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- Hospital wins battle but fight goes on
- Fee cut improved care study finds
- Broward hospital starts cord-blood drive
- DOH: Closing TB hospital costs $$
- Pain-clinic law draws complaints
- Pacemaker firm to pay $9.2M
- Arrested doctor apparently was addicted
- Insurance chiefs vote against industry
- Nurses doctors at odds on politics
- New concept to counter HMOs?
- Hospital chain paid kickbacks: suit
| Hospital wins battle but fight goes on Posted: Palm Beach Post Bethesda Memorial Hospital is building a $130 million satellite hospital in Palm Beach County after a seven-year legal fight with its competitors. But those rivals aren't giving up in the battle to attract patients. |
| Fee cut improved care study finds Posted: © Los Angeles Times A national study of prostate-cancer care showed that when doctors' fees were cut for hormone treatment, they stopped giving it to patients who didn't benefit while continuing it for those who needed it. The study's co-author is at University of Florida. |
| Broward hospital starts cord-blood drive Posted: 11/5/2010 © South Florida Sun-Sentinel Memorial Hospital West is collecting unused stored cord blood from childbirth so it can be offered to patients with blood diseases. Here's how to donate. |
| DOH: Closing TB hospital costs $$ Posted: By Jim Saunders 11/3/2010 © Health News Florida Florida lawmakers have talked for years about shutting down the only state hospital for stubborn tuberculosis cases. But a new state report asks: Would other hospitals take those contagious patients? At what cost? |
| Pain-clinic law draws complaints Posted: 11/2/2010 © South Florida Sun-Sentinel Tammy Cummings, who now has to see her doctor and be examined every month to get her pain-pill prescription renewed, says the state crackdown needs tweaking to prevent inconvenience to legitimate patients and waste of Medicare funds. |
| Posted: 11/2/2010 © Miami Herald A Miami whistleblower charged that Ela Medical paid kickbacks to doctors in a varieties of ways; in return, the doctors ordered tests that led to sales of more equipment. |
| Arrested doctor apparently was addicted Posted: 11/2/2010 © Palm Beach Post Dermatologist Heather Houck came under investigation when two pharmacists reported that she filled dozens of prescriptions for narcotic painkillers in the names of non-existent patients. |
| Insurance chiefs vote against industry Posted: By Jim Saunders and Julie Appleby 10/21/2010 Health News Florida and Kaiser Health News The nation's insurance commissioners, meeting in Orlando, today adopted recommended rules on how much of the premium insurers must spend on patients. They shot down pro-industry amendments, including one from Florida's Kevin McCarty. |
| Nurses doctors at odds on politics Posted: By Jim Saunders and Carol Gentry 10/13/2010 © Health News Florida Anyone who hasn't noticed the big difference between the world views of doctors and nurses could catch on just by looking at their endorsements in the Florida governor's race. |
| Posted: By Jim Saunders, Phil Galewitz and Jenny Gold Health News Florida and Kaiser Health News Faced with a likely expansion of Medicaid HMOs, the Florida Medical Association is looking at a new possibility to give doctors more control over patient care: "accountable care organizations." |
| Hospital chain paid kickbacks: suit Posted: By Mike Wells 8/10/2010 © Health News Florida Health Management Associates, a hospital chain based in Naples, offered doctors money, free rent, and even jet trips to a golf tournament in return for referring Medicare patients, a former HMA executive says. Editor's note: corrections added. |
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