Tag: healthcare
member name: Deb S.
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April 28, 2008 08:03 AM EDT --
This is from a digest I get about health policy. Just one of the many concerns all consumers of healthcare should all have:
In a front-page story, the Wall Street Journal (4/28, A1, . . .
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May 01, 2008 07:10 AM EDT --
This is a follow-up to the article about hospitals asking for payment up front from patients. It is taken from he same American College of Physician Executive Digest
On its website, the . . .
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September 15, 2008 04:35 PM EDT --
FromCNN
September 15,2008
Anyone planning to retire before they are eligible for Medicare (assuming Medicare is not eliminated by the next administration) should start making those plans years . . .
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June 25, 2008 10:40 AM EDT --
June 25, 2008 On Wal-Mart's Web site, you can buy a walker for $59.92. It is called the Carex Explorer, and it's a typical walker: a few feet high, with . . .
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June 30, 2008 08:53 AM EDT --
About 100 Californians a month are being harmed in adverse events considered preventable. A lawmaker proposes banning reimbursements to hospitals for some types of injuries.
By Jordan Rau
Los . . .
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July 29, 2008 08:18 AM EDT --
This appeared in the New York Times today (7/29)
According to New York Times Well columnist Tara Parker-Pope, data from a Johns Hopkins study published this year in the journal Medicine . . .
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May 13, 2009 06:34 PM EDT --
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ’s board of directors, scolded journalists for not mentioning that Lewin Group, the consultants who released a recent . . .
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June 14, 2009 12:54 PM EDT --
June 1, 2009
It is spring in McAllen, Texas. The morning sun is warm. The streets are lined with palm trees and pickup trucks. McAllen is in Hidalgo County, which has the lowest household income . . .
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July 13, 2009 08:23 AM EDT --
From ACPE Digest The Washington Post (7/13, Alcindor) reports, "Hospital emergency departments across the region are overflowing with patients who have been battered by the recession . . .
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August 27, 2009 02:14 PM EDT --
Read best-selling author Jacqueline Winspear's take on the British National Health Service .
Apparently many Brits are so upset with the criticism of their system by Americans that thousands have been . . .
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July 30, 2008 09:13 AM EDT --
A nonprofit Web site from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) called Lab Tests Online http://labtestsonline.org offers patients easy access to detailed but consumer-friendly . . .
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August 26, 2008 01:40 PM EDT --
Sign In and Pay Now
<cite>South Florida Sun-Sentinel</cite>
August 26, 2008
Patients who need medical procedures are accustomed to following a familiar pattern: Talk to a doctor, . . .
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June 30, 2009 07:22 AM EDT --
From ACPE Digest:
On the front page of its Health section, the Washington Post /Kaiser Health News (6/30, HE1, Kenen) reports that patients who "leave the hospital, only to boomerang . . .
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August 03, 2009 09:11 PM EDT --
A father and son interview explains how McAllen, a small town in Texas could become the center of the healthcare reform controversy. A month or so ago, Dr. Gawande wrote an op ed piece in the New Yorker . . .
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December 30, 2008 03:28 PM EST --
from Washington Post
December 30, 2008
Dolly Sweet, 77, has battled cancer more than once. She's a fighter. But when
her doctor recently prescribed a medication that cost $35,000 . . .
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April 13, 2009 07:17 AM EDT --
From ACPE DIGEST:
According to the Wall Street Journal (4/13, A6, Johnson, Evans) employment in healthcare "is succumbing to the recession." For example, the New York City Health . . .
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October 01, 2008 09:17 AM EDT --
In a front-page story, the New York Times (10/1, A1, Sack) reports thattoday, "Medicare will" stop "paying hospitals for the added cost of treating patients who are injured in their . . .
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November 04, 2008 08:20 AM EST --
The New York Times (11/4, A14, Pear) reports, "A federal court has blocked the Bush administration's effort to save money on Medicare by paying for only the least expensive . . .
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November 21, 2008 05:25 PM EST --
CNN
November 21, 2008
Variations of two deadly superbugs that had previously only been discovered in the United States have surfaced in South America.
The drug-resistant microorganisms . . .
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January 30, 2009 11:31 AM EST --
The New York Times (1/30, Barrow) reports, "Hospital patients are
rarely able to identify their doctors by name or to describe
their roles in the patients' care," . . .
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