Inquiry Set on Health Care Billing
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New Yorkâs attorney general is looking into whether insurers overcharged patients for out-of-network doctors.
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A Congressional committee investigating the Lipitor advertising campaign wants information about payments to people who might have served as stunt doubles for Dr. Robert Jarvik in televised ads.
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The American Medical Association wants authorities to investigate whether quickie retail-based health clinics run by pharmacy chains pose conflicts of interest that put profits ahead of patient health.
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Patients who want to see a GP in the evening should face a charge, some family doctors say.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is working with federal investigators to examine whether Yale-New Haven Hospital and other nonprofit hospitals in Connecticut are overcharging government agencies for medical supplies.
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Massachusetts consumers soon will have access to information long kept confidential by the healthcare industry: The prices individual hospitals are paid by insurers for performing specific procedures - data state officials hope will encourage comparison shopping and reduce medical costs.
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Auditors will be sent to investigate techniques used by states to shift hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid costs to the U.S. government.
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EDMONTON - Auditor General Fred Dunn fears health-care fraud and identity theft are occurring because the Alberta government has failed to properly keep track of more than two million duplicate or replacement health-care cards.
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HAMILTON, Mont. -- Sen. Conrad Burns gazed at a debate audience and asked if anyone could guess who was blocking efforts in Washington to control health-care costs.
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The Federal Government appears set to change its policy over compensation for people who contracted hepatitis C through the blood supply.
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CONCORD, NH -- Federal health officials posed several questions to the state Thursday about proposed Medicaid changes. Health authorities want to know how the state would set limits on care, how it would decide
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As the Federal Trade Commission wraps up its antitrust review of Inova's purchase of Prince William Hospital -- and Inova's near-monopoly on hospital services in Northern Virginia -- it might consider Request No. VA-7343, filed this year with the Virginia health commissioner.
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Leading doctors ask for an independent inquiry into the quality of care of severely injured patients.
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Health-care initiatives aimed at federal retirees and employees are under consideration in Congress and in the Bush administration.
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By Tatiana Prophet, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Feb. 14--Fo r 1 1 c i t i e s i n S a n Bernardino County, the prospect of paying a surcharge for a chemical that did not originate in their areas just doesn't seem right.
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Federal health officials said on Thursday that they would investigate reports of price gouging for flu shots in response to a severe national shortage of the influenza vaccine.
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The commission investigating problems in health care for wounded military personnel focused on problems with moving patients through various stages of aid to home care and jobs.