Health Care News
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DaVita Inc., a provider of kidney dialysis care, agreed to buy HealthCare Partners for about $4.42 billion in cash and stock, expanding into broader medical services as it sees dialysis moving to a new payment model.
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Surgery to remove your appendix in one California hospital could cost $180,000. Have the operation at a different facility in the same state and the bill might be as little as $1,500.
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Doctors, hospitals and drugmakers raised prices faster than inflation in 2010, driving U.S. health costs higher as fewer Americans sought care after the recession.
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A $6.4 billion effort to speed U.S. reviews of new drugs and medical devices is a step closer to law as the agreements Mylan Inc., Pfizer Inc. and other companies struck with regulators wind through Congress.
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