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Bill Copeland to Lead Deloitte's Life Sciences and Health Care Practice

February 29th, 2012

NEW YORK, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Deloitte, the largest professional services organization in the United States, has named Bill Copeland as its national managing principal of the life sciences and ………click here to continue reading

Social Insurance and Individual Freedom

December 10th, 2011

The United States might learn a good deal from Germany’s approach to health care insurance, which provides both a broad net and significant individual choice, an economist writes…….click here to continue reading

Why Does Health Care Cost So Much in the United States?

November 25th, 2011

Different costs for the same procedure in 2009. Figures from the OECD. Staying healthy in the United States is expensive. In fact, in 2009, the average annual cost of health care was $7,960 per person — two and a half times what it was in Japan for the same year. That’s just one of the numbers we poured over in the new report out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ………click here to continue reading

Hospice owner from Churchville charged in health care fraud scheme

October 30th, 2011

PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was unsealed Oct. 12 charging Matthew Kolodesh, a/k/a “Matvei Kolodech,” of Churchville, with conspiracy to defraud Medicare of more than $14 million through his home hospice business, said United States Attorney Zane David Memeger…….click here to continue reading

Rising health care costs hitting family pocketbooks

September 9th, 2011

Health care costs have risen faster than the cost of other goods and services in the United States over the past decade, leaving many Americans financially worse off, according to a new RAND Corp. study released Thursday…….click here to continue reading