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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By Carrie J. Sidener, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Jun. 23--A ride to the hospital in an ambulance in Bedford County is soon going to cost hundreds of dollars, but those who live or work in the city or county will never see a bill.
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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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The nonprofit company that runs the Prince George's hospital system has gone to court to pry loose public dollars that hospital officials say are needed to keep the system open.
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The NHS is still spending too much on costly stand-in nursing staff to cover absences, say MPs.
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Take a stand against the high costs of health care.
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Our position is: Expansion of government control isn&#39;t the answer to US health-care problems. Soaring health care costs are taking an ever-larger share out of employee paychecks and eating into employer profits.
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While EDS contractors are left with their feet up Vodafone's billing system continues to throw out random invoices, while denying customers access to their online billing.â¦
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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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Nonprofit hospitals routinely overcharge or deny care to patients least able to pay, Senate investigators have found, raising questions about whether the institutions should be eligible for tax exemptions that cost the U.S. Treasury billions of dollars a year.
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Hospitals accused of keeping thousands of seriously ill patients in 'holding patterns'
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I overheard a long-time hospital client talking to another support vendor today. The hospitalâs patient accounting department was attempting to send patient financial and billing data to a third-party biller. The vendorâs normal Web site was down, and they were trying to come up with an emergency fix.
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Because of a shortage of beds at Maryland psychiatric hospitals, a growing number of patients, including many who are involuntarily committed, are spending days in emergency rooms, often in violation of a state law that mandates that they be placed at a comprehensive care facility within 30 hours of...
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A hospital group is trying a radically new method to avoid costly mistakes, charging a flat fee that includes follow-up care.
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The ballooning cost of cancer treatment offers an example of how difficult it may be to rein in the nationâs runaway health care spending.
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In trying to explain the ever-rising cost of healthcare, we often fall back on easy answers: It's medical malpractice premiums, high administrative costs, excessive use of testing. Those things matter. But what matters most is progress. Technology gets better, science finds a way to deliver that technology to more people, and our bills go up.
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NEW YORK -- Susan Wezel had been committed to the city's hospital wards more than a dozen times in 10 years. Her psychosis was so deep and debilitating that she lost her career and her relationship with her son, as she refused to take her medication or follow treatment.