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A new initiative by the Department of Health and Human Service's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality encourages patients to ask their physicians questions regarding surgery and other aspects of healthcare in an effort to reduce preventable medical errors, according…

A study by the Commonwealth Fund has found that private Medicare Advantage plans will be paid $11.4 billion more in 2009, and have been paid $43 billion more since 2004, than what the same beneficiaries would have cost the traditional…

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Adequate on-call emergency coverage is a real issue for hospital emergency departments and inpatients requiring urgent specialist consultation. Sullivan Cotter’s 2008 Physician On-Call Pay Survey Report states that 85 percent of survey respondents have experienced difficulty finding physicians to provide…

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