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The Houston Chronicle’s Jenny Deam delved into emergency room billing – hospital facility fees as well as “upcoding,” which means…
Elizabeth Piatt begins the narrative of her reluctant journey into the Medicaid dental care system this way: “In the spring…
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Using community health workers to work with frequent emergency room visitors is showing some success in reducing ER use. The…
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The Puget Sound emergency room construction boom is in full swing, and Seattle Times reporter Carol Ostrom has taken a…
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It took eight years, a whistleblower and intervention from a state commissioner to uncover a fatal medical error in a…
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Edward Hospital in Naperville, Ill., has taken the art of making ER wait times available to prospective patients to the…
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Writing for HealthLeaders Media, Cheryl Clark looked at the growing number of hospitals that are posting their emergency room wait…
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has sifted through the numbers in the 2006 report “Sports Injuries in Children…
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Maryn McKenna writes in Annals of Emergency Medicine that the impressive recent success of rotavirus and pneumococcus vaccines has caused…