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Erie clinic offers discounted hearing aids
Erie Times-News, Pa.Hearing aids can be so expensive that seniors on a fixed income are sometimes reluctant to buy them. If health insurance doesn't cover the device's cost, a person can pay more than $2,000 for a popular model. "I've had patients tell me they can't...Tags: Insurance, Health Insurance Cost, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Medicare
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EDITORIAL: Making sense of it
The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IowaWe've long advocated that health care reform in this country must include a major effort to curb health care cost increases, which have outpaced that of virtually every other vital service or product. But we see no clear way of doing so as long as there...Tags: Medicaid, Heart Failure, Consumer Confidence, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Consumers
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Let's make a deal
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewHARRISBURG The stage is set in June for a potential deal: House Republicans pass a transportation funding bill most don't want and the Senate holds its nose and approves a limited liquor privatization bill. Well, maybe. Republican Gov. Tom Corbett...Tags: Medicaid, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Republican Party, Mike Turzai
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Charity's investment a prescription for profits for drug maker
Milwaukee Journal SentinelWhat happens when a disease-fighting charity dives into venture capitalism? In the first case of its kind, the results include one of the planet's most expensive pills, huge sales projections for a drug company and windfalls for executives who sold...Tags: Politics, Newspaper and Magazine, Prices, Trials, Johns Hopkins University
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Hospitals face anxious period on Medicaid
Richmond Times-DispatchVirginia hospitals face an anxious summer and fall as state lawmakers begin to take a hard look at reforming -- and potentially expanding -- the state's Medicaid program for the poor, elderly and disabled. Next month, a new legislative commission will...Tags: Medicaid, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Poverty, Hospitals and Clinics, Bob McDonnell
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Hospital charges vary by location
The Hutchinson News, Kan.If you looked into the data on hospital charges released last week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, you may have needed treatment for sticker shock. Charges ranged widely and without...Tags: Medicaid, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Prices, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Pulling back the curtain on hospital pricing
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.It was a kidney stone smaller than a nickel that showed Jennifer Clark how giant the disparities are in the health care industry. Clark, who lives in Fort Oglethorpe, first went to an emergency room in March for a pain in her left side that the mother...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Politics, Healthcare Industry, Prices
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Belleville Memorial Hospital takes on nation's largest insurer
St. Louis Post-DispatchBelleville Memorial Hospital and UnitedHealthcare are moving toward a showdown next month over hospital and physician reimbursement rates. If an agreement cannot be struck, Memorial and its physicians group will no longer be in the network of the...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Collective Contract, Politics, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, Human Interest
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Conflict-ridden session could lead to more Nixon vetoes
St. Louis Post-DispatchGov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, likes to portray his relationship with the Republican-dominated Legislature as one where they work toward common goals. But Friday's conclusion of the Legislature's four-and-a-half month session magnified their differences...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Republican Party, Abortion Issue, Barack Obama
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Minnesota House approves $11.3 billion health and human services bill
St. Paul Pioneer PressThe House voted Friday night, May 17, to pass a health and human services bill that accounts for nearly one-third of the state's general fund -- a big step in getting budget work done prior to adjournment of the Legislature on Monday night. The...Tags: Medicaid, Politics, Long Term Care, Republican Party, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
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Healthcare for Angelina Jolie -- and everyone else [Blowback]
We applaud Times columnist Robin Abcarian for shining the light on the inequities in our healthcare system in response to Angelina Jolie’s recent announcement about her prophylactic mastectomy. When Jolie made her medical decision, she had at her...Tags: Breast Cancer, Angelina Jolie, Plastic Surgeons, U.S. Supreme Court, Insurance
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Pharmaceutical manufacturer in India to pay Ohio $3.8 million
Norwalk Reflector, OhioOhio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that Ohio has joined with other states and the federal government in a $500 million dollar settlement to resolve civil and criminal allegations against a pharmaceutical manufacturer in India. Investigators...Tags: Arts and Culture, Medicaid, Science and Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry
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