Headlines Archive for April 2010

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4/30

For nearly three decades, editorials, online posts and surveys have noted this rising frustration and anger among practicing physicians.  But over the last two years, the pot of emotions seems to have boiled over.

4/30

After being criticized as obstructionists during the long health-care debate, insurance companies now are implementing some popular provisions even sooner than the law demands

4/30

Could Streamlining Medical Billing Save $7 Billion a Year?

4/30

Global venture capital investment in the first quarter mirrored a U.S. trend by rising in most regions from a year earlier, though Europe proved to be the exception by falling back slightly

4/30

Personalized medicine that might one day be possible if doctors have a map of their patients’ DNA

4/30

It seems incredible, but these are the facts:  As of 2005, at least 9 million young adults — 27 percent of all Americans ages 17 to 24 — were too overweight to serve in the military, according to the Army’s analysis of national data

4/30

Friday is the deadline for states to tell the Obama administration whether they want to run the high-risk insurance pool for uninsured people with pre-existing conditions

4/30

Provenge: It will be interesting to see what procedures they use to allocate the treatment. A lottery? First-come, first-served? Sickest patients first?

4/30

Santa Clara County passed an ordinance banning restaurants from giving out toys with meals of more than 485 calories.

4/30

When a patient dies from diabetes complications, such as a heart attack or a stroke, coroners and physicians will be encouraged to list diabetes on the death certificate

4/29

There’s not enough evidence to suggest that medicines or dietary supplements prevent Alzheimer’s disease or cognitive decline, an independent committee of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health concluded

4/29

A new study detailing the uncompensated work burden on family doctors points to the need to change how they are paid

4/29

Health-insurance customers won’t risk losing their coverage when they become sick under an industry wide ban beginning in May

4/29

American HomePatient, one of the nation’s largest home health care providers, announced that it has entered into an agreements to complete transactions that are intended to result in a going-private transaction

4/29

The UCLA engineer has created a miniature microscope, the world’s smallest and lightest for telemedicine applications.

4/29

First Congress said it was a regulation of commerce. Now it’s supposed to be a tax. Neither claim will survive Supreme Court scrutiny

4/29

More Companies Disclose Effects of Health Overhaul

4/29

States have until tomorrow to let Washington know if they plan to participate in one of the first government programs to be launched under ObamaCare—new high-risk pools for the uninsured.

4/29

Video:  The Committee will hold a hearing on April 22, 2010 at 2:00 pm in Dirksen 562. The title of the hearing is: “Aging in Place: The National Broadband Plan and Bringing Health Care Technology Home.”

4/29

While opportunities abound for employing telehealth and home monitoring to improve care and provide greater access to care, barriers remain

4/28

Management Health Solutions, a leading provider of supply chain management solutions to hospitals, announced today the completion of a $7.0 million Series B equity investment

4/28

If the adoption of telemedicine at hospitals and other medical facilities is to take flight, service providers, technology vendors, and healthcare payers and providers must collaborate to build a cohesive strategy that involves a mature reimbursement model

4/28

A report by Mercer finds that retailers may be in the not-so-sweet spot when it comes to complying with some of the new employer requirements

4/28

Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell and Drew Carey invest in Qliance Medical Management, a Seattle firm that intends to deliver primary care to patients by excising insurance companies from the chain

4/28

The number of $2,000 PET imaging tests done for elderly cancer patients rose by more than one- third each year from 1999 to 2006, driving up treatment costs

4/28

Health plans can subtract taxes and include as costs “activities that improve health care quality” to meet mandates on how much they spend on medical care

4/28

Healthline Networks, the leading provider of intelligent health information services, announced that it has raised $14 million in a third round of financing

4/27

Management Health Solutions, Inc. (MHS) Secures $7.0 Million Series B Equity Investment

4/27

President Barack Obama is pushing to speed up insurance coverage for young adults in their twenties

4/27

Of all the changes wrought by the new health care law, none is more sweeping than the transformation of Medicaid

4/27

The new federal health care legislation includes $11 billion to establish more than 1,200 community health centers to provide treatment

4/27

Top U.S. business schools have increasingly seen health care management as a major challenge and opportunity.

4/27

House Democrats have concluded that the companies were right to tell investors and the government about the expected adverse effects of the law on their financial results.

