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On CNN’s Health page, Jim Kavanagh profiled Dr. Doug Lefton, a man who has gone from newspaper reporter to physician…
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At a time when overall prescription drug use is climbing across the board, the AHRQ reports that the number of…
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California hospitals, especially those in the Bay Area, seem to be able to set prices with impunity, a fact we…
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It hasn’t had quite as much impact as some earlier health-related recession trend stories, but the rise in prescription abandonment…
A recent GAO report looked at group purchasing organizations and established that they were pervasive, and that they’d adopted some…
The California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting and the San Bernardino County (Calif.) Sun teamed up for a package…
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Group purchasing organizations are intermediaries which theoretically group hospitals together to give them more leverage in purchasing negotiations. In 2009,…
As part of his series on rural health, the Wisconsin State Journal‘s David Wahlberg traveled down to Appalachian Kentucky to…
The New York Times‘ Kevin Sack reports on a Health Affairs study that explores “acute medical care,” particularly initial visits…
In her blog on CJR.org, AHCJ Immediate Past President Trudy Lieberman updates what is becoming an annual franchise: Her summer…