Hospital Billing Never Ends
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Unpredictable hospital billing can lead to financial anxiety about the prospect of dealing with insurance companies even before a surgery has happened.
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An inner-city hospital struggled to survive Wednesday amid a new report of breakdowns in patient care, the replacement of its chief medical officer and an ultimatum to correct long-running problems or close.
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Sometimes it takes one doctor's persistence to help a desperate patient find relief.
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One in eight hospital patients are waiting for over a year, government figures show.
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More must be done to ensure patients do not stay in hospital longer than needed, a report finds.
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Nearly one in four consumers has had a legitimate claim denied by a health insurer. In the new consumer health feature Empowered Patient, CNN's Elizabeth Cohen shares advice on what to do when your insurance company says "no."
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They call them "frequent fliers" at Children's Hospital: families with children so sick they've spent weeks, even months, at the medical center. They've come for complicated treatments: chemo for cancer, heart surgery, kidney transplants. The list goes on.
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Patients in accident and emergency units are still failing to treat people quickly enough, according to the latest figures.
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Our health care system is a frustrating mix of routine miracles and scandalous failures. The miracles abound; Bill Clintonâs recent open-heart surgery was cutting-edge a few decades ago.
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Patients are not receiving the best service from GPs despite their pay improving, an assembly report finds.
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Annual charges are typical and sometimes hard to stop.
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A chill is in the air for hospitals accustomed to having insurers pay ever higher prices for hospital services. That era appears to be ending.
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How to keep that paid-for ride going.
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As doctors voiced anger at an Annapolis rally yesterday over escalating insurance costs, legislative leaders said they remain far from a consensus on how to address the problem before Maryland physicians&#39; bills come due next month.
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HALIFAX (CP) - Nova Scotia taxpayers are on the hook for $642,000 charged to an American patient who spent 183 days in a Halifax hospital before dying without paying.
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Take a stand against the high costs of health care.
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Patients who want to see a GP in the evening should face a charge, some family doctors say.