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2:31 PM EDT 4/6/2011
Medical Errors Are Still Common, but Hospitals Feel Better About ThemHospital executives and staff believe they're making progress on patient safety, but other surveys indicate otherwise. The culture of denial may be one reason why patient safety has not significantly improved.
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12:38 PM EDT 3/29/2011
Yes, Consumer-Driven Health Plans Are a Crock -- but They're Here to StayA new RAND study establishes what everyone suspected: People with high-deductible insurance plans -- you know, those so-called "consumer-directed" plans designed to reduce healthcare spending by making patients more "cost conscious" -- tend to skimp on even necessary medical services. This unsurp...
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3:40 PM EDT 3/28/2011
Hospitals Have a Field Day Charging High Rates at Urgent Care CentersPartly because of a Medicare rule change, many hospitals are opening urgent-care centers around the country. Some of these centers are charged uninsured patients as much as ERs do, and they're getting away with it.
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11:44 AM EDT 3/28/2011
Antitrust Enforcement in Healthcare? What's That?The Justice Department is investigating anticompetitive behavior by hospital chains and insurers -- but it wouldn't have to if it had enforced the antitrust laws previously.
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2:31 PM EDT 3/24/2011
Healthcare Reform: What If ACOs Turn Out to Be a Money Pit?The fundamental premise of the accountable care organization (ACO) is that it gives doctors and hospitals a way to work together to lower medical costs without compromising the quality of patient care. But it's not an uncontroversial idea: Some experts believe ACOs simply won't work, and few doctors...
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7:45 AM EDT 3/23/2011
Time to Nationalize Medicaid Before States Reach the Breaking PointEven as states race to pay their Medicaid bills before federal bonus subsidies expire, it's clear that catastrophe lies ahead. To avert that disaster for patients and providers, the feds should take over Medicaid.
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6:43 PM EDT 3/22/2011
A Year Later, Second-Guessing Healthcare Reform Has Become a Bipartisan PastimeA year after the passage of healthcare reform, observers on both sides of the aisle are second-guessing it. But in the long run, it will still most likely transform U.S. healthcare.
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1:49 PM EDT 3/21/2011
Hospitals' Latest Money-Making Idea: Helping People Sleep BetterHospitals are making the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders into a revenue stream, joining sleep centers and drug companies that have turned sleep deprivation into a $20B business.
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2:44 PM EDT 3/18/2011
Healthcare Reform Barrier: When the ER Doesn't Talk to Your DoctorPrimary care doctors and emergency room doctors don't communicate well, and that's going to be a big problem in 2014, when 32 million additional people -- many of them ER regulars -- get insured.
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7:06 PM EDT 3/17/2011
Don't Look Now, but State Health-Insurance Exchanges Are Gathering SteamSome states are starting to work together to build health-insurance exchanges, while others are tucking their Medicaid systems into the exchanges. This momentum may be hard to stop.
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