WellPoint Launches Innovative Reimbursement Initiative, Partnering With ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The new program will also incorporate best practices from the company's multiple medical home pilots. "Primary care physicians who are committed to expanding access, to coordinating care for their patients and being accountable for the quality of care ...

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Gingrich's Health Center Was Power Player In A Host Of Washington Policy Debates
NJ TODAY
The center's advocacy has ranged from promoting costly high- technology medicine to pressing for tax breaks benefiting purchasers of controversial high-deductible insurance plans. Gingrich severed ties with the center last year.

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Aetna Exploring Use of New Technology to Reduce Tobacco Use Among Patients
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Through the new program, Aetna will promote tobacco counseling by dentists and will study the impact that a smoking cessation clinical decision support system (CDSS) has on a patient's tobacco use. A CDSS is a system designed to integrate a medical ...

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Covidien Reports First-Quarter Results
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"This strong performance was again led by our largest business segment, Medical Devices, which delivered growth fueled by double-digit advances in Energy and Vascular products. "During the first quarter, we also significantly increased R&D spending and ...

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International Business Times

Republican Debate in Florida - LIVE COVERAGE
International Business Times
He repeats an argument he has made before, that when he started practicing medicine, there was no Medicare or Medicaid, and you didn't have anyone on the streets lacking health care, he claims. 9:14 pm: "Your mandate is no different from Barack Obama's ...

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Health Net Receives Full URAC Accreditation for Health Utilization Management ...
MarketWatch (press release)
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., Jan 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Health Net Federal Services, LLC, part of the Government Contracts segment of Health Net, Inc. /quotes/zigman/269931/quotes/nls/hnt HNT +1.88% , announced today it has been awarded full ...

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Amgen to Acquire Micromet
MarketWatch (press release)
Amgen therapeutics have changed the practice of medicine, helping millions of people around the world in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis, bone disease and other serious illnesses. With a deep and broad pipeline of ...

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Cisco Tops 10000 Unified Computing System Customers; Captures 53 Industry ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"We've also used UCS to provision highly secure file transfer protocol (FTP) to share enormous quantities of data with other research institutions to facilitate collaboration on medical research." ISV Partner Ecosystem for UCS Independent software ...

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Tight-fisted mortgage lenders pressure home sales
msnbc.com
Mortgage brokers were pushing the toxic assets (which were created by too much government involvement) as non-toxic because their was insurance to back it up and it was implied that they were guaranteed by the government. There were a few that knew ...

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Bristol-Myers Squibb Delivers Solid Fourth Quarter Capping a Year Highlighted ...
MarketWatch (press release)
In November, at the AHA, the companies presented new data from a Phase III trial of ELIQUIS(R) for the prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients with acute medical illness that showed ELIQUIS(R) did not meet the primary efficacy outcome of ...

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