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California calls for more disclosure of medical costs [video chat]
California officials are looking to build on a federal effort to disclose more healthcare pricing information to consumers. Medicare officials released new data this week that showed wildly different hospital charges across the nation for 100 of the...Tags: Healthcare Policies, Consumers, Insurance, Government Health Care, Crime, Law and Justice
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Hospital fees vary for same treatment, U.S. data show
Centegra Hospital in McHenry charged $36,000 for implanting a permanent pacemaker. Less than 30 miles away, Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan charged more than $165,000 for the same procedure. To treat a case of simple pneumonia, meanwhile, John H....
Tags: Rush University, National Government, Consumers, Health and Safety at School, Government Health Care
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PASSINGS: Jeanne Cooper, Mario Machado, Bryan Forbes
Jeanne Cooper Emmy winner starred in 'The Young and the Restless' Jeanne Cooper, 84, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on CBS' "The Young and the Restless," died Wednesday in her sleep,...Tags: Consumers, Career and Workplace, CBS Corp., Obituaries, Soccer
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Medicare charges vary widely at California hospitals, new data show
Federal officials are shedding new light on how much hospital bills vary across Southern California and the rest of the country. Medicare released pricing information Wednesday for more than 3,300 U.S. hospitals on the top 100 procedures and...
Tags: Healthcare Policies, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Government Health Care, Medical Procedures and Tests, St. Joseph Medical Center
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U.S. makes data available on wide disparity in hospital charges
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) - U.S. hospital charges for the same procedure vary widely, in some cases by tens of thousands of dollars, even within a particular town or city, according to data the U.S. government released on Wednesday to boost consumer...Tags: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Consumers, Kathleen Sebelius, Government Health Care, Medicare
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A Heart To Heart With Stefanie Powers Of 'Looped'
The Hartford Courant"There are lots of decisions you make that, if you think twice, you won't do them," says Stefanie Powers. The actress, best known for the popular TV detective series "Hart to Hart" with Robert Wagner, can't say exactly why she said yes when she got the...Tags: TheaterWorks, Dance, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture
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PASSINGS: Frederic Franklin, David Morris Kern
Frederic Franklin Dancer helped popularize modern ballet in U.S. Frederic Franklin, 98, a British-born dancer who helped popularize modern ballet in the United States, died Saturday at a Manhattan, N.Y., hospital of complications from pneumonia,...
Tags: Dance, Career and Workplace, Entertainment Events, Obituaries, Arts and Culture
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Longtime L.A. news anchor Mario Machado dead
Mario Machado, a longtime Los Angeles television news anchor and reporter who also played a newsman in a number of films and television shows, has died at a West Hills convalescent facility, said his daughter Michelle. He was 78. Machado, who worked...
Tags: Television, Entertainment
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Emmy-Winning L.A. Newsman Mario Machado Dies at 78
ReutersMay 06 (TheWrap.com) - Mario Machado, an eight-time Emmy Award-winning Los Angeles news reporter and anchor who also played reporters in "Rocky III" and "RoboCop," died Saturday in a West Hills convalescent facility, a spokesperson told TheWrap. He was...Tags: Journalism, Parkinson's Disease
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Frederick Pfeiffer: Young lawyers knew they would learn from longtime judge
Frederick Pfeiffer served as a circuit judge for Orange and Osceola County for 20 years, chief circuit judge for a term and presided as a senior judge for an additional 10 years until his retirement in 2003. And he did it all without practicing law....Tags: Lawyers, Judges, George Washington University, Orange County (Florida), Orlando
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Nature Is Best Viewed From The Deck
The Hartford CourantUnless they're asking for spare change, people are willing to engage in conversations with folks they haven't met before for one reason: Perfect strangers are far more likely to be charmed by our adorable eccentricities than are our loved ones. Their...Tags: New York City, Coney Island
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Saber-rattling fits the family Stone
The four Stone kids always were a competitive bunch, especially the three youngest siblings who were separated by three school grades while being home-schooled together. "They worked very hard to keep up with each other — and beat each other," said...
Tags: Columbia University, University of Chicago, UIC Flames, Sabre, University of Illinois at Chicago
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