Posts Tagged ‘business’
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 at 00:35 | Comments Off
A.M. Vitals: Standing for Plaintiff in Health-Law Suit May Be in QuestionCategories: Wall Street Journal
Health Suit Complication?: A small-business owner who is a key plaintiff in the 26-state suit against the Obama health-care law has closed her business and filed for bankruptcy, which may complicate her legal standing to be part of the suit, the WSJ reports. The suit relied in part on the financial burden the plaintiff, who owned an auto-repair shop, said she’d experience under the law starting in 2014, but experts say it will be harder for her ..read more
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Thursday, May 12th, 2011 at 22:31 | Comments Off A.M. Vitals: Health Insurers Diversify As Overhaul Trims MarginsCategories: Wall Street Journal, insurance
The Profit Motive: With the health-care overhaul law requiring insurers to spend more on medical care, companies are pushing into new lines of business in pursuit of profits, the WSJ reports. Aetna, Humana and WellPoint are looking at health-care IT, partnerships allowing them to employ physicians and participation in the accountable care organizations encouraged by the health law, the paper says.
Stem-Cell Finding: Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests the existence of lung stem ..read more
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011 at 01:28 | Comments Off Digesting Synthes May Not Be Easy for Johnson & JohnsonCategories: Wall Street Journal
Johnson & Johnson, which has grown into a health-care powerhouse by acquiring small firms, is no stranger to making deals. But it’s never done anything as big as the one announced today, for device-maker Synthes. That could make digesting the new business thorny, even for a company as adept as J&J.
The $21.3 billion takeover of the surgical-device maker will be J&J’s biggest, eclipsing its $16.6 billion purchase of Pfizer’s consumer business in 2006.
J&J likes to allow its acquisitions to operate ..read more
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at 00:07 | Comments Off A.M. Vitals: Secrecy in MedicareCategories: Wall Street JournalMedicare Investigation: The WSJ takes a look at a Florida doctor (dressed like a punk rocker) who took in $1.2 million from Medicare in 2008, much of it from a sophisticated form of physical therapy.
The doctor hasn’t been accused of wrongdoing. But last year he was placed on heightened watch and sold his business. But not until he got $2.6 million in payments between 2007 and 2009, according to a person familiar with the matter ..read more
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at 02:15 | Comments Off Retail Clinics: CVS to Double Presence, Walgreens Seeks PartnersCategories: Wall Street Journal
Drugstores are trying to bolster their presence in the in-store clinic market, even though the concept has thus far not been a particularly profitable one. The WSJ reports that CVS Caremark may double its number of MinuteClinic retail operations over the next five years.
The company has no plans to forge financial partnerships with medical providers, but instead prefers “collaborative” non-financial ties, MinuteClinic President Andrew Sussman tells the paper. Bloomberg quotes Gabelli analyst Jeff Jonas as saying that CVS has trimmed ..read more
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 at 23:53 | Comments Off Meet the New Health BloggerCategories: Wall Street JournalStarting today, you’ll see a new byline on the Health Blog. I’ve long been a fan of The Wall Street Journal’s health and health-business coverage, and I’m looking forward to being a part of it by continuing the strong three-year tradition of this blog. Whether delivering the latest breaking news, bringing you expert insights or digging up tidbits you won’t find anywhere else, the goal is to keep the Health Blog your first and most trusted source of health-related news. ..read more
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 at 09:16 | Comments Off Business Rallies Against Health Overhaul as Obama Signs BillCategories: Wall Street Journal
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce plans to spend $50 million in the months leading up to the fall elections in a continuing push against the health-overhaul legislation, the WSJ reports.
“The Chamber is going to carry a message across the country that says the health care debate is not over,” Thomas J. Donohue, the business lobbying group’s president and CEO, said in a letter sent to the chamber’s board members late Monday. The law “is a major step in the wrong ..read more
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010 at 03:49 | Comments Off Obama’s Closing Arguments on Health CareCategories: Wall Street Journal, health
President Barack Obama makes a final pitch on health-care legislation in a televised address at George Mason University. Video courtesy of Fox Business Network.
Original post: Obama’s Closing Arguments on Health Care/a>
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at 04:20 | Comments Off Obama Speaks About Health Care in OhioCategories: Wall Street Journal, health
Watch video of President Barack Obama’s health-care reform speech delivered Monday in Ohio. Video courtesy of Fox Business Network.
Read more from the original source: Obama Speaks About Health Care in Ohio/a>
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010 at 10:34 | Comments Off Outlook: The Week Ahead in U.S. NewsCategories: Wall Street Journal
MarketWatch’s Stacey Delo has a preview of what will figure into the business and financial headlines in the coming week.
See the original post here: Outlook: The Week Ahead in U.S. News/a>
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