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Feb 09 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Patients can and often do leave doctors they don’t see eye to eye with, find inconvenient or can’t afford. But doctors must follow strict ethical rules when they want to dismiss a patient.

Feb 09 2010

Wall Street Journal

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Spending by private insurers tends to be higher when the hospital market is less competitive, a new study finds.

Feb 09 2010

Wall Street Journal

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One way to avoid the emergency room: Don’t go near a hospital. At least that has been the approach of some investors with Congress looking unlikely to pass a health-care bill

Feb 09 2010

New York Times

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If the health care legislation cannot be revived the nation’s hospitals incur billions each year in medical bills that go unpaid by patients with little or no insurance

Feb 09 2010

Washington Post

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Leading House Republicans raised the prospect Monday night that they may decline to participate in President Obama’s proposed health-care summit

Feb 09 2010

New York Times

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Republicans take President up on his invitation to hash out their differences over health care – on display Feb. 25, when lawmakers from both parties go to Blair House

Feb 08 2010

DOTmed

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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has released detailed information on appropriations for the agency in the Obama Administration’s 2011 budget

Feb 08 2010

Medical ResearchViews

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PatientSafe Solutions secured a $30 million financing round led by TPG Biotech, with Camden Partners Holdings, LLC and Psilos Group Managers, LLC; Valhalla Capital, Menlo Ventures, Integral Capital Partners, American River Ventures and Shea Ventures LLC also participated in the round.

Feb 08 2010

Reuters

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Medicare’s move in 2005 to pay doctors to do bladder cancer surgery in their offices rather than in hospitals dramatically raised the number of procedures and overall health costs

Feb 08 2010

amednews.com

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President Obama’s $3.8 trillion fiscal 2011 budget request still would protect physicians from Medicare pay cuts

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