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ProPublica investigates pharma payments to doctors
ProPublica’s massive investigation into the hefty fees pharmaceutical companies have paid doctors with dubious track records stamps an exclamation point…
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Understanding the administrative side of implementation
Coverage of health care reform implementation has generally focused on the issues and effects of the roll-out, rather than the…
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Trade group says conflicts negate GPOs’ leverage
A recent GAO report looked at group purchasing organizations and established that they were pervasive, and that they’d adopted some…
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Innovative approaches to malpractice, errors
American Medical News reporter Kevin O’Reilly writes about a presentation by David Mayer, M.D., University of Illinois at Chicago Institute…
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Medicare competitive bidding ramps up
The California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting and the San Bernardino County (Calif.) Sun teamed up for a package…
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Is America’s high health spending linked to short lifespans?
The United States lags behind other developed nations in life expectancy, yet spends far more on health care than any…
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Report cards and rankings for 227 HMOs
The National Committee for Quality Assurance, a nonprofit health plan accreditation organization, has unleashed its annual ranking of private health…
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A new wave of hospital consolidation looms
Nationally, the hospital consolidation craze has leveled off since its 2006 peak, but Kaiser Health News senior correspondent Julie Appleby,…
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Mass. reform, cost-cutting crush safety net hospital
Boston Medical Center has been pushed to the financial brink by a mix of politics, economics and expanded health coverage.…
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HHS publishes insurance prices, Consumer Reports explains reform
The first big wave of health care reform implementation has brought with it a mini-boom in consumer-oriented explainer sites and…