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Health Care Reform in the United States
Training Doctors to Speak the Language of the Law
Study examines how doctors and patients see health care
Doctors and patients agree on many of the key issues facing the future of health care, a study to be released today shows, but that's where much of the agreement ends.
Read the Article>Cutting healthcare cost with bundled payments proves difficult
Bundling payments to providers as a means to cut healthcare costs is proving harder to do than originally anticipated, according to a new study from non-profit research organization Rand Corp.
Read the Article>Doctor gaps in Texas persist despite Perry's stats
Visits to emergency rooms rise as insurance lost
New hospital data show an increase in emergency room visits, a jump physicians attribute to both a swelling of demand for services and improvements that allow emergency departments to treat patients faster.
Read the Article>How Doctors Could Rescue Health Care
Bureaucratic burden keeps California doctors from patient care
Providence, doctors join to study and improve care, cut costs
One of Southern California's largest hospital systems is teaming up with hundreds of doctors in a new alliance designed to better manage patient care, improve medical outcomes and reduce costs.
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