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• In-hospital errors kill thousands in U.S., but go unreported in New ...
But they do happen sometimes and end up killing between 44,000 and 98,000 people a year, according to the Institute of Medicine. And now the federal government and the state's largest insurer have stopped paying hospitals for never events, which will ...
• Credit crisis bears down on hospitals
The credit freeze that has followed Wall Street’s subprime mortgage meltdown is bearing down on another victim: Bay Area hospital construction projects. “Any kind of (credit) issuance has halted, while folks are waiting for things to settle down ...
• Quake kills 12 in Russia's North Caucasus
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia - A strong earthquake hit Chechnya and other parts of Russia's North Caucasus Saturday, killing at least 12 people and damaging scores of hospitals, schools and other buildings, emergency officials said. The quake hit around 1 p ...
• In-network but out of luck
Out-of-network doctors working in in-network hospitals are a growing national problem, especially as more medical specialists become choosier about what health insurance plans they'll participate in, experts say. "It is a reasonable assumption ...
• 8 die in bus crash; driver suspected of DUI
Families flooded hospitals looking for relatives who may have been involved in the crash. Yvonne Haynes, 35, of Merced got a phone call Sunday night from her brother Tou Xiong, 29, saying there had been a bus accident. They started calling hospitals ...