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Defaulted doctors: Hundreds fail to pay on loans
More than 300 health care providers who received Health Education Assistance Loans made no payments during 2008, despite having earned…
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Disparities in health care complex, hard to correct
Seven years after the landmark IOM study which established that racial minorities had worse health and were getting poorer care…
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Calif. reluctant to boost Medi-Cal’s anti-fraud staff
California Watch’s Christina Jewett reports on the California Assembly’s lukewarm response to the assertion of Medi-Cal’s fraud busters that, with…
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Homemade poisonous gas may endanger EMTs
The Tampa Tribune‘s Keith Morelli reports that homemade poisonous gases, which he says are growing in popularity among those who…
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Oransky: Find sources with outside perspective
AHCJ Treasurer Ivan Oransky, M.D., who’s also the executive editor of Reuters Health and a teacher at NYU, stopped by…
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Survey looks at use of leftover pain meds
One in five people in Utah have been prescribed pain medication in the past year, according to new figures from…
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Reporting on the business of health care
Covering the business of health care is a challenge, whether reporting on insurance companies, service providers, consumers, pharmaceutical companies or…
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Reporting on the business of health care: Resources
Covering the business of health care is a challenge, whether reporting on insurance companies, service providers, consumers, pharmaceutical companies or…
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Reporting on the business of health care: Glossary of terms
Covering the business of health care is a challenge, whether reporting on insurance companies, service providers, consumers, pharmaceutical companies or…
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New federal caregiver database full of holes
Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein are still working with databases of disciplined caregivers, this time exposing gaping holes in the…
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