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Healthcare Spending Continues to Rise

By Geoff Cockrell on July 16, 2012
Posted in Healthcare Services Investing

The National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA), published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), are the official estimates of total national healthcare spending. The NHEA measures annual U.S. expenditures for healthcare goods and services, public health activities…

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Doctors Say Medicare/Medicaid EHR Guidelines Onerous

By Amber Walsh on June 21, 2012
Posted in Healthcare Services Investing

Doctors and organized medical associations are voicing their objections to proposed Stage 2 Medicare and Medicaid guidelines, saying the new standards are far too demanding for many smaller and less-sophisticated medical practices. Practitioners are asking that requirements be within a…

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ACOs Working Out Initial Difficulties

By Amber Walsh on June 14, 2012
Posted in Life Sciences Investing

Apparently some early participants in the accountable care organization (ACO) program are experiencing problems accessing crucial CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) data.

The acting administrator of CMS has reported to ACO supervisors and others at a conference last…

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – The Rebuttal

By Amber Walsh on May 16, 2012
Posted in Healthcare Services Investing

In prior posts we have discussed financial data released by the Obama administration regarding the financial upside of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the healthcare reform law. Recently, we discussed a current study by the Centers …

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Trial

By Amber Walsh on May 7, 2012
Posted in Healthcare Services Investing

 

From March 26 through 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the multi-state challenge to the 2010 healthcare reform law known as Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).  Our McGuireWoods colleagues published a…

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Skilled Nursing Facilities Feel Medicare/Medicaid Slash

By Geoff Cockrell on September 19, 2011
Posted in Life Sciences Investing

It appears that the glory days of investing in skilled nursing facilities (SNF) are over. In a report from Avalere Health, profits for these facilities are predicted to flatline by 2014, only three short years from now. As a result…

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Investment Opportunities in ACOs

By Amber Walsh on August 18, 2011
Posted in Healthcare Services Investing

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have become a catchphrase within today’s healthcare industry. As we have discussed in prior posts, ACOs are intended to be a vehicle for providing physicians and medical centers financial incentives to continue offering high-quality medical services…

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