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Medicare wants limits for weight loss surgery
Medicare has announced it does not plan to cover weight-loss surgery in diabetic patients who are not dangerously...
Massachusetts healthcare system badly out of balance
According to data from the Boston Globe, Massachusetts health insurance companies pay a handful of hospitals far more...
Web Exclusive: Good Thing Hospitals Are Closing
This is what happens in a recession: We, as a country, retreat from our profligate ways and find new discipline that...
New Jersey eyes help for patients after medical errors
Hospital patients and the companies insuring them would no longer be on the hook to pay for care after a serious...
Medicare won’t pay for medical errors
Beginning today, Medicare will stop paying hospitals for the added cost of treating patients who are injured in their...
South Carolina Medicaid to quit paying for errors
South Carolina's Medicaid program plans to stop paying hospitals for medical errors they make. Representatives from the...
More states shred bills for awful medical errors
Hospitals in nearly half the states in the nation now say they won't bill patients for medical mistakes, including...
Mistakes to cost Illinois hospitals
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, the state’s largest health insurer, will no longer pay for claims when...
CMS releases 2009 IPPS final rule
CMS released its inpatient prospective payment system final rule for fiscal year 2009 on July 31, updating Medicare...
CIGNA to stop hospital reimbursements for medical mistakes
Health insurer Cigna Corp. has announced that as of Oct. 1, it will no longer reimburse hospitals for patient expenses...