Headlines Archive for September 2009

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9/30

Tech, Medical Device Cos Target Wireless Diabetes Monitoring

9/30

Firms Warn of Delays From FDA Scrutiny

9/30

Follow-On Market Springs Back to Life

9/30

Making Sense of the Debate on Health Care

9/30

Electronic Medical Records May Not End Lapses in Test Follow-up

9/30

Obesity Trend May Hurt Improvement in Breast Cancer Mortality

9/29

Senate Committee Rejects Public Option for Health Overhaul

9/29

The Baucus Health Bill: A Medicare Physician Payment Shell Game

9/29

Interview: mHealth Alliance Executive Director David Aylward

9/29

Medicare Commission Proposal And MedPAC Data Shape Reform

9/29

Cancer detecting microchip uses nanotech

9/29

VCs Back Healthcare Startups Whose Diseases They Know

9/29

Accretive Health Files for $200 Million IPO

9/29

Abortion Fight Complicates Debate on Health Care

9/29

Why Medical Malpractice Is Off Limits

9/29

The Politics of Public vs. Private Health Care

9/29

A Disclosure Provision in Health Overhaul Sparks a Fight

9/29

Health-Care Overhaul: Abortion, Public Option & Young Adults

9/29

Civica buys in4tek

9/29

Sen. Rockefeller seeks to extend health bill’s protections

9/29

Health care comparisons help show best practices, prices

9/29

In Delivering Care, More Isn’t Always Better, Experts Say

9/29

FACT CHECK: Flaws in Obama’s health care anecdotes

9/29

Health care issues: Medical cost inflation

9/29

Americans United on Health Care’s Ills, Not Remedy

9/29

CVS, Medco Profits May Narrow on Contract Overhaul

9/29

Electronic Medical Records May Not End Lapses in Test Follow-up

9/29

Wireless Technologies Help With Alzheimer’s Care

9/29

AirStrip inks deal with Premier healthcare alliance

9/28

Sen. Rockefeller seeks to extend health bill’s protections

9/28

Health ‘Reform’ Is Income Redistribution

9/28

Max’s Mad Mandate

9/28

Use of Federal Health Clinics Soars

9/28

Xerox to buy Affiliated Computer (ACS) for $5.75 billion

9/28

Obama’s Too-Big-to-Fail Plan Is Too Dumb to Pass: Kevin Hassett

9/28

Democrats Step Up Pressure on Insurers Over Public Option, Tax

9/25

Health care issues: Overutilization of care

9/25

Senate Finance Panel Rejects Amendment To Squeeze Drug Makers

9/25

Cancer Clinicians, Advocates Applaud New Senate Letter Urging That Life-Saving Radiation Therapy Be Spared

9/25

IBM Pilots Telemedicine Project In Italy

9/25

Senators Debate Expanding Medicaid (Just Not for Themselves)

9/25

Global IPOs surge in Q3, led by buyout deals

9/25

Obama’s Deal With Drug Firms Survives

9/25

A Health-Insurance Difference Without a Distinction

9/25

A Hint Of Trouble For PE-Backed IPOs

9/25

Overhaul Divides Business and Its Traditional GOP Allies

9/25

House Votes to Block Increase in Medicare Part B Premiums

9/25

How Much Money Do Insurance Companies Make? A Primer

9/25

US Govt Review Of Merger Guidelines Could Touch Health Deals

9/25

Prevention is better, says Medibank

9/24

Medical Connections Holdings, Inc. Enters into an Agreement to Acquire National Healthcare Staffing

9/24

Kaiser: Online Tool Calculates Premium Subsidies in Key Reform Proposals

9/24

Mandate minus price controls may increase healthcare costs

9/24

Obesity could become top cancer cause

9/24

FDA to Review Medical-Device Approval

9/24

Vitacost.com Prices IPO; First E-Commerce Offering In 2 Yrs

9/24

MEDICARE vs. MEDICARE ADVANTAGE

9/24

Health care issues: Shopping for insurance

9/24

Primary Care Physician Shortages Can Be Traced Largely to Pipeline Issues, Says FP

9/24

Medicare Is Focus on Day 2 of Health-Care Negotiations

9/24

Device Makers May Win Cut in Tax for Health Revamp

9/24

Buyout Firms Return to Market as Select Medical Readies IPO

9/24

Pushing on the CBO’s Track Record

9/24

Republicans assailed a provision to create an advisory body

9/23

Humedica Raises $30 Million

9/23

Alere Honored at DMAA Forum 09 with Two Prestigious Award

9/23

Comparing U.S. Health Insurance To Other Developed Nations: Some Surprises

9/23

Additional Information on Insurance Coverage of Unauthorized Immigrants

9/23

Dire Shortage Seen in Allied Health Professionals

9/23

Wellpoint would provide universal coverage if certain conditions met

9/23

Assisted suicide law ‘clarified’

