Hospital – Page 31 – Healthy Skeptic

Feb 26 2010

Bloomberg

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Don’t blame only insurers for rising health-care costs – California’s hospital fees surged 10.6 percent annually from 1999 to 2005 as the state’s biggest hospital networks began to demand higher rates

Feb 26 2010

Competition Leads to Lower Hospital Costs

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Research indicates that commercial health insurance, while it has geographic variation in spending, does not vary in the same way as Medicare. A primary factor explaining private health plan geographic…

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Feb 18 2010

New York Times

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An analysis written in The NEJM suggests that much of the Dartmouth Atlas is flawed and that it should not be used to compare the relative efficiency of hospitals

Feb 17 2010

thetimes-tribune.com

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Moses Taylor Hospital laid off 61 full-time employees – with the cuts at Moses Taylor, all three of Scranton’s hospitals have now had layoffs in the past 12 months.

Feb 11 2010

New York Times

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Five of the state’s largest private insurers plan to offer doctors and hospitals the ability to use a single Web portal to check a patient’s coverage and track claims

Feb 10 2010

New York Times

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LTC hospital report offers detailed descriptions of what inspectors have found to be a problem, ranging from minor violations, like poor record-keeping, to much more serious issues

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 08 2010

Bloomberg

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Insurers, drugmakers and hospitals will likely slash costs and merge companies to maneuver through a U.S. health-care landscape

Feb 04 2010

Reuters

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Spheris Inc, a provider of document services for hospitals, filed for bankruptcy – to sell its U.S. business to MedQuist Inc for $75.25 million, according to court documents.

Feb 02 2010

Bloomberg

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The nation’s largest publicly traded hospital chains are stalking medical centers that have been hurt by the cost of charity care and unpaid bills in a recession

Feb 01 2010

Wall Street Journal

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The nation’s largest hospital operator, will pay its private-equity owners a $1.75 billion dividend, believed to be among the biggest ever, after reporting stellar 2009 financial results

Feb 01 2010

Massachusetts Report on Provider Pricing Impact

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The Massachusetts Attorney General investigates and discovers that hospitals and some physicians have market power and consequently are able to demand high payments and those payments are the main cause…

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Jan 29 2010

Variations in Hospital Payments in One State

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Rhode Island released a report on payments to hospitals from various sources and looked at factors accounting for significant differences in payment levels. The variation is likely entirely due to…

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