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Four hospitals were chosen for the demonstration, and each was paid a single fee for all inpatient and physician services for heart-bypass patients.

Dana P. Goldman: Congress and Medicare Dana P. Goldman 2011

A few months ago, she went through heart-bypass surgery, and the recovery has been grueling and slow.

Old Grandma Hardcore « A Working Title 2009

Researchers analyzed administrative data on 163,006 patients who needed heart-bypass surgery or surgery to remove damaged sections of the lung or colon.

Common Hormone Worsens Pain in the Long Term, Study 2010

Roderick MartinWinchester• Your editorial on the perils of the cut-price knife 23 February misleads a putative heart-bypass patient.

Letters: Cost pressures on the NHS 2011

Most patients began surgery on the day of admission to the hospital — 53% of heart-bypass patients, 79% of colon-surgery patients and 94% of lung-surgery patients.

Common Hormone Worsens Pain in the Long Term, Study 2010

The Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center has teamed up with the Society of Thoracic Surgeons to publish ratings of heart-bypass surgical groups based on how their results compare with national standards for survival, complications and other measures.

Consumer Reports Insights: The do's and don'ts of caring for your heart 2010

In 1983 he contracted AIDS from tainted blood during a heart-bypass operation, and died of complications nine years later, on April 6, 1992.

End credits: Who are these people? Johnny Pez 2010

At a recent signing he suffered a heart attack and after being rushed to hospital required quadruple heart-bypass surgery.

Archive 2009-07-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

At a recent signing he suffered a heart attack and after being rushed to hospital required quadruple heart-bypass surgery.

Aaron Allston needs some fan support Adam Whitehead 2009

For those with more severe heart disease, the study compared an immediate heart-bypass surgery -- instead of the less-invasive stenting -- against pills.

Diabetes Study Questions Expensive Treatments 2009