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Healthcare blame game: What hospitals charge vs. what they get paid
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the prices hospitals charge for the 100 most common inpatient procedures. The idea is to provide more information to the public about how much hospitals charge and to highlight...
It's one of those unhappy holiday surprises - a visiting family member gets sick. That happened to Dr. Farzad Mostashari last Thanksgiving. "My dad comes downstairs and he has acute pain in his eye where he had cataract surgery. And I said, 'What's the matter, what's the...
The results, revealed in a poll by the Royal College of General Practitioners, indicate the extremity of the problems now facing general practice. The poll also shows that 48 percent of family doctors think...
Screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea infections using urine testing alone would have missed more than three-fourths of infections in a population of gay youth, a study has found. "Urine screening alone is not a reliable proxy for all sites for gonorrhea and chlamydia infections...
Workplace wellness programs seem poised for takeoff, and yet there are still many questions about whether they can truly improve patients' health and if they will do enough to include physicians as partners, or just add to the ever-growing administrative burden. The programs...
In today's landscape of increased costs and decreased revenues, incorporating a physician assistant into an orthopedic practice can take many shapes. Interestingly, over the years the one thing I have come to believe is that there is...
Here’s one question that keeps health policy works up at night: As millions of Americans gain health insurance coverage over the next decade, who will see them? It may well not be a doctor: The Association of American Medical...
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