,” those who came of age in the new century and now are struggling to get on their feet