Hospital scopes out Natividad (The Monterey County Herald)
Administrators from Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital have offered to help settle the crisis at Natividad Medical Center.

Receipt-only system to aid insurance claims (Daily Yomiuri Online)
The Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. launched a system earlier this month in which benefits for hospital stays of 14 days or shorter for surgery are paid to claimants on the basis of hospital receipts alone instead of conventionally required medical certificates, the first of its kind in the nation.

Insurance shopping improves financial health (Sydney Morning Herald)
It's time for a check-up, writes Debra Cleveland, to avoid paying for things you don't need. -