4/27

The U.S. medical-system overhaul will improve the nation’s health and cut costs only if it’s followed by initiatives to curtail the epidemic of obesity and diabetes

4/26

The Veterans Affairs Department has used in-home monitoring and teleconferencing systems to cut hospital admissions by 19 percent

4/26

Currently, the FDA does not have a clear regulatory pathway for devices intended for home use

4/26

Speakers at the Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing on April 22nd emphasized the need to use telehealth technologies to improve patient care especially in the aging population

4/26

The Department of Health and Human Services has begun posting a list of breaches of private computerized health records affecting 500 or more individuals – the list already includes more than 60 incidents

4/26

A report, issued by the academy’s Institute of Medicine, says that about 40 percent of all advanced clinical trials sponsored by the Cancer Institute are never completed.

4/26

GTCR, one of the country’s leading private equity firms, announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Protection One, a national provider of electronic security alarm monitoring services, for approximately $828 million

4/26

Barely a month later, are Democrats scrambling to pass a new bill that would impose price controls on insurance?

4/26

Home health care—treating sick patients in their homes rather than paying for costly hospitalizations—is the fastest growing area of the health-care industry, aimed at saving billions of dollars every year.

4/26

Health-care giant Johnson & Johnson said the recently enacted U.S. health-care overhaul would take a bite out of financial results this year and next

4/26

What’s it going to cost me?  That’s the single biggest unanswered question about Obama’s new health care overhaul law – and its weak spot

4/26

Medicare Advantage plans, private insurance for the elderly, may survive losing $136 billion in government subsidies under Obama’s health-care law

4/26

Con artists in several states are seizing on the public’s financial struggles and confusion about the recent health care overhaul

4/25

Beringea, a Farmington Hills, MI, venture capital firm, has invested $6 million in InTouch Health, a telemedicine company based in Santa Barbara, CA

4/23

Majorities of Americans described themselves as “confused” about the new health care bill and acknowledge they don’t have enough information about it to grasp how it will affect their lives

4/23

Baxter said earnings for the year will be reduced by an increase in Medicaid rebates and a change in the taxes for retiree prescription drug benefits required under the health- care law enacted in March

4/23

A Duke oncologist is warning that the emphasis on comparative effectiveness studies may present obstacles for the field of cancer research

4/23

A genetic test can help some heart-transplant patients avoid frequent biopsies, researchers reported Thursday

4/23

Nearly 4 million Americans will have to pay a penalty if they fail to get health insurance when that element of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law kicks in

4/23

Obama’s health care overhaul law will increase the nation’s health care tab instead of bringing costs down, government economic forecasters concluded Thursday in a sobering assessment of the sweeping legislation

4/23

Telus, Canada’s third-largest wireless carrier, plans to make acquisitions to expand its business providing telecommunication services to the health-care industry

4/23

Patient access to their summary and discharge data is vital because nowadays they are “kicked out” of the hospital to continue recuperation at home

4/22

American Well™ announced today that it has signed an agreement to bring American Well’s Online Care services to select Rite Aid patients in select Rite Aid stores

4/22

The FDA announced today that it has cleared Proteus Biomedical’s wireless, adhesive sensor technology Raisin, which can track and record a patient’s heart rate, physical activity, body position and other biometrics

4/22

The changes to Medicaid rebates that are paring some drug companies’ sales and earnings may also cut into already-ailing state budgets

4/22

Head honchos at medical societies and top editors at their associated journals will have to sever direct financial ties with industry as part of new ethics rules rolled out today

4/21

TANDBERG, the leading global provider of Telepresence, high-definition video conferencing and mobile video today announced that sales for its products and services during 2009 were up more than* 39 per cent in the UK healthcare sector from 2008.

4/21

Fearing that health insurance premiums may shoot up in the next few years, Senate Democrats laid a foundation on Tuesday for federal regulation of rates, four weeks after  Obama signed a law intended to rein in soaring health costs

4/21

Who should be held accountable when a company sells a flawed product that can injure or kill patients? Is it the company or the people who run it?

