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Medicare charges vary widely at California hospitals, new data show
Federal officials are shedding new light on how much hospital bills vary across Southern California and the rest of the country. Medicare released pricing information Wednesday for more than 3,300 U.S. hospitals on the top 100 procedures and...
Tags: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Gallbladder Removal, Medicare, St. John's Health Center, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Overselling Obamacare
WASHINGTON -- It's the great moral imperative behind the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"): People should not be denied health care because they can't afford insurance. Health status and insurance are assumed to be connected, and opponents have often been...
Tags: Medical Research, Finance, Heart Attack, Prescription Drugs, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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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: Prices, Health Insurance Cost, Health Insurance, Medicare, Consumers
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Aetna Beats Analysts' Expectations, Net Income Lower On Coventry Purchase
The Hartford CourantAetna beat analysts' expectations Tuesday, reporting strong operating income for the first three months of the year compared with 2012. Net income was lower, however, because of costs related to buying Coventry Health Care Inc. Aetna announced plans in...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform (2009), Dentistry and Dental Health, Government Health Care, Economy, Business and Finance
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The numbers behind the decline in workplace benefits
American employers are asking more from workers as they try to cut costs and become more productive to compete in a globalized world, as described in a Los Angeles Times Sunday story. But they’re also giving them much less. Everything from the...
Tags: Politics, Business Enterprises, Employment, Employment Opportunities, Health Insurance Cost
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READER SUBMITTED: Connecticut Health Council to Host 'The Politics of Health Policy' with Scott Rasmussen
HartfordThe Connecticut Health Council, an association of health sector leaders who work together to promote Connecticut as a premier center for the development of businesses, initiatives, and technology that improve health care and wellness both nationally and...Tags: The New York Times, Environmental Issues, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Downtown (Brooklyn, New York), Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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READER SUBMITTED: Trinity College To Host Conference On The Affordable Care Act
StatewideHaving introduced a master's degree program this academic year in health care policy, Trinity will host a major conference on April 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Mather Hall on The Affordable Care Act of 2010, colloquially known as Obamacare. A...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Education, Lawyers, Yale University, Jimmy Carter
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Latin America threatened by mounting cancer epidemic- study
Reuters* Healthcare access lagging, treatment costs rising * Both structural, short-term reforms needed By Asher Levine SAO PAULO, April 26 (Reuters) - Latin America's growing prosperity is fueling a cancer epidemic that threatens to overwhelm the region...Tags: Healthcare Access, Palliative Care, Medical Research, Politics, Epidemics and Plagues
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CareFirst proposes 25 percent rate increase under health care reform
Blaming the cost to implement health care reform, the state's largest health insurer has proposed eye-popping rate increases to state regulators for individuals and small businesses. CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield wants to raise rates an average of 25...
Tags: Politics, Heritage Foundation, Small Businesses, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform (2009)
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State's health workers deserve protection from violence
Workplace violence is a serious occupational hazard in hospitals and other health care facilities, a fact that has escaped an unsuspecting public. Nationally, nursing assistants employed by nursing homes have the highest incidence of workplace assault...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Social Sciences, Nursing Homes, Medical Specialization, Culture
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Officials: Democratic Sen. Baucus to retire
Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee who steered President Barack Obama's health care overhaul into law but recently broke with his party on gun control legislation, has decided to retire, Democratic...Tags: Parties and Movements, Politics, Laws, Finance, Tim Johnson
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Scott at odds with House, Senate
Gov. Rick Scott sent a message Tuesday to House Speaker Will Weatherford and Senate President Don Gaetz that his priorities need to get more attention. “I’m sure that the speaker of the house and the senate president would like to have a...Tags: Politics, Government, Don Gaetz, Rick Scott, Joe Negron
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