9/23

Baucus States Need for SGR Repeal

9/23

Reid:No Vote On Lifting Drug Import Ban Before Health-Care Bill

9/23

Inverness Medical to Offer $100 M in Senior Notes

9/23

A System Breeding More Waste - Medical Malpractice

9/23

Parties Clash on Long-Awaited Day for Health Bill

9/23

CVS, Medco May Need to Reveal Rebates to Some Clients

9/22

BioClinica Acquires Tourtellotte Solutions

9/22

Technologies Adds RTLS for Fully Automatic Patient Flow Automation

9/22

A Third Way on Network Neutrality – implications for telemedicine

9/22

Why Healthcare Will Always Cost a Fortune

9/22

Doctor-Owned Hospitals Are Common And Lucrative; But Do They Add To Costs?

9/22

Reform bill would reveal fees firms pay to doctors

9/22

Medical Imaging Holdings, Inc. Acquires Barrington Medical Imaging, LLC and Echoserve, Inc.

9/22

Medication Telemonitoring Improves Compliance and Behavior in NIH Study

9/22

Health Insurer WellPoint May Cut More Jobs

9/22

Health Bill Could Assist Four Cancer Centers

9/22

Same Destination, Different Route

9/22

FACT CHECK: Coverage requirement enforced with tax

9/22

Health care issues: Bundling payments

9/22

Who Pays for Health-Care Reform, and Is It Fair?

9/22

Baucus Bludgeons Humana

9/22

Baucus to Boost Aid for Uninsured, May Trim Plan Tax

9/21

Intel Wants You to Age Gracefully, at Home

9/21

Comparative effectiveness research: New ways to say “no”

9/21

NextBio Secures $8 Million In Series C Venture Funding

9/21

Shepherding a Bill With 564 Amendments

9/21

A Proposed Tax on the Cadillac Health Insurance Plans May Also Hit the Chevys

9/21

The new healthcare: Smart band aids, digital pills, wrist bands

9/21

Medical Monitoring Networks Get Personal

9/21

Three Possible Changes to the Senate Finance Health Reform Bill

9/21

Baucus Bill Calls Attention to Long-Term Care Insurance

9/21

Health-Care Stocks That Have A Good Prognosis

9/21

SPIN METER: $2 trillion in health savings? Where?

9/21

IPO Market Regains Momentum

9/21

Inverness Medical Innovations Inc. (IMA) will buy Seattle-based health company Free & Clear Inc.

9/21

Senators Plan Effort to Amend Baucus Plan on Public Option, Tax

9/21

Alzheimer’s, Dementia Rise Faster Than Expected, Report Says

9/20

Senate Democrats Take Aim At Health Insurance Excise Tax Plan

9/18

Medical societies push standards for robotic surgery

9/18

‘Connected Health’ prevention could cut U.S. healthcare costs by up to 40 percent

9/18

Report: Healthcare prices to increase as economy rebounds

9/18

Medical tech firm raises $9 million

9/18

Aptilon Announces Acquisition of Direct Medical Data, LLC and BLM Incorporated and Concurrent Private Placements

9/18

Calypso Medical Gets $50 Million Injection

9/18

New Tax in Senate Health Plan Draws Bipartisan Fire

9/18

The Baucus Plan: A Winner’s Curse for Insurance Companies

9/18

Affordability Is Major Challenge for Reform

9/18

Still Miles Away From Health Reform

9/18

Health Coverage Not Universal For Federal Workforce

9/18

The Innovation Tax

9/18

US Senate Moderates Praise Baucus Health Bill In Statement

9/18

HLTH To Sell Porex Business To Aurora Capital For $142M

9/17

HHS Plans Grants to Lower Malpractice Premiums

9/17

Drug-Benefit Cos Said Adjusted For Price Rollback

9/17

Alliance Health Raises Series C Venture Capital

9/17

Details on Costs of Baucus Health Care Bill

9/17

Guarded Optimism Among Insurers, but Some Health Sectors Remain Skeptical

9/17

Public Option Lite

9/17

Senate Bill Sets Lines for Health Showdown

9/17

Proposal’s Cost Savings Seem to Be Elusive

9/17

Average family health insurance policy: $13,375, up 5%

9/17

Doctor: Medicare rule may discourage home dialysis

9/17

A look at health care plans in Congress

9/17

Health Advocates Laud Tobacco-Tax Hike As Cigarette Sales in State Continue to Drop