4/21

UnitedHealth Group Inc. experienced a significant jump in quarterly profit as the health insurer’s strategy of diversifying beyond traditional insurance plans shows signs of paying off

4/21

It’s all fine and good to target cancer drugs to the specific pathways responsible for the disease but the tests to determine who needs those drugs are not always accurate

4/21

North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan and Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer are advocating a proposal to allow residents of the two states to buy less expensive prescription medicine from Canada

4/21

Global pharmaceutical sales are expected to grow by an average of 5% to 8% annually over the next five years, with drugs to treat cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and HIV

4/21

Playing memory, reasoning or other brain games won’t make you smarter or mentally stronger, researchers said.

4/21

U.S. regulators will strengthen their oversight of medical devices used at home

4/21

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Transparency Web site today as part of the agency’s transparency initiative

4/20

A new version of the Bluetooth wireless technology could expand what can be done by watches, toys, home sensors, medical monitors and other devices that typically have been limited in their functions because of battery life

4/20

So-called targeted therapies are only as good as tests to find their protein targets. And while most patients do not yet know it, those tests can be surprisingly unreliable.

4/20

With hospitals discharging patients after ever-shorter stays, more people are recovering and continuing post-operative care, or treating chronic conditions, with sophisticated medical equipment at home.

4/20

The individual mandate was created was to attract as many healthy people as possible to the individual market to offset the demands of the many sick people who will be buying in – yet no one really knows which way people struggling in a tough economy will go

4/20

Drug companies sharply raised prices last year, ahead of increased rebates they must pay to Medicaid and other expenses tied to the federal health overhaul passed last month.

4/20

There’s mounting evidence and support among cardiologists that moderation in the battle against heart disease can often achieve results that are at least as good as aggressive tactics.

4/20

In Effort to Limit C-Sections, Two Methods Yield Different Results on Staten Island

4/20

A lung cancer screening technique promoted by some patient advocates leads to a false diagnosis of the disease in about 33 percent of patients after two annual tests, researchers said.

4/20

Drug sales may grow at least 5 percent worldwide in each year through 2014 as increasing demand in developing countries offsets price drops tied to generic competition

4/20

Doctors are increasingly prescribing medications electronically, abandoning the traditional paper scripts that can result in drug errors due to hard-to-read writing or coverage denials by a patient’s insurer.

4/20

The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans

4/20

President announced nominee for administrator of the CMS with Donald Berwick, a Harvard University professor and leading advocate for improving health-care quality and efficiency

4/20

The hospitals ranked No. 1 for each of 12 medical specialties were ranked based on reputation scores alone; studies show these were “minimally associated” with objective quality measures

4/20

A new model of health-care delivery is coming to communities and community hospitals across northern Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin.

4/19

Sotera Wireless, Inc. a developer of patient monitoring technology, announced completion of a $10.75 million strategic investment round

4/19

The retail clinic pioneer, MinuteClinic, earlier this month launched a new service to monitor chronic conditions – an Interview

4/19

Medical transcription company MedQuist said it received court approval to buy all the assets of bankrupt rival Spheris Inc for $116.3 million.

4/19

Many Democrats and Republicans agree on one aspect of Obama’s health-care overhaul: they despise the Medicare payment commission the law will create

4/19

When President Obama tried to sell his health-care law as a moderate approach that borrows ideas developed by the Heritage Foundation, the Heritage Foundation took exception

4/19

Venture investment in U.S. companies rose last quarter compared to a year ago, but the $4.71 billion wagered was still one of the lowest quarterly totals on record

4/19

Obama is assembling a high-level team to carry out key elements of the overhaul and is considering moving faster than the law requires to put them into action

4/19

Personalized medicine can help us extend the healthy lifespan and achieve greater value in health care by honing in on the right tests and treatments for the right people at the right time

4/19

Healthy people subsidize people who need more health care – healthier customers discover high premiums are not worth it and dropped out – the pool of insured people shrank – premiums skyrocketed

4/19

The idea was simple enough: Make sure that health insurers spend the vast majority of their revenue on patient care

4/19

Pharmaceutical company bonds, the most expensive in the U.S. corporate credit market, face rating cuts after a buyout spree to replace expiring patents

4/19

Connecture, Inc. announced today that it has acquired Insurint in a bold step towards transforming health insurance distribution

4/16

The venture capital industry seems to need a bit longer to recover after last year, when Silicon Valley froze in response to the economic uncertainty

4/16

The Internal Revenue Service won’t audit you to make sure you have purchased health insurance —but it may withhold your tax refund if you can’t demonstrate that you are insured

4/16

In July, a special high-risk pool will offer coverage to uninsured people with pre-existing health conditions – some vulnerable patients are probably going to feel a little cheated

4/16

It’s low-hanging fruit to rid our system of procedures and tests that we’re spending a lot of money on that are actually making people worse

4/16

Software maker Oracle Corp is set to buy drug data management software company Phase Forward for about $685 million

4/16

Justice Stephen G. Breyer predicted Thursday that the Supreme Court will one day be forced to pass judgment on the constitutionality of President Obama’s just-passed health care overhaul plan.

