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Vita Advisors — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:18:37 +0000

Medicare Advantage plans are having tremendous success, with reduction in premiums amounting to 7%, an expansion of choices, and a 10% increase in enrollment from a year ago

Wall Street Journal

Vita Advisors — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:43:21 +0000

Much of the projected future job growth – more than 2 million positions – will come from low-paid openings for home health aides (mean annual wages of $21,760) personal care aides — people who look after the elderly and infirm

Bloomberg

Vita Advisors — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:41:52 +0000

More than 430 hospices, almost all of them for-profits, exceeded the cap in 2009 — an increase of almost 50 percent since 2006, according to Medpac.

HealthLeaders Media

Vita Advisors — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:37:35 +0000

For discharges in July, 2011 patients’ responses were 0.7 % better than they were in June according to Press Ganey Associates, which distributes and analyzes patient responses to the 27 HCAHPS survey. This which was double what Press Ganey expected.

New York Times

Vita Advisors — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:35:25 +0000

To an economist it is astonishing that Americans have been content for so long to allow an economic sector that has absorbed an increasing portion of their incomes to operate without any meaningful price transparency

Bloomberg

Vita Advisors — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:20:43 +0000

Health Care’s Jobs Boom – Baby boomers are turning 65, and they will need lots of help

Wall Street Journal

Vita Advisors — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:18:51 +0000

Some hospitals pay thousands of dollars more than others for big-ticket medical devices such as defibrillators and hip replacements

Wall Street Journal

Vita Advisors — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:57:54 +0000

Announced cross-border M&A flows fell to just below $30 billion in January, which is the lowest total for nineteen months.

Washington Post

Vita Advisors — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:53:40 +0000

A senior Senate Republican has launched an investigation into the Food and Drug Administration’s secret e-mail monitoring of scientists who warned that unsafe medical devices were approved over their objections

Kaiser Health News

Vita Advisors — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:51:21 +0000

Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for America’s Health Insurance Plans, warns that the biggest impact of the health law on Medicare Advantage won’t hit for another couple of years.