9/17

Baucus’s Health Plan May Shape Senate Bill Even After Attacks

9/16

Medicare to join state medical home projects

9/16

CMS proposes bundled payment system for renal dialysis facilities

9/16

NCPA urges CMS to suspend pharmacy accreditation requirement

9/16

athenahealth launches IT bonus program

9/16

New Health Insurer Rewards Patients Who Stay Healthy

9/16

U.S. Health-Costs Panel to Rebut ‘Stingy’ Budget Office Savings

9/16

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Health interests fund senators

9/16

Many Employers to Raise Cost of Health Benefits, Survey Finds

9/16

Max Baucus: The Senate Is Ready to Act on Health Care

9/16

Another Health-Care Invention

9/15

Medical Product Tax Opposition Letter

9/15

Pharmacists seek to block Medicaid drug pay rule

9/15

To Cut Healthcare Costs, Let’s Start With the Secret Prices

9/15

Healthcare’s wireless sensor opportunity

9/15

Some governors say Medicaid growth could hammer budgets

9/15

Outside the Superstar Spotlight, Minorities Struggle With Obesity

9/15

Study Gives High Marks To Retailers’ Clinics

9/15

Maybe It’s Time to Slow Down the Pace of Medical Treatment

9/15

Immigration, Health Debates Cross Paths

9/15

Health-Care Reform and the Constitution

9/15

Medical-Device Makers Clamber to Avert New Fees in Health Bill

9/15

Why Small-Government Proponents Champion Medicare

9/15

LifeMasters Supported SelfCare Files for Bankruptcy

9/15

U.S. Health-Costs Panel to Rebut ‘Stingy’ Budget Office Savings

9/15

Cost of Senate Panel’s Health Bill Cut to Below $880 Billion

9/14

PDR Moves Online and Interactive with HCNN Merger

9/14

A look at Baucus health care plan

9/14

How Much Should Seniors Pay for Insurance?

9/14

Medicare Is No Model for Health Reform

9/14

Select Medical Plans To Sell 33.3M Shrs At $11-$13 In IPO

9/14

Fact-Checking the President on Health Insurance

9/14

50 million new patients? More primary docs a must

9/14

Senate plan to create winners and losers

9/14

Maryland Reins In Hospital Costs by Setting Rates

9/14

MedAssurant buys Catalyst Information Technologies

9/13

DataDyne wins Wall Street Journal Innovation Award

9/11

Please Don’t Call It Health Reform

9/11

Living In A ‘Medical Home’

9/11

Senate Finance Committee plan to impose $750 million in taxes on clinical laboratory

9/11

At Medtronic, a Profit Goal for Training

9/11

Government Becoming Insurer for More People

9/11

The President’s Tort Two-Step

9/11

Medicare for Dummies

9/11

Wrong Map For Health Reform

9/11

On Malpractice Reform, Fine Print Is Still Hazy

9/11

Health Insurers Say Obama Failed to Tackle Expenses

9/11

Pelosi’s ‘Immoral’ Insurers May Gain From 10 Million Customers

9/10

Chopra: Regulation, billing and workflow management

9/10

Obesity Driving America’s Healthcare to a Tipping Point

9/10

FACT CHECK: Obama uses iffy math on deficit pledge

9/10

More hospitals looking to merge, buy physician groups

9/10

Tech Companies Push to Digitize Patients’ Records

9/10

Big Food vs. Big Insurance

9/10

Baucus to Release Draft Health-Care Bill Next Week

9/10

Slump May Have Swollen Ranks of U.S. Uninsured to 50 Million

9/10

Obama Backs Tax on Insurers, Mandate for Individuals in Speech

9/9

PerkinElmer Acquires Leading Diagnostics Company in China

9/9

Medical Device Makers Oppose New Fees in the Baucus Plan

9/9

Bristling at Health Plan to Cover Early Retirees

9/9

Robots ‘to revolutionise surgery’

9/9

Nation Cannot Afford Not to Stem Medical Spending, Economists Warn

9/9

Baucus Seeks $6 Billion Yearly Fee on Health Insurers

9/9

Feldstein Says Obama Health-Care Plan Threatens Budget, Economy

9/9

Vita Advisors, LLC Press Release of September 8, 2009

9/9

The Aging Workforce: How to Fight the Risks

9/9

Scrutinizing the NHS: Can Socialized Medicine Be Cost-Effective?

9/9

Questions, answers on requiring health insurance

9/9

Qualcomm lowers power for body area networks

9/9

The rocky road for Obama’s health care journey

9/9

Study Estimates Hospital Penalties Generate Few Savings for Medicare

9/9

US healthcare: Who wants what?

