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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: Prices, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, X-rays, Government Health Care, Health Insurance Cost
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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: Kathleen Sebelius, Orlando Health, Government Health Care, Health Insurance Cost, Orlando
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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: Health Treatments, Hospitals and Clinics, Prices, Private Health Care, 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: Healthcare Policies, Prices, Hospitals and Clinics, Pneumonia, Health Insurance
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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: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Allentown, Barack Obama, Finance, Government Health Care
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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 Policies, Hospitals and Clinics, Pneumonia, Government Health Care, 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: Marketing, Kathleen Sebelius, Phil McGraw, Government Health Care, University of Maryland Medical Center
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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 Medical Professionals, Politics, Health and Safety at School, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, University of 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: Princeton University, Hospitals and Clinics, Kathleen Sebelius, Heart Attack, Government Health Care
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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: Prices, Kathleen Sebelius, Barack Obama, Politics, Health and Safety at School
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Sanford Burnham picks 5 collaborators
With a focus on cancer, diabetes and obesity, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute at Lake Nona has picked the first five research groups that it will collaborate with to advance drug discoveries. The scientific teams will be part of the Florida...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Medical Research, Drugs and Medicines, Government Health Care, Education
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Child's play over the budget
WASHINGTON -- The budget feud on Capitol Hill is looking like those Vietnam War peace talks when negotiators bickered over the shape of the table. House Republicans, after howling for years about Senate Democrats' failure to pass a budget, are...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Rob Portman, Allergies, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Patty Murray
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