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What’s A Patient To Do When Hospital Ratings Disagree?

When you face a choice about hotels, restaurants or cars, the chances are you head to the Web for help. Online ratings have become essential tools for modern consumers. Health

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Hospitals, drug costs and technology will increase healthcare costs in 2015

Despite the focus on making healthcare more affordable, a new study suggests that the cost to treat patients could escalate starting in 2015. An estimated 6.8% rise in costs is

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Why you will pay more for health care

How much does the average Louisianan pay for health care? Too damn much. Roughly 17 percent of your income goes towards your health care, on average. Now research from Harvard

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Hospital Charges Surge for Common Ailments, Data Shows

Charges for some of the most common inpatient procedures surged at hospitals across the country in 2012 from a year earlier, some at more than four times the national rate

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The Hospital Steve Jobs Would Have Built

If the Apple Store opened a hospital it would look like the Walnut Hill Medical Center in Dallas. On Thursday the ribbon will be cut and the doors will open

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Provider prices drive up healthcare costs

Massachusetts has had the highest per capita health spending for more than a decade, and a new comprehensive report shows provider pricing has driven this disproportionate increase in costs. The

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North Carolina Hospital Closes, Citing No Medicaid Expansion

A small hospital in a coastal North Carolina community will close its doors within months and its parent company says Gov. Pat McCrory’s (R) decision not to expand Medicaid under

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Private insurers were charged more than Medicare rate, study shows

A new national study of medical claims data from 13 markets, including Buffalo, found hospitals and specialist physicians charged private insurers a price far higher than the Medicare rate. The

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Should rural hospitals close to save Medicare money?

Here’s a thought experiment on why it’s so hard to save money in Medicare: The Inspector General’s office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week issued

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