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Health care act will spur competition among insurers
I work for a mid-size firm Baltimore, and our health insurance costs will rise only modestly in 2013. However, in talking to friends at local companies, their health insurers are raising rates exorbitantly in anticipation of the state health exchanges...Tags: Barack Obama, Richard Nixon, Health Insurance, Mitt Romney, U.S. Congress
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Hope House opens 'new chapter' on Laurel's Main Street
On a sunny afternoon last week, a family could be seen walking inside Hope House Laurel, while two groups of people of varying ages sat in chairs in the shade on the side of the building talking amicably. This private substance abuse treatment center in...
Tags: Addiction, Behavioral Conditions, Prince George's County, Hospitals and Clinics, Substance Abuse
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Colonoscopies cheaper in Baltimore than other parts of the country
The New York Times looked at the varying costs of a colonoscopy at hospitals around the country to illustrate how simple medical procedures are driving up health care costs. The story that ran over the weekend found that the costs of medical...
Tags: The New York Times, Colonoscopy, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Treatments
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13 insurers want to offer plans on state exchange
Thirteen insurers have submitted plans to offer health insurance on the state exchange, or marketplace where individuals can buy insurance under health care reform, that begins open enrollment in October. The plans must still be certified by the state....
Tags: Healthcare Policies, Prescription Drugs, Health Insurance Cost, Drugs and Medicines, Agriculture
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Jockeys call for increased disability insurance
Jerry Bailey can look back on a Hall of Fame jockey career that featured 5,892 victories but also the searing memory of 17 fractures, including a broken back, jaw and collarbone, and several busted ribs. Yet Bailey considers himself lucky. He never...
Tags: Belmont Stakes, Triple Crown, Pimlico Race Course, Ramon A. Dominguez , Preakness Stakes
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Bel Air honors Harford Day students
The members of the Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners honored two Harford Day School students Monday for their dedication to the arts, their studies and the community. Avery Riedel and Klia Trintis, both eighth-graders, received Student Achievement...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Antietam National Battlefield, Hanover (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Aberdeen, Dance
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Hospital rates vary significantly, Medicare data show
Johns Hopkins Hospital charged $13,667 on average to treat one admission of a Medicare patient with diabetes in 2011, while a couple of miles away Mercy Medical Center billed an average of $8,425. The University of Maryland Medical Center charged $9,045...
Tags: Diabetes, Phil McGraw, Kathleen Sebelius, Marketing, Urinary Tract Infection
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Richard F. Ober, lawyer
Richard F. Ober, a retired lawyer and insurance company executive who enjoyed sailing the Chesapeake Bay, died April 13 from vascular disease at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 98. The son of a lawyer and a homemaker, Richard...Tags: Oxford (Talbot, Maryland), Anglicanism, U.S. Army, Justice System, Charles Street
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Md. hospitals say rate vote means jobs cuts
Maryland hospitals said they will need to cut jobs and patient services after a state panel voted Wednesday to keep hospital rates flat, despite a 2 percent cut in Medicare payments required by federal sequestration. "There are significant job cuts...
Tags: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Medicare, Corporate Officers, Finance
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Health officials consider increasing plastic surgery center oversight
Maryland health officials may ask state lawmakers for permission to oversee plastic surgery centers, a move inspired in part by the death of a Lochearn woman after liposuction.
The state health department had already been considering whether to ask...Tags: Justice System, Health and Medical Professionals, Procedural Sedation, Towson, Surgery
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Recession the fault of the poor? Not exactly
That's right, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., blame the subprime crisis on poor people ("Did we learn from subprime crisis?" April 21). Government over-extension of housing funds to marginal buyers is only one small part of why the crisis occurred. Instead, let'...
Tags: Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Interior Policy, Housing and Urban Planning
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Rate-setting commission recommends no increase in hospital charges
The state's hospitals would absorb all of the 2 percent Medicare cuts required by federal sequestration under a proposal released Thursday by the state panel that sets hospital rates. The recommendation by the staff of the Health Services Cost Review...
Tags: Finance, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Medicare, Hospitals and Clinics
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