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By Tom Bronzini / Friday, May 9th, 2014 / East Ventura County, Health Care & Life Science, Tri-County Economy, West Ventura County / Comments Off on CMH launches residency program to combat coming doctor shortage
Ventura County’s Community Memorial Health System has embarked on an ambitious effort to address a severe shortage of family doctors that is looming nationwide. About a third of physicians now practicing are age 58 or older, Community Memorial President and CEO Gary Wilde said in answering questions after a State of the Health System address Read More →
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, May 9th, 2014 / Central Coast, East Ventura County, Features, Health Care & Life Science, South Coast, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, West Ventura County / Comments Off on Costly eye drug drives up region’s Medicare bills
A Santa Barbara eye doctor and a drug that costs $2,000 per dose are at the center of the debate over how to control the spiraling cost of Medicare.
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Monday, April 21st, 2014 / Central Coast, East Ventura County, Health Care & Life Science, South Coast, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, West Ventura County / Comments Off on The eyes have it when it comes to Medicare payouts
Of the 3,286 individual doctors in the Tri-Counties who billed Medicare for reimbursements in 2012, fewer than 1 percent received more than $1 million from the federal program.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, April 18th, 2014 / Health Care & Life Science, South Coast, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Health care prices under scrutiny in Sansum-Cottage merger
As the regulatory review of the proposed merger between Cottage Health System and Sansum Clinic stretches to the six-month mark, a recent federal court ruling points out key issues that arise when a dominant hospital system buys a major physician group. In an Idaho case decided earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission intensely focused Read More →