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Health Care Reform: Yale Discussion by Karl Rove Slams President Obama’s Plans

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:15:04 +0000

Health Care Reform was the focus of discussion at Yale University this week when Karl Rove, former President George W. Bush’s deputy chief of staff, offered his own solutions to health care insurance and coverage issues. Rove later called President Barack Obama’s health care plan “a fraud” before adding that the plan “will bankrupt America”.

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Front-Line Managers are Key to Wellness Program Participation

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:12:00 +0000

By TOM UNDERWOOD What’s the difference between a company with a high participation rate in wellness programs and a low one? As it turns out, front-line managers—the people who run the daily operations and work the most closely with their…

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Ex-health care exec. to plead guilty to wire fraud

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:16:50 +0000

A former executive of the bankrupt health care company Canopy Financial Inc. has agreed to plead guilty in an alleged multimillion-dollar fraud.

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Home Health Care Executive Pleads Guilty

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:51:56 +0000

A home health care executive from Old Saybrook faces up to three years in prison after pleading guilty in federal court to what prosecutors call “a multiyear scheme” to evade the payment of employee withholding and other federal payroll taxes.

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Health Care Foundation accepting grant applications from MetroWest groups

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:49:10 +0000

The MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation has begun accepting applications for fall grants and is holding a session on Wednesday, Sept. 15, to advise groups on how to apply.

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And The Best Job In Academic Medicine Goes To…

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:43:00 +0000

By BOB WACHTER, MD With all due respect to the Pentagon, humankind has not invented a more complex organization than the modern academic medical center. The combination of high tech and high touch, the Byzantine regulations, the toxic medico-legal environment,…

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Healthcare unwired: nearly half of US consumers are willing to pay

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:38:00 +0000

By JANE SARASOHN-KAHN 40% of U.S. consumers are willing to pay for remote health monitoring devices and services that would send their medical data to doctors, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Healthcare Unwired (PwC). 51% of consumers would not buy mobile health…

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Healthcare unwired: nearly half of US consumers are willing to pay

OIG: Imaging pre-authorization may be handled by hospital for referring docs and patients

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:15:00 +0000

By DAVID HARLOW The OIG released an advisory opinion at the end of last month OK’ing a hospital’s proposal to provide insurance pre-authorization srevices free of charge to patients and physicians.

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Health Care Reform: Is There a Doctor in the House?

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:02:09 +0000

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 8 (HealthDay News) — Health reform will put insurance cards in the hands of tens of millions of previously uninsured Americans

Health-care fight looms if GOP wins

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:05:40 +0000

WASHINGTON – If you thought passing the health-care overhaul was messy, wait until Republicans try to repeal it if they regain power this fall. It could come down to who blinks first, with some Republicans raising the prospect of a government shutdown.

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