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Senate confirms Tavenner to run health insurance programs with bigger budget than Pentagon
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — A former intensive care nurse with a businesslike approach to a politically divisive public policy area won Senate approval Wednesday to run Medicare and other major health insurance programs. By an overwhelming 91-7 vote, the...Tags: Insurance, National Government, Eric Cantor, Politics, Government
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Hospital revenues up, along with charity care
Hospitals in the region generally showed strengthened bottom lines in 2012, even as demand for charity care grew, a new report on the state of Pennsylvania's hospitals shows. Spending on charity and unpaid medical bills ticked up last year, but...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Breast Cancer, Allentown, Finance, Social Issues
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Obama's budget puts the onus on Ryan
WASHINGTON — When it comes to deficit reduction, President Barack Obama may have correctly taken the measure of Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and U.S. corporate leaders; that's a reason why any deficit deal is more remote than ever. Two and a...Tags: John Boehner, U.S. Senate, Politics, Bill Clinton, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
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High hospital bills go public, but will it help?
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, the government is publicly revealing how much hospitals charge, and the differences are astounding: Some bill tens of thousands of dollars more than others for the same treatment, even within the same city....
Tags: Insurance, Antitrust Issues, Washington, DC, Medical Procedures and Tests, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Entitlements' unimpeded growth is a benefit to seniors
WASHINGTON (AP) — With Congress increasingly unable to resolve budget disputes, federal programs on automatic pilot are consuming ever larger amounts of government resources. The trend helps older Americans, who receive the bulk of Social Security...
Tags: Head Start, Conservation, U.S. Senate, Environmental Issues, U.S. Congress
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Medicare cuts could impact Hampton Roads medical equipment suppliers
Some medical equipment companies in Hampton Roads may not be able to afford providing Medicare-covered supplies if Medicare rates drop in July, the Virginian-Pilot reported. Medicare payment rates in Hampton Roads are expected to drop an average of 41...
Tags: Hampton Roads, Government Health Care
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Letters to the Editor: Guns versus our freedom, immigration, quality care incentives
Guns versus our freedom The Second Amendment to the Constitution says, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."? We hear a lot about the...
Tags: Immigration, Politics, Civil Rights, Career and Workplace, Wars and Interventions
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Liz Dudek: AHCA's role in health facility oversight
Many Floridians are familiar with the Agency for Health Care Administration as the entity that runs the Florida Medicaid program. That is true, but we also have oversight of more than 45,000 health care facilities and providers, from acute care centers...Tags: Nursing Homes, Delray Beach, Health Insurance, Government Health Care, Medicaid
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A health plan prescribed by 'Doc' Bowen
Instead of Obamacare, still so contentious and with all the pieces not yet in place, we could have had Bowencare, with the key piece put in place on July 1, 1988, by Ronald Reagan. It would be named for Dr. Otis R. Bowen, about whom there were many...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Human Interest, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. Congress, Politics
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Charges by Peninsula hospitals vary widely
On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services landed a bombshell on the public with its release of FY 2011 numbers that revealed how much 3,000 hospitals around the country charged Medicare for the 100 most common in-patient procedures....
Tags: Riverside Regional Medical Center, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Media Industry, Bon Secours, Ceremonies
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Is $1,721.75 the bill you'd expect for treating a cut?
It was your basic, run-of-the-mill accident. Kim Haselhoff's 9-year-old son got nipped in the finger by one of the family dogs. It didn't seem too serious, but there was a bit of blood. Unfortunately, the pediatrician's office had just closed, and the...Tags: X-rays, Insurance, Tylenol (drug), Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Insurance Cost
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Hospital charges vary widely across region, nation
Making hospital charges more transparent, the federal government this week released data showing what medical centers across the country charge for treating 100 of the most common reasons patients get admitted. The charges vary dramatically —...
Tags: Ocoee, Diseases and Illnesses, Insurance, Orlando Health, COPD
May 15, 2013
|Story| AP Broadcast
May 14, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
May 14, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
May 14, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
May 13, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
May 13, 2013
|Story| Daily Press
May 13, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
May 13, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 12, 2013
|Column| South Bend Tribune
May 11, 2013
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
May 10, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
May 9, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
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