Study: Docs who own facilities treat patients differently
August 23, 2010 by Carol Katarsky
Whether or not you need knee surgery may depend on if your surgeon has an ownership stake in the local surgical center.
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Whether or not you need knee surgery may depend on if your surgeon has an ownership stake in the local surgical center.
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Tension in Utah over a proposed immigration law may have led to a gigantic misuse of resident’s medical information.
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The feds are investigating whether two Dallas hospitals committed fraud in billing for procedures performed by their residents.
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It’s not news that cancer costs have increased dramatically in the past 20 years. But who’s paying more — and why — might surprise you.
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President Obama has ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to issue new rules that would grant more rights to same-sex partners when one is hospitalized.
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Largely unnoticed in the run-up to the recent passage of the health reform law, President Obama also has his sights on improving programs focused on disease prevention and general wellness.
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All the alarms in the world can’t protect a patient in crisis if the people monitoring those alarms ignore or turn them off. That’s the hard lesson recently learned at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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The newly passed health care law is generally seen as a boon to patients and most providers. But how individual states will fare is much less clear.
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The health care reform bill finally passed, and while no one may be completely happy with it, it brings some definite good news for the industry.
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Expect to see hospitals paying more settlements for false claims now that the health care reform law is on the books.
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