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Mar 19 2010

Commonwealth Fund

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Commonwealth Fund: Report offers recommendations for a comprehensive set of insurance, payment, and system reforms that could guarantee affordable coverage for all by 2012, improve health outcomes, and slow health spending growth by $3 trillion by 2020

Mar 19 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Health insurers are fighting demands by hospitals for sharply higher reimbursement rates by threatening to drop the hospitals from their health-plan networks, and blaming them for higher insurance premiums.

Mar 19 2010

Wall Street Journal

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How can the bill spend so much and still reduce the deficit? The answer lies mainly in new taxes and curbs on Medicare spending.

Mar 17 2010

KHN

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Beginning April 1, Pacific Heart Institute, in Santa Monica, will charge some patients annual fees ranging from $500 to $7,500, in addition to the regular fees paid by patients and insurers.

Mar 17 2010

HealthLeadersMedia

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Health insurers told a Massachusetts agency examining rising health care costs that “providing care in more expensive settings” is the primary driver of increasing health costs

Mar 17 2010

New York Times

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Facing a sharp rise in costs, Pennsylvania has almost doubled the monthly bill for a state health insurance program for poor people who do not qualify for Medicaid

Mar 17 2010

BU Public School of Health

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BU Public School of Health: This report documents and investigates the excess in Massachusetts hospital
costs per person above the average for the United States

Mar 16 2010

More Imaging Issues

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Use of imaging services has become the poster child for health care spending problems, even though excessive imaging may have been rather rapidly controlled by private sector use of imaging…

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Mar 15 2010

Multiplan Press Release

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MultiPlan, Inc. announced today that it has acquired Viant, Inc., bringing together the considerable expertise to produce industry’s most comprehensive provider of healthcare cost management services.

Mar 15 2010

Washington Post

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Rather than tackle the drivers of health inflation, the health care legislation chases the ever-increasing premiums with huge new subsidies

Mar 13 2010

2010 Potpourri IX

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One more sampling of health care news, covering provider reaction to the EHR meaningful use rule, telemedicine, people's perceptions of their health status and insurance coverage and hospital costs and…

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Mar 11 2010

Washington Post

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Most big employers plan to shift a larger share of health-care costs to their workers next year, according to a survey to be released Thursday

Mar 11 2010

Wall Street Journal

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A widely used test to detect blockages in the heart’s arteries often turns up little or no evidence of disease, a new study found

Mar 11 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The President’s new budget will raise taxes by $3 trillion and federal spending by $1.6 trillion over the next ten years and increase the 2010 deficit to more than $1.5 trillion

Mar 10 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Over the past year of debate, 10 broad ideas have been offered for bending the health-care cost curve. The Democrats’ proposed legislation incorporates virtually every one of them. Here they are:

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