Study: Rates of Texas Elective Surgeries Vary by Region
The rates of elective surgery for Medicare patients vary dramatically depending on which part of the state Texans live in, according to new research from the Dartmouth Atlas Project, which analyzes medical referrals, procedures and spiraling health care costs across the nation.
The rate of women on Medicare, the federal health insurer for the elderly, receiving a mastectomy for early-stage breast cancer between 2008 and 2010 was four times higher in Victoria than it was in Temple. In 2010, doctors performed surgery for lower back pain at a rate of 3 per 1,000 Medicare patients in the Temple area ...
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Susan Flores via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Aliens get Star Cards here in TX, must have voted for Perry.
Rudyg43
Here's the good part. When the feds come in and standardize insurance companies after they pay to participate in the insurance exchange, the rates will all be standardized and Medicaid will undergo a refinement for the patient and not the hospitals and doctors who have Carte Blanche with billing. And all the TEA-Republican's wanting to limit governmental interference have fertilized and watered federal expansion.