4/16

Opposition to President Barack Obama’s health care law jumped after he signed it – a warning to Democrats

4/16

Asked how the new law will affect the growth in medical costs, 24 economists said it will accelerate growth, seven said it will slow growth somewhat and 15 said it will have little-to-no effect.

4/16

The power of studies – Liver dialysis machines designed to carry out the organ’s function until a transplant, failed to prolong lives in two studies that may alter the way cirrhosis is treated

4/16

The National Cancer Institute’s Clinical Trials Cooperative Group Program — which coordinates and facilitates trials of new cancer treatments — is “at a breaking point”

4/16

If the new federal law equalizing coverage for mental conditions with that for medical-surgical care works as hoped, there may no longer be a need for a public system

4/15

The managed-care industry is gearing up to go after one of the biggest new markets to be created by the new federal health-care law: the roughly 16 million new people eligible Medicaid

4/15

Companies specializing in medical imaging are pushing to develop chemical agents to detect Alzheimer’s disease from brain scans

4/15

Two new initiatives formed that added to the list of aging-related tech consortia and industry trade groups.  GOAL launched in early April and AgeTek in March, adding to the existing CAST consortium.

4/15

Under the weight of a weak technology market, exits for venture-backed companies in Europe remained dismal following a year of bad news.

4/15

Waxman sent a memo to panel members saying the April 21 hearing was canceled because company executives wanted more time to assess the law as it is implemented.

4/14

U.S. Renal Care, Inc. and Dialysis Corporation of America announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement for USRC to acquire DCA.

4/14

The health system reforms signed into law in March will cover an estimated 32 million uninsured patients by 2019. But there may not be enough physicians to care for them

4/14

UnitedHealth Group and Walgreens say they’re teaming up with the YMCA on a program that will reimburse pharmacists and lifestyle coaches to help insured patients prevent and control diabetes

4/14

D.C. officials say the city will save millions of dollars from the recently approved federal health-care bill as it starts transferring childless adults from a city-backed insurance program to Medicaid

4/14

The nagging and largely solvable problem of hospital-acquired infections remains as resistant to cure as the germs that contribute to an estimated 100,000 deaths a year

4/14

Insurance commissioner will not comply with a federal request to create a state pool for high-risk insurance plans, opening a new front in the resistance to the new federal health care law

4/14

Harvard Medical School professor  says a $3 billion injection of funds from health overhaul bill is certain to accelerate research that compares the effectiveness of drugs and other medical therapies

4/14

Researchers wanted to know if physicians’ behavior and attitudes explain some of the regional variations in the number of intensive procedures.

4/14

Congress is getting ready for another episode of its recurring doctor drama: Block the Medicare Payment Cuts If You Can!

4/13

A U.S. mandate forcing insurers spend 85 percent of revenue from premiums on medical care is the newest front in the battle between the Obama administration and companies over industry profits.

4/13

New gadgets and online tools are giving people a clearer picture not only of how active they are during the day, but also how well they sleep at night

4/13

A new generation of anti-obesity drugs could hit the market in coming months, the latest attempt in what has proved a difficult medicine to make safe for patients

4/13

The new federal health-care law has raised the stakes for hospitals and schools already scrambling to train more doctors

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4/13

The question is, how can we make sure the technology actually delivers? How can we make sure the digitization of medical records does everything its advocates believe is possible?

4/13

Could Health Reform’s emphasis on wellness undermine one of its central achievements: putting an end to the practice of charging sick people more for health insurance?

4/13

Video:  Chet Burrell, chief executive officer at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, talks about the potential impact of the U.S. health-care overhaul

4/13

Interventional radiologists say they can save on health-care costs in the long run because most procedures don’t require expensive hospital stays

4/13

Online simulation designed to help nurses make quick, sure decisions in emergencies.

