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Hackers Steal Info For 4.5 Million Hospital Patients
(MeneerDijk)The new week begins much like the previous week ended – with news of another massive data breach. The latest hack victims are the millions of patients of Community Health Systems, which...
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Hospital Teams With Bank To Offer Interest-Free Loans So Patients Can Pay...
(MeneerDijk)Health care, especially of the emergency kind, has been known to leave consumers with hefty bills and few options expect to go into debt. But now some health systems are finding ways to...
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Patient Faces Bankruptcy After Ambulance Takes Her To Out-Of-Network Hospital
Most of us know that it could cost us everything we own if we go to a hospital that isn’t covered by our insurance plan. But what if you’re unconscious and have no say in the matter? That’s the case...
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New Rules Change The Way Non-Profit Hospitals Handle Low-Income Patients’ Debts
(frankieleon) While some hospitals work to assist patients in paying their unexpected and often expensive medical bills, other institutions have been known to employ aggressive tactics that harshly...
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Yelp Adds Hospital Wait Times, Nursing Home Fine Info To Reviews
When a trip to the emergency room is in order, you’re usually in a hurry, because, after all, it’s an emergency. Sitting around waiting to be seen by a doctor can be an agonizing experience for those...
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Patients At NYC Hospitals Will No Longer Become Accidental Reality TV Stars
We don’t know about you, but the last thing we want when we go to the hospital is for anyone — not even our loved ones — to shoot video of us. We certainly wouldn’t want to find out that we’re being...
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Doctors Not Happy After Drug Goes From $13.50/Tablet To $750 Overnight
Gripe as we might, consumers understand that price increases do happen. What’s not as easily understood is how the price for something can go from $13.50 one day to $750 the next — especially when it’s...
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Hospital Doesn’t Know The Difference Between Copay And Deductible, Sticks...
When a California man checked with the hospital about the copay for his daughter’s treatment, the hospital told him it would $500. Except what they meant to tell him was that his insurance deductible...
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Now You Can Take Your Kids To The “Krispy Kreme Challenge” Clinic
While hospital naming rights have long been up for grabs to big donors, it’s not every day that a healthcare facility is branded with the name of a product that most people associate with being...
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Senate Investigating Drug Companies Behind Huge Overnight Price Hikes
A handful of pharmaceutical investors have been snapping up the rights to previously affordable prescription drugs, only to immediately raise prices to the point where patients now pay hundreds of...
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Study: Colorado Tourists Going To The ER With Pot Complaints More Than Residents
It’s probably no surprise that now that marijuana is legal in Colorado, tourists are trying it out. However, doctors say they were somewhat surprised by the results of a study which found that...
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FBI Investigating Virus That Took Major Hospital Chain Offline
Earlier today, healthcare provider MedStar Health, which operates nearly a dozen hospitals in the D.C. area and some 100 clinics, took its network offline after detecting the presence of a computer...
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Nonprofit Hospitals Suing Poor Patients Without Telling Them They Qualify For...
Given that nonprofit hospitals are tax-exempt, the general view is that their primary focus should be on providing care for those who need it rather than making using the court system to make those...
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In Most States, No Regulator Cares If A Merger Closes Your Local Hospitals
The consolidation of, well, everything in healthcare is kind of par for the course these days, really. Insurance companies, provider networks, and hospitals are constantly merging or buying each other...
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CDC Reports “Worrisome” News On Antibiotic Use In Hospitals
The overuse of antibiotics in human patients and farm animals has been linked to the development of so-called “superbugs” that are resistant to most traditional antibiotics. In a new report, the...
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Why Would A Hospital Charge You For Holding Your Newborn Baby?
Though there are many kinds of surprises you might find on your bill after a trip to the hospital, some seem too strange to be true. For example, a new father in Utah who was amused to find a charge...
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Hospital, Doctors Groups Say They Can’t Support Current Obamacare Replacement...
People are still dissecting and deciding where they come down in response to the recently proposed legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Yesterday, two of the largest groups in the...
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How To Protect Yourself From A Hospital Data Breach
This article was originally published by Consumer Reports. You may never have considered whether your preferred hospital is one of the approximately 311 major teaching hospitals in the U.S., but...
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What You Should Know About America’s High Rate Of Maternal Mortality
When you think about fatalities during childbirth, your mind may immediately leap to infant deaths. But although it’s much safer to give birth in America now than say, 100 years ago, women are dying...
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Google Wiping Private Medical Records From Search Results
If the thought of a stranger accessing your medical history online gives you the creeps, you’re not alone: In an effort to tamp down on the spread of such private information, Google has started wiping...
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