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Medicare -- Huge Variations in Costs of Care |
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Written by By Compilation
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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Medicare -- By Robert Pear in the New York Times -- "Researchers Find Huge Variations in End-of-Life Treatments" -- Pear summarizes new research by The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care which indicates that the costs of chronic ilness and end-of-life treatment vary significantly from hospital to hospital and region to region. This raises the possibility that Medicare could find another cost savings area in these fiscally challanging times. (Read)
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