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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: Consumers, Insurance, Healthcare Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Government Health Care
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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: St. John's Health Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Medical Procedures and Tests, Gallbladder Removal, Government Health Care
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Immigrant healthcare bills stump House group
WASHINGTON -- Differences over whether immigrants should be deported for failing to have health insurance or pay their healthcare bills have stalled a bipartisan group of House lawmakers, who blew past a self-imposed Thursday deadline as they pressed...Tags: Vaccines, Luis Gutierrez, John Boehner, Raul Labrador, Crime, Law and Justice
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CoxHealth plans expansion in south Springfield
jjacob@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- CoxHealth plans to build a second tower at Cox South Hospital. The health care company announced the 310,000-square-foot expansion at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon. The cost of the expansion will be $130 million. ...Tags: General Practitioners, Politics, Family, Financial Markets, Government Health Care
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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: Phil McGraw, Executive Branch, Crime, Law and Justice, FTI Consulting Inc., Judges
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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: Social Sciences, Long Term Care, Crime, Law and Justice, AFL-CIO, Medical Specialization
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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: Executive Branch, Joe Negron, Government, Politics, Don Gaetz
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An Rx for the doctor shortage
New subsidies and insurance regulations in the 2010 healthcare law are expected to bring coverage to millions of uninsured Californians starting next year. The newly insured are likely to put a bigger strain on the healthcare system, particularly in their...
Tags: Vaccines, Prescription Drugs, General Practitioners, Healthcare Provider, Drugs and Medicines
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Immigration proposal could affect California health safety net
Making immigrants ineligible for public health benefits -- at least initially -- under proposed immigration law changes would push the costs of healthcare from the federal government to states and counties, said Sonal Ambegaokar, a health policy...
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Migration, Health Insurance, Government, Career and Workplace
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CalPERS panel recommends 3 new HMO plans alongside Blue Shield
A key committee of the California Public Employees' Retirement System backed its staff's recommendation to break up Blue Shield of California's statewide HMO contract. The agency's pension and health benefits committee voted Tuesday in favor of awarding...
Tags: General Motors Corp., California Public Employees' Retirement System, Government, Career and Workplace, Politics
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Obama's budget eyes health costs, cigarette tax
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's new budget offers Medicare cuts to entice Republicans into tax negotiations, while plowing ahead to cover the uninsured next year under the health care law the GOP has bitterly fought to repeal. But the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Prescription Drugs, Crime, Law and Justice, Nursing Homes, Politics
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Health care law to spur need for doctors
The estimated 29 million people who are required by federal law to buy health insurance next year will spark a demand for more physicians and other primary care providers in some parts of the nation that won't be met quickly, according to a new study....Tags: Northwestern University, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, General Practitioners, Medical Research, University of Chicago
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