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In Small California Hospitals, the Marketing of Back Surgery
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The inflated costs for spinal surgeries at some hospitals in California. How surgeons, doctors, consultants, distributors and hospitals operated in a flawed system to make revenue gains through overbilling, and focus on increasing the number of surgeries performed.
Examples of why U.S. healthcare costs defy solution- spine surgery in California (1)
02/09/2012
Billing at inflated prices and performing more surgeries than needed- doctors, surgeons, consultants, distributors and hospitals working in a flawed system.
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Small Slice of Doctors Account for Big Chunk of Medicare Costs
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In Small California Hospitals, the Marketing of Back Surgery
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Americans worry, cheer as Congress moves to upend the Affordable Care Act
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Developing new solutions to the problem of escalating health care costs in the U.S.
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New solutions are being developed and new ideas being tried to bring down health care costs. In many case quality can improve at lower cost or the similiar results delivered for lower cost with some other advantages inpatient focussed healthcare that improve outcomes. Pricing of pharmaceutical products and healthcare services as the major unsolved problem in the U.S.
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Economy Led to Cuts in Use of Health Care, Study Says
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Digital Records May Not Cut Health Costs, Study Cautions
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Health Care: Obama's Budget Skimps on Cost-Cutting
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Hospitals Merge Design and Building to Cut Costs
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Health care reform suffers from a huge gap with no change to the "fee -for-service" system used by physicians.
10/15/2009
With over one third of the cost of medical expenditures coming from doctors and hospitals, the complete absence of an effort to base care on quality, medical necessity and results, leaves the reform on shaky grounds.
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Patients’ Costs Skyrocket; Specialists’ Incomes Soar
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Health 'Debate' Deserves a Failing Grade
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Finding the Nerve to Cut Health Costs
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President Obama writes a new health reform prescription
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Health-care bill wouldn't bring real reform
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Rising pension and health care costs for U.S. cities in 2011-12
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Pension Pinch Busts City Budgets
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Illinois Pension Fix Faces Political Test
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Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future
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Pension Issues Spice Dinner Debates
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Medicare and medical device makers.
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Medical Device Makers Face Health-Care Reform Pressures
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In Small California Hospitals, the Marketing of Back Surgery
Wall Street Journal 02/09/2012
Failure to control overbilling by pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment and device makers in the health reform bill.
12/10/2009
Only $10 million annual increase to control fraud has been allocated in the bill. Its not likely to do much to control the overbilling and may be one more reason the health care reform bill will be a failure in controlling costs. Pricing of pharmaceutical products and healthcare services as the major unsolved problem in the U.S.
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How the Senate bill would contain the cost of health care : The New Yorker
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In Battle Over Health Law, Math Cuts Both Ways
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House Approves Health Law Repeal
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A grim diagnosis for our ailing U.S. health care system - The Washington Post
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The sweeping restructuring of U.S. health care that is needed and the way patients, doctors, and hospitals would rather live with the status quo.
01/31/2008
The risks of "cosmetic" reform in the Obama administration's efforts, and the unsustainability of the current system in the costs and results it provides.
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Bayonne Medical Center Has Highest U.S. Billing Rates
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Patients’ Costs Skyrocket; Specialists’ Incomes Soar
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Something’s Got to Give in Medicare Spending
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Robert J. Samuelson - Wrong Way on Health 'Reform'
Washington Post 06/15/2009
Obama's Health Plan Needs Spending Controls, CBO Says
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Paying for universal health coverage in the U.S.
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The Obama administration estimates it will cost about $120 billion to cover roughly 50 million uninsured. Everything from taxing high calorie sodas, limiting tax dedcuctions for charitable giving, or decuctions for employer provided health insurance, are all being looked at Some like limiting deductions on chartable giving lack support in Congress.
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Recession Swells Number of Uninsured to 50.7 Million
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Exchanges See Little Progress on Uninsured
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Wal-Mart Cuts Prices for Many Generic Drugs to $4 - WSJ.com
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A J&J Copycat Could Extend Old Drug's Life - WSJ.com
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As Patients, Doctors Feel Pinch, Insurer's CEO Makes a Billion - WSJ.com
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Medicare fraud and waste- 2011-2015
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Bayonne Medical Center Has Highest U.S. Billing Rates
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Small Group of Doctors Are Biggest Medicare Billers
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Medicare-Fraud Crackdown Corrals 114
Wall Street Journal 02/18/2011
Bills Push Medicare Data Access
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Medicare Records Reveal Troubling Trail of Surgeries
Wall Street Journal 03/29/2011
Cost Savings of Genentech's Avastin Gets Closer Look
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