Old Hospital Cases Raise Rates Slightly
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Infant mortality rates in the District have been adjusted upward after the discovery that some hospitals failed to document newborn deaths for several consecutive years.
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Pepco announced yesterday that it plans to increase residential rates for electricity in the District by an average of about 18 percent beginning Feb. 8. An average residential customer&#39;s payment
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The estimated number of influenza-associated hospitalizations among elderly patients has increased substantially during the past 20 years, a US study found.
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A retired hospital administrator and instructor, she has spent the past few months getting seniors up to speed on the federal program&#39;s discount drugs cards, available this and next year before
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When the doors of a health center in Loudoun County opened for the first time yesterday, offering many uninsured residents their first medical home, it was in part because of a small, now-defunct hospital in Alexandria and a complex court case dating back a dozen years.
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The number of people hospitalized in the United States because of the flu has climbed over the past 20 years to an average of more than 200,000 a year, in large part because of the aging of the population, a government study found.
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Shrinking budgets and escalating costs this year exacerbated many of the county&#39;s health- care problems, which included the first human case of West Nile virus and the fact that prescription medications are increasingly expensive for many seniors.
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Mortgage rates inched up last week, but they remained well below the year-high levels set during the spring. Freddie Mac, in its weekly survey released Thursday, reported that rates on 30-year
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Health care costs grew faster than the overall economy in the first half of this year, according to a study released Thursday. Although the increase
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Healthcare costs in employer-sponsored plans are expected to rise an average of 8 percent in 2005, the first time the increase has sunk to single digits in the last five years, a new survey said.
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* Increases of 6 to 7 percent in premiums -- and more in small firms.
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Medicare patients&#39; monthly premiums for outpatient care will jump a record $11.60 next year, while deductibles for hospitalized patients will rise $36, the biggest jump in 14 years.
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Health-care costs are expected to rise more than 11 percent for US employers in 2005, the fifth consecutive year of double-digit increases, and little relief is expected in the next five years
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even at some of the most reputable hospitals in the nation -- does not necessarily translate into longer life or better health and may in fact leave patients
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Revenue growth at Massachusetts hospitals did not keep pace with the increase in expenses during the 2006 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, according to an analysis by the Massachusetts Hospital Association. Expenses grew 8.7 percent, compared with 8.6 percent growth the year before. Revenues grew 8.4 percent. Also, 40 percent of hospitals had lower profit last year, the association ...
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The number of patients who use hospital A&E departments when they do not need to is reviewed.
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Annual increases in health insurance premiums have slowed, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research Educational Trust survey, averaging 6.1 percent this year compared with 7.7 percent in 2006. These slower increases reflect several profitable years for the insurance industry,...