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11:00 a.m., Thu. - Employers this year increasingly shifted the cost of health coverage to their workers, even as total premiums rose only slightly, according to a new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation. ... FULL STORY

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12:01 a.m., Thu. - About 3.4 million workers are employed by roughly 1 million small businesses that are likely to take advantage of a new healthcare premium tax credit by 2013, according to a... ... FULL STORY

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A key trait of effective executives is to ask the right questions of your team. I have a recent example related to revenue cycle where taking a “deeper dive” into the operations proved beneficial.
 

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This is the second installment for 2010 of the Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Opinion Leaders Survey. More survey results can be found at the Commonwealth Fund's Web site, commonwealthfund.org.
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"Accountable care organizations” is the latest catchphrase in the quest to reduce costs and improve quality.
 
The Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Opinion Leaders Survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, is an online poll designed to highlight perspectives on the most timely health-policy issues from a...
 
 
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Kathleen Sebelius
Our current healthcare system is full of competent and caring doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals working hard to do right by their...
 
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David Durenberger
As someone who has been doing health policy reform for 35 years at the local and national levels, I am beginning to get that Winston Churchill...
 
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Now that we have $1.1 billion for comparative-effectiveness studies, it is time we investigated the cost and quality of life benefits of lifestyle changes. For example, what is a more effective and... ... FULL STORY

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 Lee Goldberg is medical director of the cardiac transplant program at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Lee Goldberg is medical director of the cardiac transplant program at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
 
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State licensing authorities might question whether recovery audit contractors' determining whether particular services are medically necessary is in fact “practicing medicine.” ... FULL STORY

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 3-D imaging gains provider interest.
3-D imaging gains provider interest.
 
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The government, the media and insurance companies keep telling hospitals and doctors that they over-order and over-prescribe, and that is one big factor in the ever-upward march of healthcare costs. ... FULL STORY

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Italy's health minister traveled to Sicily to apologize to a woman whose delivery of a son was botched when her two doctors got into a fistfight in the operating room. ... FULL STORY

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For the second consecutive year, President Barack Obama was voted No. 1 in this year's 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare competition. Other leaders in his administration and prominent members of Congress are also high on the ranking, as the rollout of healthcare reform continues to dominate the dialogue. The vast majority of the leaders on the list, however, exert their industry influence from outside of Washington. Read more about them.

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