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Top Stories | Friday, May 09, 2008 |  |
Wednesday, May 07, 2008Identity thieves prey on patients' medical records | ||
Doctors' offices, clinics and hospitals are a fruitful hunting ground for identity thieves, who are using increasingly sophisticated methods to steal patient information, lawyers and privacy experts say. | ||
Monday, May 05, 2008Wife dies but new hospital bills keep coming | ||
During the final two months of Melanie Smailus' life, she battled the leukemia ravaging her body. | ||
Tuesday, April 29, 2008Bill bans medical test markups | ||
The Missouri Senate passed legislation yesterday that would ban the practice of marking up procedures used to screen patients for signs of cancer. | ||
Tuesday, April 29, 2008Health insurance for Amy, Beth and Cindy | ||
Amy carries the BRCA1 gene, which is associated with an elevated risk of breast cancer. Beth has an aunt and a sister who had breast cancer. Five years ago, Cindy had breast cancer, which is now in remission. What these three women have in common is a much higher risk than the average woman of one day developing breast cancer. Should a health insurer be allowed to charge them higher premiums, or deny them coverage altogether, as a result? | ||
Wednesday, April 16, 2008Cut your Health Care Expenses Before You Get The Bills | ||
Shocked at the sticker price on your health care bills? You’re not alone. Health care costs are on the rise and consumers are searching for ways heal their wallets. Here are 5 easy tips to help you lower your medical costs. | ||
Thursday, April 10, 2008Wilmington family close to losing everything | ||
A Wilmington family is on the brink of losing everything. Four family members were injured in a recent auto accident and the woman who caused the wreck didn't have enough insurance to cover the family's medical bills. | ||
Friday, April 04, 2008Insurer to no longer pay for medical errors | ||
To give hospitals an incentive to avoid some of the most egregious medical errors, Missouri's largest insurer no longer will pay for certain mistakes, including when a surgery is performed on a wrong body part or patient. | ||
Monday, March 31, 2008Finding a cure for the cost of care | ||
John Flaherty didn't go to the emergency room, even though he knew he'd separated his shoulder. | ||
Saturday, March 29, 2008Gov't Launches Hospital Comparisons Site | ||
Federal health officials released the latest version of a web site Friday that lets the public compare about 2,500 hospitals on some measures of quality.
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Friday, March 28, 2008Hospitals won't bill for mistakes | ||
Delaware hospitals have agreed not to charge patients or their insurance companies for nine serious medical mistakes, such as operating on the wrong body part, leaving a sponge in a surgical patient, or making medication errors that cause death or serious injury. | ||
Thursday, March 27, 2008How To Handle Medical Emergencies On The Road | ||
You’re in an out-of-the-way corner of Japan, enjoying a mid-morning ride on a cheaply purchased mountain bike, viewing a landscape that only so many places can offer. | ||
Thursday, March 27, 2008Managing care the right way | ||
MANAGED CARE got a bad reputation in the 1990s. At its best, though, this method of organizing healthcare saves money while enhancing the quality of patients' lives. In Massachusetts, the Commonwealth Care Alliance, which bills itself as a nonprofit care delivery system, is succeeding in its five-year-old experiment on whether treatment can be coordinated and improved for people with complicated medical histories. | ||
Monday, January 14, 20088 most common hospital billing errors | ||
Make no mistake about it: Making sure that all the charges on your hospital bill are justified and reasonable is a formidable undertaking. But it can be easier if you know what to look for. | ||
Monday, January 14, 2008Podcast - Americans Paying for Medical Billing Errors | ||
The high cost of health care in America may be even higher than you think. Day to Day personal finance contributor Michelle Singletary speaks with Alex Chadwick about medical billing errors, and what consumers can do to make sure that they're not paying for those mistakes. | ||
Friday, January 11, 2008Preparation for appointments can pay off | ||
With anxiety about health problems weighing on patients' minds, the doctor's office waiting room can be a tough place to pass the time productively. Many patients in a holding pattern turn to escapist reading. But by using the time to list their symptoms and questions, they can better position themselves to get the most out of their doctor's expertise, experts say | ||
Wednesday, January 09, 200810 ways to avoid hospital overcharges | ||
American hospitals are fleecing patients out of billions of dollars annually, and experts say that while some of the overcharges are honest errors, many are deliberate. | ||
Today's Better Health Tip | |
TIP: Take an active role in your health care | |
Keep a complete and up-to-date medical record. Share your medical record information with everyone involved in your care. Inform your health care providers about your treatment preferences. Participate in treatment decisions. Complete a Health care Proxy Form to help your caregivers with vital medical decisions. [A Health care Proxy is a standard legal document that specifies the person who is allowed to make decisions about your medical treatment and can provide instructions about requesting or stopping treatment. You do not need a lawyer to complete a Health care Proxy.] | |
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