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Is $1,721.75 the bill you'd expect for treating a cut?
It was your basic, run-of-the-mill accident. Kim Haselhoff's 9-year-old son got nipped in the finger by one of the family dogs. It didn't seem too serious, but there was a bit of blood. Unfortunately, the pediatrician's office had just closed, and the...Tags: Insurance, Prices, Medical Procedures and Tests, Tylenol (drug), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Hospital charges vary widely across region, nation
Making hospital charges more transparent, the federal government this week released data showing what medical centers across the country charge for treating 100 of the most common reasons patients get admitted. The charges vary dramatically —...
Tags: Insurance, Medical Procedures and Tests, Consumers, Orlando, COPD
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Comparing healthcare prices
With increasingly wide-ranging costs for medical procedures, here are some resources to help you find and understand medical prices. • Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Data base shows charges for the 100 most common hospital-based...Tags: Insurance, Prices, Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, Government Health Care
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Hospital prices diverge wildly, U.S. data show
New Medicare data reveal wildly varying charges among the nation's hospitals for 100 of the most common in-patient treatments and procedures, calling into question medical billing practices just as U.S. officials try to rein in rising costs. The...
Tags: Personal Income, Insurance, Health Insurance, Prices, Pneumonia
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Medicare a 'sacrificial lamb' for budget cutters
It is said that the true measure of a society is reflected in how well it treats its elderly population. If so, this country is in a severe downward spiral. While the realization that we have been spending well beyond our means has finally registered with...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Allentown, Barack Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Finance
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California calls for more disclosure of medical costs [video chat]
California officials are looking to build on a federal effort to disclose more healthcare pricing information to consumers. Medicare officials released new data this week that showed wildly different hospital charges across the nation for 100 of the...
Tags: Healthcare Laws, Insurance, Pneumonia, Healthcare Policies, Consumers
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Hospital rates vary significantly, Medicare data show
Johns Hopkins Hospital charged $13,667 on average to treat one admission of a Medicare patient with diabetes in 2011, while a couple of miles away Mercy Medical Center billed an average of $8,425. The University of Maryland Medical Center charged $9,045...
Tags: FTI Consulting Inc., Insurance, Diabetes, Phil McGraw, Urinary Tract Infection
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Interests of candidate, supporter and spouse align
WASHINGTON — An issue at the top of U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz's legislative agenda is also of foremost concern to her biggest campaign contributor: the University of Pennsylvania, where her husband is a doctor. Schwartz, a suburban Philadelphia...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Elections, General Practitioners, Health and Medical Professionals, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Hospital charges vary widely across Lehigh Valley region, country
It's only about 33 miles from Gnaden Huetten Memorial Hospital in Lehighton to Lehigh Valley Hospital's Muhlenberg campus in Bethlehem, but the distance between what the two facilities charge to treat a complicated heart attack case is far greater....
Tags: Insurance, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Heart Attack, Princeton University, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Hospital fees vary for same treatment, U.S. data show
Centegra Hospital in McHenry charged $36,000 for implanting a permanent pacemaker. Less than 30 miles away, Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan charged more than $165,000 for the same procedure. To treat a case of simple pneumonia, meanwhile, John H....
Tags: Insurance, Cardiologists, Health and Safety at School, Prices, Pneumonia
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Hospitals' Prices Vary Widely For Same Procedures
The Hartford CourantThe price of major joint-replacement surgery, without serious complications, is nearly three times more at Greenwich Hospital than at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington. It's $72,393 in Greenwich and $23,063 in Torrington, on average. At...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Economy, Business and Finance, Apples, Insurance, Middletown
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U.S. House set to pass tactical Republican debt bill
Reuters* White House has said it will veto bill * House Republicans are mulling debt ceiling strategy * Bill would allow U.S. Treasury to borrow more funds By Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) - U.S. House Republicans are expected to pass a...Tags: Albert Tom, Government Debt, Social Security, Economy, Business and Finance, Public Finance
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