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	<description>Industry news and insights by Ken Terry</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Healthcare Roundup: Wal-Mart Steps Forward, Ryan to Step Down, Novant Expands to Virginia, and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Terry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Steps Forward – Wal-Mart Stores, the nation’s largest retailer, has endorsed the idea of an employer mandate to cover workers, with three caveats: it must be part of larger health care reforms, it must exempt small firms, and it must allow employers to offer the kind of basic coverage that Wal-Mart provides to its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industry Pushes Back on EHR "Meaningful Use" Definition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Terry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When the government’s Health IT Policy Committee met a couple of weeks ago, some committee members suggested that a workgroup’s preliminary definition of “meaningful use” of electronic health records had gone too far. Now the official comments are in, and it’s clear that most of the healthcare industry agrees that the requirements in the workgroup’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CMS Proposes to Shift More Money to Primary-Care Doctors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Terry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Initial reaction from the nation’s medical societies to CMS’ proposal to shift money from specialists to primary-care physicians in 2010 was surprisingly muted. The AMA, which has opposed any such reallocation of Medicare reimbursement, applauded CMS’ announcement that it intends to remove the cost of physician-administered drugs (mostly used in cancer care) from the reimbursement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Obstacle to Health Reform: Government Rules</title>
		<link>http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/1000868/another-obstacle-to-health-reform-government-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Terry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Gainsharing, or the splitting of cost savings between hospitals and physicians, has been prohibited since 1999. But a new opinion from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), in the Department of Health and Human Services, opens the door a crack to very limited kinds of gainsharing. At the same time, the opinion illustrates the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Savings Accounts: Much Ado About Nothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Terry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps because the Republicans are now in the minority, their favorite reform idea—consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs)—has not attracted much attention lately.  But a new proposal in the U.S. Senate to put new limits on health savings accounts (HSAs) might revive this debate.
As you’ll recall, CDHPs combine high-deductible policies with HSAs, which are tax-favored bank accounts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Committee's Health Insurance Plan Doesn't Add Up</title>
		<link>http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/1000855/senate-committees-health-insurance-plan-doesnt-add-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Terry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The great magicians on the Senate Finance Committee have pulled the rabbit out of their hat to reduce the 10-year cost of their reform plan to $1 trillion. And what have they come up with? According to Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), they’ve cut the cost mainly by reducing eligibility for government subsidies. For example, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Roundup: Enthoven's Take on Reform, Help For Small Practices, Docs Drop Credit Cards, and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Terry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Eminent Economist Speaks - Alain Enthoven, a professor emeritus of management at Stanford University, has weighed in against the public option that many Democrats espouse. In a New York Times op-ed piece cowritten with David Riemer, director of the Community Advocates Public Policy Institute in Milwaukee, Enthoven, who supplied much of the intellectual firepower for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Private Insurers Could Compete With a Public Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Commonwealth Fund, one of the principal sources of health policy ideas for the Obama Administration, has estimated the potential savings of three different insurance reform scenarios from 2010 to 2020. Assuming that unspecified Medicare reforms and delivery system changes were implemented within a framework of universal coverage, the report predicts that an approach that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Insurers Go Toe-to-Toe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Terry</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama today rebutted insurance industry claims that the proposed “public option”—a government-sponsored plan that would compete with private insurers—would lead to the end of the employer-based insurance system.
“If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality health care &#8230; then why is it that the government, which they say can&#8217;t run anything, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EMR Fear and Loathing at the American Medical Association</title>
		<link>http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/1000797/fear-and-loathing-at-the-american-medical-association/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Versel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If some of the paranoia about health IT that I heard last week at the American Medical Association annual meeting really is representative of practicing physicians &#8212; and not just the protectionist Medical Establishment &#8212; this country is in trouble.
As much as the AMA purports to speak for all doctors, only about one in five [...]]]></description>
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