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SALT LAKE CITY-- The largest health and hospital system in Utah is agreeing to hand over $25.5 million to the federal government to settle claims it improperly contracted with doctors.
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SALT LAKE CITY-- The largest health and hospital system in Utah is agreeing to hand over $25.5 million to the federal government to settle claims it improperly contracted with doctors.
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WICHITA, Kan.-- A new clinic offering abortions and other women's medical services saw its first patient Thursday in the Wichita building where a slain Kansas abortion provider had practiced. "We have been working a long time, really hard to get this open to provide services to women in Wichita," said Kerry Townsend Jacob, the group's spokeswoman.
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In addition to superbugs' deadly human toll, associated health costs run into the billions. Some warn that we may never win our war against them as research tapers off.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.-- Shares of hospital operator Vanguard Health Systems took back some ground Wednesday after the company said it had secured a three-year contract to manage Medicaid patients in Arizona. It had said last month that Arizona wasn't renewing a bigger Medicaid contract.
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A new study that estimates hospitals can expect to see a 25 percent growth in revenues from Medicaid money.
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NEW YORK, March 21- Walk-in clinics are popping up in shopping malls and main streets across the United States and private equity is helping fund the expansion. The number of such clinics in the United States climbed almost 20 percent to 9,400 in the last four years, according to the Urgent Care Association of America.
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Michael Philippi, chief executive of unlisted Sana Kliniken AG, the fourth-largest private-sector hospitals operator in Germany, said transformative "leaps" were not likely in the foreseeable future.
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*Technology now in patient trials at London hospital. LONDON, March 15- A donated human liver has been kept alive, warm and functioning outside a human being on a newly-developed machine and then successfully transplanted into patients in a medical world first.
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March 14- Cuts in federal funds for hospitals serving low-income patients, which are set to begin later this year under the new U.S. healthcare law, will create budget challenges for both hospitals and states, Moody's Investors Service said on Thursday.
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FRANKFURT, March 14- German antitrust regulators approved plans by hospital operator Asklepios to take a blocking minority of more than 10 percent in rival Rhoen-Klinikum. That would have created a dominant private-sector player in the hospitals industry in Germany large enough to offer its own medical insurance.
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*Medical tourism market seen at $40- 60 billion. "It was simply cheaper for me to go to a dentist in Hungary," said a 42- year-old physical therapist from Berlin, who did not want to give his name. He chose the clinic near Budapest from an Internet advertisement, enticed by hundreds of euros in savings compared with the same treatment in Germany.
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A baby girl in Mississippi who was born with HIV has been cured after very early treatment with standard HIV drugs, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
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Feb 26- Tenet Healthcare Corp on Tuesday reported a fourth-quarter profit versus a year-ago loss as outpatient hospital visits increased and said it sees health reform next year will have a positive impact on earnings. "We see a lot of upside in our markets," Tenet Chief Executive Trevor Fetter said on a conference call.
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*Q4 profit of 45 cents/ shr vs year-ago loss of 70 cents/ shr. Feb 26- Tenet Healthcare Corp on Tuesday reported a profit for the fourth quarter versus a year-earlier loss as outpatient visits to its hospitals rose.
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*Q4 EPS 92 cents ex legal costs tops view 82 cents. Feb 5- HCA Holdings Inc, the largest U.S. for-profit hospital operator, on Tuesday reported lower quarterly net earnings due to costs to settle legal claims, but revenues were boosted as more patients sought treatment during a severe flu season.
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*Q4 EPS 92 cents ex legal costs tops view 82 cents. Feb 5- HCA Holdings Inc, the largest U.S. for-profit hospital operator, reported lower quarterly net earnings due to costs to settle legal claims, but its revenue got a boost from treating more patients in a severe flu season.
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*Q4 EPS 92 cents ex legal costs tops view 82 cents. Net income fell to $314 million, or 68 cents per share, from $1.94 billion, or $4.25 a share, a year earlier, when one-time gains from facilities sales and an investment boosted earnings. Excluding legal expenses in the latest quarter, Nashville, Tennessee- based HCA reported earnings of 92 cents per share.
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*Q4 EPS of 92 cents excluding legal costs tops analysts' 82 cents view. Net income fell to $314 million, or 68 cents per share, compared with $1.94 billion, or $4.25 a share, a year earlier, when one-time gains from facilities sales and an investment boosted earnings.
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Feb 5- HCA Holdings Inc, the largest U.S. for-profit hospital operator, reported lower fourth-quarter net earnings, reduced by costs to settle legal claims. Net income fell to $314 million, or 68 cents per share, compared with $1.94 billion, or $4.25 a share, a year earlier, when one-time gains from facilities sales and an investment boosted earnings.
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Feb 4- The Obama administration on Monday proposed eliminating certain obsolete Medicare regulations, a move it said would save hospitals and other healthcare providers an estimated $676 million a year, or $3.4 billion over five years.