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California Hospital Comes Under Fire For Revealing A Patient's Medical...
An LA Times column just blew the lid off a California hospital's seemingly blatant disregard for patient privacy. Michael Hiltzik reports that Prime Healthcare Services and executives from Shasta...
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Drowning In Medical Debt? Filing For Bankruptcy Could Be Your Life Raft
Today's issue of The Record tells the story of Frances Giordano, a 58-year-old diagnosed with lung cancer last year. After losing her job in December—days after completing a round of chemotherapy, no...
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Here's A New Headache For Medicare Patients To Deal With
Some Medicare patients who stay in the hospital for a couple of days may get hit with higher bills than expected, The Wall Street Journal's Anna Wilde Mathews reports. That's because hospitals have...
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One Simple Reason Why Health Care Costs More In The US Than Anywhere Else
Americans are feeling the pinch of rising health care costs more than any other nation in the world. A huge reason why is simply that America lets providers set prices. The Washington Post's Ezra...
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Medical Billing In America Makes Absolutely No Sense
[This post by Mike Kimel was published at Angry Bear Blog.] Steve Lopez at the LA Times reports on the bizarre world of the bizarre calculus of emergency room charges: Debbie Cassettari had...
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STUDY: Appendectomies May No Longer Be Necessary
A new study from Queens' Medical Centre in Nottingham, England has found antibiotics to be as effective in treating appendicitis as appendectomies, the BBC reports. Drugs were found to be an...
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Alzheimer's Patient Awarded $34 Million After Getting Dropped By Her...
An elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer's has been awarded $34 million for being ditched by her insurance, reports Billings Gazette's Clair Johnson. In 1997, Arlene Hull bought a long-term care...
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By Going Green, This Hospital Could Put More Green In Patient's Wallets
Eco-friendly and penny-smart usually go hand-in-hand. And as Wisconsin's Gundersen Health System is learning, being the nation's first energy-independent hospital by 2014 won't just help the planet—it...
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A US Hospital Billed This Student $143K For Treating His Snake Bite
Norway is abuzz over an outrageous bill by an American hospital, which was reportedly the highest his insurance had ever seen. Dag-Are Trydal, a Norwegian foreign exchange student, got bit by a...
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This Woman's A Shining Example Of Consumers Fighting Back Bogus Hospital Charges
An Arizona woman has won a two-year battle against a hospital that charged her $900 for the birth of her newborn daughter. The infant, Kaylee, died just moments afterward. She was 12 weeks premature....
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A Proposed Hospital Merger Could Create One Of The Biggest Healthcare Systems...
Things may be getting serious for two New York City health systems. NYU Langone Medical Center and Continuum Health Partners could soon merge into a behemoth health care system, according to The New...
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More Americans Are Turning To Health Co-ops To Lower Their Costs
As the cost of health care continues to rise, health care co-ops are becoming the go-to choice for people who can't afford to take the traditional route for medical needs. Self-employed consultant,...
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Your Hospital Isn't Nearly As Safe As You Think It Is
As consumers, we spend so much time searching for errors in the digits and dollar signs on our hospital bills that it's easy to forget some of the worst damage can happen before we even leave the...
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Romney Is Dead Wrong That People Don't Die Because They Don't Have Insurance
In an interview with the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio published Thursday, Mitt Romney repeated a claim that already got him in trouble once this cycle and reflects an enduring belief among Republicans:...
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7 Eye-Popping Details From The TIME Cover Story On Health Care Costs
In a new Time Magazine cover story, reporter Steven Brill writes a rather lengthy piece about the huge problem with health care costs in the United States.The piece, titled "Bitter Pill: Why Medical...
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There's A $250,000 Wild Card To Consider When You Plan For Retirement
Healthcare expenses are the largest financial wildcard of later-life retirement spending. We simply don't know how much we may need to spend. On average, a 65-year-old couple will face out-of-pocket...
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Study Reveals Shocking Inconsistencies In Health Care Pricing Around America
A pacemaker implant that might cost a patient $36,012 in one hospital, might cost $143,124 down the road at a different hospital. This shocking reality of America's hospital billing system comes from a...
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There's Finally An Easy Way To Stop Getting Ripped Off At The Hospital
When the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services went public with the first-ever comprehensive data on disparities in hospital billing last week, we knew it would be a game-changer.First of...
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Why Hospital CEOs Make So Much Money
Can you tell how good a job hospital CEOs are doing by the amount they are paid? A study by investigators at the Harvard School of Public Health this week suggests that the answer is no.Published in...
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This $55,000 Bill Is The Perfect Example Of Our Broken Hospital System
"I never truly understood how much healthcare in the US costs until I got appendicitis in October," wrote Reddit user zcypher, identifying himself as "a 20 year old guy."He posted the hospital bill to...
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