Our Healthcare Hot Topics of the Week

Life is hectic, we know, so here’s a recap of the Healthcare Weekly Hot Topics you can’t afford to miss:

1)  10 States do not require background checks for home healthcare workers
Washington Times, June 1, 2014

2)  Lung, Ovarian and leukemia cancers easier to treat due to new drugs
Yahoo News, May 31, 2014

3)  Medicare releases hospital charge information to further transparency
NY Times, June 2, 2014

4)  Cheaper, similar eye drops could save Medicare billions
USA Today, June 2, 2014

5)  Apple releases health app
Bloomberg, June 2, 2014

6)  Hospitals gaming Medicare system through timing of readmissions
Washington Times, June 4, 2014

7)  Hospitals seeing less uninsured patients due to ObamaCare
Huffington Post, June 4, 2014

8)  HHS Secretary Burwell confirmed
Reuters, June 4, 2014

9)  Insurers to use Amazon for reporting to government under ObamaCare
CNBC, June 4, 2014

10)  Medical Mobile Apps largely unregulated
Reuters, June 5, 2014

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