4/13

CVS Caremark Corp., the largest U.S. provider of prescription drugs, will double the number of in-store medical clinics it operates within five years

4/12

Video clip:  Physician-geneticist Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, was interviewed by Kaiser Health News. He spoke about comparative effectiveness research, health reform and lowering healthcare costs.

4/12

In Obama’s Deal, airing Tuesday, April 13, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS, FRONTLINE takes viewers behind the headlines to reveal the political maneuvering behind Obama’s effort to remake the American health system.

4/12

Aetna was suspended from signing up new members for its Medicare Advantage plans because the insurer didn’t comply with rules about changing drug-plan designs

4/12

The nation’s fiscal path is “unsustainable,” and the problem “cannot be solved through minor tinkering,” the head of the Congressional Budget Office

4/12

HHS and the ONC awarded a $15 million grant to “investigate, evaluate, and prototype approaches to achieving an ‘iPhone-like’ health information technology platform model.”

4/12

Consensus is Congress will provide higher Medicaid reimbursements to states for six months past the December expiration but broader round of spending is unlikely.

4/9

StrataCare, LLC, a market and technology leader in workers’ compensation medical bill review acquired the MedBillPro™ division of CS Stars LLC, a business unit of Marsh, Inc

4/9

This week it became impossible in Massachusetts for small businesses and individuals to buy health-care coverage after Governor Deval Patrick imposed price controls on premiums

4/9

Meridian Health is working together with their local Best Buy store to assess whether consumers are comfortable buying connected health devices at a big box electronics store

4/9

The coming convergence of wireless communications, social networking and medicine will transform health care

4/9

The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it was strengthening the agency’s approval process for new radiotherapy equipment.

4/9

More than $7.5 billion was committed to fund 459 mergers and acquisitions of home health care companies announced during the 10-year period ended December 31, 2009

4/9

Office of Personnel Management:  “We expect you to provide benefits for preventive care, immunizations, and screenings with no enrollee cost sharing”

4/9

Boston Scientific Corp. is seeking buyers for its Target Therapeutics and neuromodulation units

4/8

Management Health Solutions, the leading provider of clinical inventory solutions to the nation’s hospitals and healthcare providers, announced today its acquisition of AtPar Inc., a leading developer of mobile supply chain software.

4/8

Studies have found, for example, that patients with chronic diseases normally take only about half their prescribed medications and that 10 percent of hospital admissions result from patients not following the guidelines on their prescriptions

4/8

HCA Inc., bought four years ago in a $33 billion leveraged buyout led by KKR & Co. and Bain Capital LLC, is preparing an initial public offering that may raise $3 billion

4/8

Management Health Solutions (clinical inventory solutions to the nation’s hospitals and health care providers) acuqires AtPar Inc., a developer of mobile supply chain software

4/8

One recent study showed that even among patients who have health plans with no cost sharing for medications, rates of non-adherence were nearly 40%

4/8

Home telemonitoring – imagine a world in which all vendors have agreed on a consistent RESTful or SMTP-based transport protocol using a well defined addressing mechanism

4/8

Scientists may have found a way to tell which smokers are at highest risk of developing lung cancer: measuring a telltale genetic change inside their windpipes

4/8

There are at least 22 specific provisions that will have an effect on the connected health and personal health industry – the following 21 provisions that are relevant to connected health.

4/7

Medpace has acquired Symbios Clinical, a CRO dedicated to medical device clinical trials with expertise in pre-market, post-approval and post-market / outcomes trials

4/7

While doctors are worrying a lot about whether Congress will block the 21 percent scheduled cut in Medicare payments, a fix to Medicaid payments is raising another question – under the new law, the Medicaid raise may only last two years

4/7

A so-called Medicare innovation center and a Medicare oversight board that can set payment rates – but all these groups will face the same basic problem – Americans tend to believe that more care is better care.

4/7

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to regulate how Internet service providers manage their networks

4/7

The governors of Arizona and Nevada say their states will join 14 others suing the federal government over health care reform.

