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PAMF's integrated care model highlighted in today's SF Chronicle as a health care innovation that reduces costs http://ow.ly/vgHW

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Key leadership appointments announced at S&W - Scott & White - Central Texas

sw.org — “As Scott & White Healthcare President and CEO Robert W. Pryor, MD, approaches the close of his first full year running one of the largest integrated health care systems in the country, he has assembled a senior management team charged with leading the system into the new age of health care reform by finding solutions to providing the highest quality patient care at a lower cost and with outcomes resulting in healthier communities.View full resource at sw.org

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A Birthday Wish: Progress towards Better Care Coordination | Mastering Data Management

masteringdatamanagement.com — “The long-awaited final regulations for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) were released in late October. Key points of the ACO regulations, as well as other components of the Patient Protection Accountable Care Act (PPACA, aka Healthcare Reform bill), speak volumes to the importance HHS is putting on controlling healthcare costs and ...View full resource at masteringdatamanagement.com

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On her birthday, our Lorraine Fernandes has a wish for better care coordination: http://t.co/x3XtbQma #ACO #HIE #healthIT

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Less Than $26 Billion? Don't Bother. - NYTimes.com

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com — “Less Than $26 Billion? Don't Bother. - NYTimes.comView full resource at opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com

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Zeke Emanuel, NYTimes on cost containment in health care. Good pts re: liability reform. http://t.co/dEqe5kO0

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Prevention Will Reduce Medical Costs: A Persistent Myth - Health Care Cost Monitor

healthcarecostmonitor.thehastingscenter.org — “Despite an emphasis on preventive care in some health reform proposals, studies suggest that the use of more preventive medicine may in fact increase, rather than decrease, overall health expenditures. The key may be in realizing that with prevention, as with treatment, better health comes at a higher price most of the time.View full resource at healthcarecostmonitor.thehastingscenter.org

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paintmd Mike Painter Family Medicine Doctor, Health Lawyer, Physician, and Doctor

hmm? RT @Cascadia: @Craigley WSJ article based on 599 studies showed prevention incrsed costs 80% of time-author here http://t.co/BQXt1JxH

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Transradial Coronary Angiography and Percutaneous Intervention in the Era of Health Care Reform, Cost Containment, and Patient-Centered Care | Journal of Invasive Cardiology

invasivecardiology.com — “Transradial Coronary Angiography and Percutaneous Intervention in the Era of Health Care Reform, Cost Containment, and Patient-Centered Care | Journal of Invasive CardiologyView full resource at invasivecardiology.com

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Editorial: Examining the cost effectiveness of the transradial approach. http://t.co/bjkEMBB

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Health care in critical condition - Times Union

timesunion.com — “A federal appeals court panel recently struck down the mandate that most Americans must have health insurance starting in 2014. Offering health insurance at reasonable prices is a key component of making the reform law cost-effective and able to reach millions of uninsured people. The logic of getting private insurance companies to participate in state health insurance exchanges and offer good coverage at those reasonable prices predicates itself on having a balanced "risk pool" of indView full resource at timesunion.com

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Healthcare Reform is missing the mark to reduce a key driver of healthcare costs | HealthFlock

blogs.ajc.com — “Healthcare Reform is missing the mark to reduce a key driver of healthcare cost, chronic diseases. It does not contain a strategy or approach to control orView full resource at blogs.ajc.com

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RT @georgiahfma: #Healthcare #Reform is missing the mark to reduce a key driver of healthcare costs http://t.co/QiRWB0g #healthflock

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Health ‘Mandate’: Insurance requirement is key to reform's success | syracuse.com

blog.syracuse.com — “You can’t legally drive without a license, auto insurance and vehicle registration — and fastening your seat belt. Your paycheck contains deductions for Social Security and Medicare. Most Americans accept these “mandates” as sensible, even essential. During the debate over health insurance reform, critics raised the specter of death panels choosing who lives and dies, health care rationing and...View full resource at blog.syracuse.com

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Health 'Mandate': Insurance requirement is key to reform's success: By The Post-Standard Editorial Board The Ass... http://t.co/xC6AZtc

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Why health reform will not be repealed - Managed Care Matters - Joe Paduda

joepaduda.com — “Joe Paduda’s weblog on group health, workers compensation & auto insurance, covering health care cost containment, health policy, health research, and medical news for insurers, employers, and healthcare providers.View full resource at joepaduda.com

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Via GN: Why health reform will not be repealed: It's pretty simple, really. Once people gain actual real-life e... http://bit.ly/jikw6b

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Advocates begin effort to enroll uninsured Mass. children - The Boston Globe

boston.com — “Thousands of Massachusetts children remain without health care coverage despite the state’s universal insurance law, a chasm that is prompting the launch today of a campaign by state leaders and consumer advocates to get all youngsters enrolled.View full resource at boston.com

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Boston Globe: Parents turning to HCFA HelpLine to get their kids connected to health care coverage http://bo.st/l529u3 #CoveringAllKids

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Pawlenty's health-care claims during debate get mixed ratings

news-medical.net — “During the first Republican presidential debate of the 2012 campaign, former Gov. Tim Pawlenty reminded viewers that President Barack Obama was against a requirement that everyone buy health insurance before he was for it. Just a few years ago, Obama "promised the nation he would do health care reform focused on cost containment, he opposed the individual mandate," Pawlenty said on May 5, 2011.View full resource at news-medical.net

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Pawlenty's health-care claims during debate get mixed ratings: During the first Republican presidential debate o... http://bit.ly/mHREE6

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The future of health reform - lessons from workers comp - Managed Care Matters - Joe Paduda

joepaduda.com — “Joe Paduda--™s weblog on group health, workers compensation & auto insurance, covering health care cost containment, health policy, health research, and medical news for insurers, employers, and healthcare providers.View full resource at joepaduda.com

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The future of health reform - lessons from workers comp http://bit.ly/eWe1LN #hcr

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Mass. Senate leader sees action on health costs - BusinessWeek

businessweek.com — “Massachusetts Senate President Therese Murray said Thursday that the Senate was prepared to take the lead in passing a bill reforming the state's health care payment system.View full resource at businessweek.com

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CBO Says GOP Medicare Plan Would Double The Cost Of Health Care For Seniors - Rick Ungar - The Policy Page - Forbes

blogs.forbes.com — “Despite Rep. Paul Ryan--™s suggestion that the independent and bi-partisan Congressional Budget Office had signed off on the numbers he has presented in his 2012 budget proposal, it is now emerging that Rep. Ryan has failed to tell us the entire story. One of the key provisions contained in the Ryan [...]View full resource at blogs.forbes.com

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CBO Says GOP Medicare Plan Would Double The Cost Of Health Care For Seniors: While Ryan promised that the plan w... http://bit.ly/fQLRsl

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Health care's evil twins — cost and coverage

telegram.com — “Gov. Deval L. Patrick ramped up his push yesterday for fundamental changes in the way medical care is paid for. He called for faster legislative action on cost-containment reforms as well on a proposal to reduce municipal health care costs.View full resource at telegram.com

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Health care's evil twins — cost and coverage: Deval L. Patrick ramped up his push yesterday for fundamental chan... http://bit.ly/grECjq

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