9/9

Medicine’s Dangerous Guessing Game

9/8

A look at Baucus health care plan

9/8

A Medical Mystery: Why Health Care Is So Expensive

9/8

A Market ‘Fundamentally Changed’: How Health Proposals Could Affect Americans Who Buy Their Own Insurance

9/8

Fact or Fiction: Advance Care Planning In Health Reform

9/8

Will safety net hospitals survive health reform?

9/8

Key Week for Obama Starts on Feisty Note

9/8

Data Fuel Regional Fight on Medicare Spending

9/8

The Lawmakers Who Bear Watching as Congress Returns

9/8

Baucus Drafts Health Plan Using Insurance Co-ops (Update2)

9/8

Under the influence – the damaging effect of alcohol marketing on young people

9/7

Health-Reform Debates Spark Targeted Ads on Google

9/7

Health Care: What’s on the Table, What’s Ahead

9/7

A More Perfect Death

9/7

New Fee on Health Insurance Companies Is Proposed to Help Expand Coverage

9/4

Health Exchanges: Different Political Railroad Tracks to the Same Station?

9/4

Study Reveals Office Managers Wield Important Influence Over Access in Physician Offices

9/4

Report: Paying Medicare Advantage via competitive bidding won’t match traditional Medicare

9/4

Reported drug errors increase, says NPSA

9/4

Prescribing the prescribed drugs?

9/4

Health Care Idea Has Public Plan Only as Backup

9/4

Democrats Target High Earners to Help Fund Health Plan

9/4

Amedisys Shares Plunge on Executive Resignations

9/4

Nancy Pelosi: No public option, no bill

9/4

GE: Wireless interference holds back body sensor networks

9/4

Rumor: Philips to acquire CardioNet?

9/4

Microsoft HealthVault migrates out of beta

9/4

IPC The Hospitalist Company acquires Hospital Medicine Associates

9/4

Minnesota Experiment Puts Patient Health First: 2 of 2

9/4

Taking Doctors’ Profits Out Of Medical Care Decisions: 1 of 2

9/4

Health Plan Premiums Vary Widely by State

9/4

Eliminating Fees for Overlapping Services Could Save Millions for Medicare

9/4

Unstable Ground: The Need for Better Data to Make Better Health Care Policy

9/3

Kaiser Study Finds Shortcomings in Massachusetts Insurance Programs

9/3

Danaher to Buy Testing Companies, Cut Additional Jobs

9/3

Democrats Target High Earners to Help Fund Health Plan

9/3

Tangible and Unseen Health-Care Costs

9/3

Health care lobbyists boost key players in debate

9/3

Recession Accelerating Aging of U.S. Workforce, Survey Finds

9/3

Climbing the Hill on Health Care

9/3

Abbott acquires Visiogen for $400M

9/2

The Great ‘Prevention’ Myth

9/2

Health Insurers Set Up Shop at a Mall Near You

9/2

Health experts urge insurance, pay changes

9/2

Changing Health Care by Steps

9/2

Cardiac monitoring reimbursement cut effective today

9/2

Democrats Try Tougher Tone on Health Plan

9/2

ProMutual Completes Acquisition of FinCor Holdings, Inc.

9/2

MADIT-CRT — Breathtaking or Time to Catch Our Breath?

9/2

Heart Devices Reduce Hospitalization, Study Says

9/2

BioClinica Acquires CardioNow from Agfa Healthcare

9/2

Depression looms as global crisis

9/2

Montana weighs assisted suicide ruling

9/2

Mexico’s health care lures Americans

9/2

Bleak Cancer Reports Mask Major Advances

9/2

Health-Care Overhaul Needs New Savings Gauge, Researchers Say

9/1

Sliding economy leaves physicians wary about collections

9/1

CVS Clinics Match Care Offered at Physician’s Offices in Study

9/1

Retail Medical Clinics Offer Quality Care: Study

9/1

E-invoicing gets a boost with OB10

9/1

Social networks may boost transition to medical homes

9/1

Health Insurance: How Much More Should Older People Pay?

9/1

Drug Stores Consider How Reform Efforts May Affect Drug Stores

9/1

Montana Supreme Court to Tackle Physician-Assisted Suicide

9/1

Company wellness programs improve health, cut costs

9/1

New blood tests find heart attacks more quickly

9/1

U.S. Health Reform Estimates Need Long View: Study

9/1

‘Synthetic biology’ holds promise, but doubts simmer

9/1

Buyer Beware of Home DNA Tests

9/1

Medsphere Raises $12 Million to Sell Health-Records Software

9/1

Report maps out solutions to child obesity

9/1

Waxman Demands Insurers Explain ‘Purging’ Clients

9/1

Massachusetts Cuts Back Immigrants’ Health Care

9/1

U.S. Cities’ Woes to Worsen as Taxes Trail Pace of Recovery

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