4/7

The VA often gets high marks for being an early adopter of electronic medical systems – a study tries to put a price-tag on what the VA systems collectively called Vista

4/7

A study of Medicare patients shows that costlier, more complex spinal fusion surgeries are on the rise – and sometimes done unnecessarily

4/7

Health overhaul calls for $130 billion in Medicare Advantage cuts, which covers 11 million people -  insurers will offset some of the expense by raising premiums on customers

4/6

IRS Commissioner said the agency will rely on insurance companies to provide information that individuals are buying coverage as required by the new health-care overhaul.

4/6

The heart-attack rate among elderly Americans appears to be falling sharply. The rate of hospital admissions for heart attack was 23% lower in 2007 than in 2002, according to a just-published analysis of Medicare data

4/6

A number of scientific studies have found that the amount of sugar we consume is a major factor in how big Americans have become. In the last half-century, consumption of sugars by the average American has increased by more than 24 pounds a year

4/6

An estimated 8% of U.S. children have ADHD (attention-deficit disorder) and some 50% of them outgrow it.  About 4.4% of U.S. adults—some 10 million people—also have ADHD and less than one-quarter of them are aware of it.

4/6

Intel’s Eric Dishman, the Director of Health Innovation and Policy for Intel’s Digital Health Group, presented on home health monitoring devices and services (video)

4/6

Medical device maker CareFusion Corp announced that it has signed deal to acquire privately-owned Medegen Inc. for $225 million

4/6

Online resources for information on health-care reform – here are some Web sites worth keeping an eye on

4/5

Merge Healthcare completed a private placement of preferred and common stock totaling $41.75 million, which is specified for use in funding a portion of the proposed acquisition of AMICAS

4/5

Congress with little fanfare approved a set of wide-ranging public initiatives to prevent disease and encourage healthy behavior

4/5

New work by a trio of economists, circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research, suggests that reform could produce a significant increase in demand for health care from previously uninsured young adults

4/5

Patent expirations have been a headache for Big Pharma in recent years, eroding revenues and causing many stocks to trail the broad market. But generic-drug manufacturers have thrived

4/2

As insurers wrestle with the changes coming from the federal health overhaul in Washington, they also face challenges at the state level from regulators seeking to head off big premium hikes.

4/2

Sales of prescription drugs in the U.S. rose 5.1 percent last year, a rebound from 2008, led by demand for antidepressants and cancer medicines.

4/2

It’s no joke for doctors that today marks the day that Medicare’s 21% reimbursement pay cuts were to go into effect. Congress left for its Easter recess without voting to delay the scheduled April 1 start of lower payments to docs.

4/2

A unit of WellPoint Inc. dropped Stellaris Health Network, a four-hospital chain in Westchester, N.Y., from its network after Stellaris asked for a 15% increase in reimbursement payments from the health insurer.

4/2

With the encouragement of Gov. Deval L. Patrick, Massachusetts insurance regulators took the extraordinary step Thursday of rejecting nearly 9 out of 10 rate increases requested by the state’s health insurers.

4/2

In about six months, the new law will allow at least 2 million young adults to be covered under their parents’ policies. These are the “millennials,” those who came of age in the new century and now are struggling to get on their feet

4/2

Duke Energy Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jim Rogers said the new U.S. health-care law was passed in a “Father Knows Best” fashion and will end up costing companies far more than they expect.

4/1

Alere Health, a leader in personal health support solutions, announced a partnership with  UK-based Monica Healthcare Ltd, developers of a groundbreaking wireless, wearable fetal-maternal monitor.

4/1

Medical Connections, one of the nation’s fastest growing healthcare staffing companies comments on the attributes of its pending acquisition of Trustaff Management, Inc.

4/1

Congress acquiesced to Obama’s insistence that it create a presidentially appointed Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) to craft ways to slow Medicare spending that will take effect automatically unless Congress votes to reject them.

4/1

Small taxes on soda do little to reduce soft drink consumption or prevent childhood obesity, but larger levies probably would, according to new research.

4/1

A significant number of the elderly – more than one in four – will eventually need someone to make end-of-life decisions about their medical care, a new study suggests

4/1

A look at some of the health care legislation’s impact on Medicare: Seniors Wary of Health Overhaul Impact on Medicare

4/1

Economists not connected with either political party expect the new law add to the reluctance of millions of businesses to take on new workers because they must provide costly and comprehensive medical benefits that previously were optional.

Vita Advisors, LLC is a research-based strategic advisory firm serving the health care industry.

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