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NJ hospital bills highest in nation
23 hours ago ago from www.medicalcostadvocate.com
New Jersey leads the country with the highest charges for healthcare services. According to the below article, charges by hospitals in New Jersey are four times higher than the actual cost. This a serious matter and New Jersey hospitals are not alone in the practice of raising and inflating charges way beyond the actual cost. This is a dirty little secret practiced by all hospitals. Read the examples in the article and take warning; if you ...
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41 minutes ago ago from ApexMD's Blog
ApexMD Launches the First Website To Allow Disease-Specific Search and Recommendations of Physicians for Rare Conditions and Specific Medical Procedures December 14, 2009 San Mateo, Calif. December 14, 2009 – ApexMD , a free search engine for finding and recommending specialist physicians, introduced today a sophisticated search and recommendation tool for finding physicians at top US medical centers. ApexMD is dedicated to improving the ...
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14 hours ago ago from CK Healthcare
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9 hours ago ago from Cempaka Health and Welfare
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10 hours ago ago from Healthcare IT Consultant Blog
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D. Brad Wright: Just Plain Tired: The Professor's Tale
7 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The following narrative is based largely on a series of emails I received from my dear friend Prof. Frank Harrison, III. Since the time this piece was written, Frank has also undergone a successful coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and is slowly but surely recovering. My best efforts at getting this piece published as a commentary in a variety of different journals met with no success. Consequently, I thought I'd put it up on the ...
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21 hours ago ago from The New York Times
The New Orleans district attorney has requested an autopsy on a terminally ill patient whose doctor acknowledged increasing the drugs the patient received in the wake of Hurricane Katrina , the city's coroner said. The disclosure came after a state judge last week ordered the district attorney, Leon Cannizzaro Jr., either to confirm he was investigating the deaths of patients at Memorial Medical Center or to state that no investigation was ...
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20 hours ago ago from The New York Times
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