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The Fight on Arbitration in Nursing Homes

  By Susan Pickup, Staff Writer The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS), just enacted a provision forbidding nursing home facilities that receive federal funding to force potential patients to enter into pre-dispute arbitration agreements before receiving care.[1] […]

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Shake Your Money Maker…

Shake Your Money Maker… By Alexandra Murray, Staff Writer Your moneymaker being your heart and the procedures cardiologists perform on it, of course!  Cardiologists and the hospitals where they work rake in money through heart surgeries.  Physicians in the United States are generally compensated on a fee-for-service basis,  which means […]

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