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May 24 2010

Hospital Readmissions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

Hospital readmissions are one area of health spending being studied intensively to identify causes and possible solutions to inappropriate or avoidable rehospitalizations. A California agency issued a report on readmissions…

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May 24 2010

New York Times

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About one-third of employers subject to major requirements of the new health care law may face tax penalties because they offer health insurance that could be considered unaffordable to some employees,

May 21 2010

Alzeimer’s Association

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The cumulative care costs of Alzheimer’s disease over the next 40 years will exceed $20 trillion unless treatments to modify or delay onset of the incurable disease are discovered

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 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

Moody’s

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Moody’s: Non-profit hospital chiefs who think they’ve been dragged through the wringer with the credit crunch and the recession should not think the worst is over

May 19 2010

TheFiscalTimes

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Until recently, Provo seemed to be a model for the nation. But spending on Medicare patients here has accelerated rapidly, as it has in many other areas of the country also known for cost-efficient care

May 18 2010

Wall Street Journal

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One of the few remaining ways to manage expenses is to reduce the actual cost of the products. In health care, this means pushing providers to accept lower fees and reduce their use of costly services

May 18 2010

Bloomberg

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Video: Dr. Jim Yong Kim, president of Dartmouth College, talks with Bloomberg News about the goals of the new Dartmouth Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery

May 17 2010

Kaiser Health News

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State and federal officials are wrestling with how to define “unreasonable” premium increases, a thorny issue Congress has handed regulators

May 17 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The U.S. health-care overhaul could help hospitals cut costs for high-priced medical devices, raising a long-term risk for manufacturers already facing some pressure on product prices.

May 14 2010

Bloomberg

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Medicine’s makers cut U.S. tax bills by a technique known as transfer pricing, a method that carves billions a year from the U.S. Treasury

May 12 2010

Washington Times

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President Obama’s new health care law could potentially add at least $115 billion more to government health care spending over the next 10 years, congressional budget analysts said Tuesday

May 10 2010

Washington Post

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Starting later this year, the health care law requires insurers to accept all children regardless of medical history – but the law doesn’t limit what the companies can charge

May 08 2010

2010 Potpourri XVI

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No mother's day would be complete without some health care news to ruminate on. This week's include psychiatric drugs, the cost of the SGR fix, home health care costs, telemedicine…

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