Hospital Charity Care Is Probed
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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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A hospital under scrutiny about patient safety admits care failures after the deaths of two elderly women.
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Imagine making an emergency call not for help getting to the hospital but after you've already arrived there. That's what Ray Clement and his wife did last year at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Shadyside Hospital, where he had gone with a suspected blood clot. When Clement thought...
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The results of an official inquiry into the alleged failings of the Welsh Ambulance Service are due.
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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 BBC has learnt of serious incidents at a major Welsh hospital, with worries about patient safety.
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Concern is raised about a new service brought in to provide medical cover outside surgery hours.
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LOS ANGELES -- The orthopedic department at the troubled King/Drew Medical Center in South Los Angeles is the latest target of a county investigation.
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An inquiry into the way sex abuse in the Catholic Church is tackled finds progress has been made.
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Trading standards officers are to check weighing equipment at hospitals across the UK because of concerns over accuracy, the BBC has learned.
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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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The cause of a mystery illness which killed a bank worker after she cut her foot in India is under investigation.
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An investigation focused on Medicaid fraud has also shed light on outdated oversight policies that experts said have allowed the home health care industry to escape adequate scrutiny.
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Hospitals hit back at claims of poor hygiene standards highlighted in a TV documentary.
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The Health Protection Agency, together with colleagues in the NHS and local authorities, has been carrying out an investigation into a national outbreak of salmonella.
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Hospitals are being told to standardise patients' wristbands to cut out errors in care.
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A survey of hospital review boards that watchdog experiments on patients shows that one in three members takes money from companies that make drugs and medical devices that come under study.