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More than $119M in ARRA funds awarded to combat chronic conditions

 Chelsey Ledue February 08, 2010
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $119 million to states and U.S. territories to combat chronic diseases and promote healthy lifestyles.
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Public health: flunking the test

 Effect Measure December 14, 2009
If swine flu is a test of public health, we've already flunked. And we have only ourselves - and the political leaders who have been disinvesting in public health since 1980 - to blame.
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Center for Connected Health chief calls for change in how doctors are paid

 Bernie Monegain October 22, 2009
Doctors must be paid on the basis of outcomes, not for how many services they provide - and patients, too, must be held accountable for their health, says Joseph Kvedar, MD.
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HHS grants $650M in Recovery Act funding for community prevention and wellness initiative

 Chelsey Ledue September 18, 2009
The Department of Health and Human Services has granted $650 million to an initiative that is working toward “creating ways for healthful lifestyle habits to be the natural first choice for Americans.”
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Health plans look to combat obesity

Patty Enrado August 31, 2009
According to a new study, obesity comprises 9.1 percent of all medical spending in the United States, up from 6.5 percent in 1998.
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CDC: Annual medical costs of obesity may be as high as $147B

 Chelsey Ledue July 28, 2009
Obesity may cost the United States as much as $147 billion annually, based on a new study from RTI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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White House meets with physicians to discuss prevention

 Diana Manos June 19, 2009
In an ongoing series of stakeholder health reform discussions, the White House hosted a panel of physicians Thursday to discuss the use of prevention and wellness initiatives for cutting healthcare costs and improving health.
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WellPoint: Advances in medical technology are primary driver of increased costs

 Chelsey Ledue May 27, 2009
According to a May 2009 WellPoint Institute of Healthcare Knowledge report, advances in medical technology may be the primary driver of increased costs, not insurer profits.
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Major Stakeholders in Health Reform Debate Call for Improvements in Scoring of Congressional Health Care Proposals

 Industry News Release April 22, 2009
More than 100 members of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD) - an organization representing some of the nation's biggest voices in health care - today called on leaders in Congress to encourage updates in the manner in which the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) produces estimates for the cost of legislative proposals in health care. Specifically, they called out limitations in the current methods that, once corrected, would more accurately recognize the value of health care efforts aimed at attacking a significant driver of health care costs: the unchecked growth in common and costly chronic diseases, and related problems such as obesity.
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NIH creates yearly 1.5M global health program to fight chronic diseases

 Chelsey Ledue July 29, 2008
Fogarty International Center, the global arm of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched a $1.5 million-a-year grant program to fund domestic and overseas training of researchers to fight...
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Payers remain reluctant to endorse bariatric surgery

 Patty Enrado July 23, 2008
TAMPA, FL – According to the Centers for Disease Control, an estimated $75 billion in direct medical expenditures was attributable to obesity in 2003, and annual hospital costs related to overwe...
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W. Va. health plan conducts BMI trainings

 Patty Enrado November 20, 2007
CHARLESTON, WV – Body mass index (BMI) trainings conducted in the three largest West Virginia cities were so successful that sponsor UniCare will expand the trainings to other regions in...
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U.S. Preventive Medicine targets chronic conditions

 Healthcare Finance News Staff October 24, 2007
DALLAS – The timing couldn’t be better. One day after U.S. Preventive Medicine announced its acquisition of Specialty Disease Management Services, Inc., a national provider of chr...
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U.S. Preventive buy of Specialty Disease Management comes at ideal time

 Healthcare Finance News Staff October 03, 2007
The timing couldn't be better. One day after U.S. Preventive Medicine announced its acquisition of Specialty Disease Management Services, Inc., the Milken Institute released...
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It's time to take a long view of health costs

 Fred Bazzoli January 25, 2007
Our family got a new car last summer. We really needed it, but it was more costly than we thought. So we’re figuring out ways to save money. If we just eliminate all those needless...
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