TITLE

As health costs rise, small firms sit on sidelines

AUTHOR(S)

Solnik, Claude

PUB. DATE

August 2003

SOURCE

Long Island Business News (7/1993 to 5/2009);8/1/2003, Vol. 50 Issue 32, p31A

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

]Reports health care developments in Long Island, New York. Increase in health care rates; Selection of William J. Porter Jr. as vice chairman of the board of Winthrop University Hospital; Medical practice fee.

ACCESSION #

10449050

Tags: MEDICAL care;  HOSPITALS

 

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