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UnitedHealthcare Launches New Online Medical Pricing Program
The Hartford CourantUnitedHealthcare launched a newer online program that allows 14 million of its members to compare current prices of medical services, including how much a patient will pay out of pocket. The program is specialized to show how much the insurer would pay,...Tags: Marketing, Oxford (New Haven, Connecticut), Cigna Corporation, Medical Procedures and Tests, Insurance
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Companies, interests, spend $127 million to lobby lawmakers
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — They are waging multi-year campaigns to build billion-dollar casinos, get their tax bills reduced, break into the renewable energy business, and fight over the right of injured parties to sue. They are the more than 2,500 utilities, ... -
Rick Scott’s consultants reeling in big checks from RPOF
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — The political pollsters, consultants, and direct-mail gurus that entered Rick Scott's campaign orbit last year are reaping the biggest payouts from Republican Party of Florida coffers this year. The party's second-quarter report... -
Former Petoskey resident promoted at Tenet Healthcare
Tenet Healthcare Corp. recently announced that Jeffrey Koury, a veteran executive with the company, has been appointed senior vice president of operations for Tenet’s California region. Koury, a 1978 graduate of Petoskey High School, recently...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Health, High School Sports, Hospitals and Clinics, University of Michigan
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Health care prices can double from one South Florida hospital to the next
Need your appendix out? Go to JFK Medical Center in Atlantis and the bill is $65,500, on average. But at West Boca Medical Center, it's $27,500.
Got pneumonia? Recuperate at Florida Medical Center in Lauderdale Lakes and the bill is $41,200. But at...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Florida Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, Healthcare Provider, Medical Services
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Community Health ups the ante
HealthThe battle between Community Health Systems and Tenet Healthcare Corp. remains on full boil. Community Health, the parent company of Easton Hospital, changed its hostile offer for Tenet to an all-cash deal, even as Community Health confronts a nasty... -
Community Health bid for Tenet ends
HealthCommunity Health Systems Inc., the corporate parent of Easton Hospital, has ended its bid to buy Tenet Healthcare Corp. The $7.3 billion bid would have created the nation's largest hospital company, according to a Bloomberg account of the proposed deal.... -
Same date in history, two major market turning points
Money & CompanyToday is October 9, a date of particular significance to Wall Street in this decade. On Oct. 9, 2002, the devastating dot-com-led bear market that began in 2000 finally bottomed, as measured by major indexes including the Standard & Poor???s...... -
Temp firms a magnet for unfit nurses
Firms that supply temporary nurses to the nation's hospitals are taking perilous shortcuts in their screening and supervision, sometimes putting seriously ill patients in the hands of incompetent or impaired caregivers.
Emboldened by a chronic nursing...Tags: Santa Rosa, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Diseases and Illnesses, Crimes
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Workers at USC University Hospital to vote on whether to organize
L.A. NOWCulminating a fierce election battle, about 700 workers at USC University Hospital in Los Angeles are scheduled to vote this week on whether to join a new union in a bitter campaign that has highlighted a deep rift in the...... -
Jeb Bush: 'Wizard of Oz'
The Swampby Mark Silva Jeb Bush is having his best legislative session ever. Wait a minute. Bush, son of one former president and younger brother of another, hasn't been governor of Florida since 2006. Yet our old friends in the city......Tags: Government, Local Elections, Fox Broadcasting Company, Republican Party, Miami Beach
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USC Center Is Latest With Transplant Woes
Times Staff WritersThe liver transplant program at USC University Hospital in Los Angeles has one of the highest death rates in the nation, with twice as many patients as expected dying after their surgeries, according to data released this week. The most recent statistics...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Medical Research, Basketball, Johns Hopkins Hospital, University of Southern California
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