Researcher: Medicare Advantage Plans Costing Billions More Than They Should
Switching seniors to Medicare Advantage plans has cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars more than keeping them in original Medicare.
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How Billing Turns A Routine Birth Into A High-Cost Emergency
Over the past 20 years, hospitals and doctors have learned there’s great profit in upcoding visits.
Hospital ‘Trauma Centers’ Charge Enormous Fees To Treat Minor Injuries and Send People Home
Tens of thousands of times a year, hospitals charge enormously expensive trauma alert fees for injuries so minor the patient is never admitted.
Feds Want To Show Health Care Costs On Your Phone, But That Could Take Years
Federal officials are proposing new regulations that for the first time could allow patients to compare prices charged by various hospitals and other health care providers using data sent to their smartphones.
Financing Healthcare from Around the World
Think of a national Kaiser Permanente with a delightful foreign accent
May 21, 2009 -- Our healthcare system is morbidly obese. We outspend by at least two-to-one every other comparable country and still manage to underperform. The industry’s latest promise to trim an amount equal to less than 10% of current annual spending each year for the next ten years barely nudges that ratio. Our system serves as the world’s model for what not to do.
