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Healthcare for Angelina Jolie -- and everyone else [Blowback]
We applaud Times columnist Robin Abcarian for shining the light on the inequities in our healthcare system in response to Angelina Jolie’s recent announcement about her prophylactic mastectomy. When Jolie made her medical decision, she had at her...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Angelina Jolie, Health and Medical Professionals, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues
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Senate approves Obama choice to head Medicare
WASHINGTON – In an unusual break in the partisan warring over healthcare, the Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Obama's choice to oversee the mammoth Medicare and Medicaid health programs. Marilyn Tavenner, a former hospital executive and...
Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Health Insurance, Medicaid, Eric Cantor
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Cedars-Sinai stands out for steep pricing
When Medicare disclosed average charges from thousands of U.S. hospitals for 100 common procedures last week, only one hospital was near the top in every category: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Be it a cardiac stent, a hip replacement or a...
Tags: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, Medicaid, Employment Opportunities
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Is $1,721.75 the bill you'd expect for treating a cut?
It was your basic, run-of-the-mill accident. Kim Haselhoff's 9-year-old son got nipped in the finger by one of the family dogs. It didn't seem too serious, but there was a bit of blood. Unfortunately, the pediatrician's office had just closed, and the...
Tags: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Medical Procedures and Tests, Bankruptcy, Health Insurance Cost, Hospitals and Clinics
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California calls for more disclosure of medical costs [video chat]
California officials are looking to build on a federal effort to disclose more healthcare pricing information to consumers. Medicare officials released new data this week that showed wildly different hospital charges across the nation for 100 of the...
Tags: Healthcare Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Hospitals and Clinics, Healthcare Policies, Insurance
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Medicare charges vary widely at California hospitals, new data show
Federal officials are shedding new light on how much hospital bills vary across Southern California and the rest of the country. Medicare released pricing information Wednesday for more than 3,300 U.S. hospitals on the top 100 procedures and...
Tags: St. Joseph Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, Gallbladder Removal
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The wrong way for Washington to avoid defaulting
It's rare that the president explicitly pledges to veto a bill -- usually, the White House says the president's advisors would "recommend" a veto -- but that's what happened Tuesday. The measure in question is HR 807, the Full Faith and Credit Act, by...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, George W. Bush, White House
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Comparing healthcare prices
With increasingly wide-ranging costs for medical procedures, here are some resources to help you find and understand medical prices. • Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Data base shows charges for the 100 most common hospital-based...Tags: Health Treatments, Medical Procedures and Tests, Private Health Care, Hospitals and Clinics, Insurance
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Hospital prices diverge wildly, U.S. data show
New Medicare data reveal wildly varying charges among the nation's hospitals for 100 of the most common in-patient treatments and procedures, calling into question medical billing practices just as U.S. officials try to rein in rising costs. The...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Personal Income, Health Insurance, Health Insurance Cost, Hospitals and Clinics
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Workers fired from Nevada hospital accused of 'patient dumping'
Two employees have been fired and three others disciplined at a Las Vegas hospital accused of "patient dumping" -- sending mentally ill patients to other states, including California. The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Starbucks Corp., Chemical Industry, Hospitals and Clinics, Brian Sandoval
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Strategies for cutting the cost of prescription drugs
When Maggie Heim had a recurrence of ovarian cancer about a year after her initial treatment, her oncologist suggested that she take what he believed could be a lifesaving drug. There was just one problem: Her insurer wouldn't pay for it. The 59-year-...
Tags: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Plavix (drug), Herceptin (drug), Bevacizumab (drug), Oncology
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Feds take action over alleged patient dumping at Nevada hospital
SAN FRANCISCO -- Following state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg's call for an investigation, federal authorities have taken disciplinary action against a Nevada hospital in an alleged case of "patient dumping" in California. In a letter...
Tags: Politics, Darrell Steinberg, Hospitals and Clinics, Brian Sandoval, Schizophrenia
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