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...total of 320 bypasses have now been performed under the new rules. "There are fewer complications. Patients are going home sooner. There's less post-op bleeding and less intubation in the operating room," says Casale. What's more, the reduced complication rate has cut the per-patient cost by about...
...FDIC funds is raising questions about how well the agency has contained the costs of the credit crisis. Bank failures are not of the FDIC's making: the Federal Reserve failed to rein in mortgage-lending, while regulatory agencies like the Office of Thrift Supervision allowed banks to make loans without adequate capital. But the FDIC has the final say on when and how to close a bank, and some believe it has been waiting too long to act, adding to the cost of failures. Regulators labeled Chicago-based Corus Bank critically undercapitalized in March, but it took the FDIC...
...study’s researchers also acknowledged that the reform’s positive results have come with “trade-offs,” including administrative burdens and higher costs. About 50 percent of the physicians polled said they believed the law was “hurting” the overall cost of health care in Massachusetts...
...meantime, it appeared Friday that Smith’s calls for cost-cutting measures last spring—when deficit estimates ran as high as $220 million over a two-year period—had paid some dividends...
...open forum in September, Smith first informed faculty and staff that progress had been made on the University’s financial situation which had led him to prescribe cost-cutting measures that went “significantly further” than the “proverbial belt tightening,” as he wrote in a correspondence to the Faculty last year...