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health care cost
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Seattle hospitals love building costly ERs
The Puget Sound emergency room construction boom is in full swing, and Seattle Times reporter Carol Ostrom has taken a…
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Rising medical debt spawns problems, fosters solutions
Kelley Weiss, of the California HealthCare Foundation’s Center for Health Reporting, dug deep into the rising mountain of medical debt…
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Dartmouth Atlas report shows little improvement in readmissions
In the National Journal, Maggie Fox explains a new Dartmouth Atlas Project report (PDF) which demonstrates that, despite the looming…
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Uninsured face delays, increased risks en route to long-term care
Writing for Heart & Soul, Yanick Rice Lamb offers up a comprehensive take on the special challenges patients and hospitals…
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Report: Calif. hospital chain profited from ER admissions
After months of investigation and updates, California Watch reporters Christina Jewett and Stephen K. Doig have unleashed their full report…
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Report explains doctors’ reluctance to adopt EMRs
Writing for the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News, Susan Jaffe spent time in the trenches to better understand how…
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Potential changes in regulation of medical devices would likely impact health care costs
As the medical device industry ramps up its campaign against further government regulation, Merrill Goozner takes stock of the regulatory…
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HHS unveils ‘National Prevention Strategy’
Today, in a live webinar and a companion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Department of Health…
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House calls on the rise as their economic benefits become clear
In The Miami Herald, Ana Veciana-Suarez looks into why doctor house calls are on the rise, especially among the Medicare…
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Covering Health Issues 6.0, coming soon to a mailbox near you*
*Assuming you’re an AHCJ member. If you aren’t a member, then keep in mind that a free copy of each…