On any given day, one in every 31 hospital patients has an infection that was contracted during their stay, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Infections and other complications can prolong hospital...
By Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News, February 8, 2022. . The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for… Read More
By Jeffrey Kahntroff and Rochelle Watson, AMA Journal of Ethics, Jan. 2009. Gabino Olvera is a 42-year-old man who is mentally ill, paraplegic, and homeless. He was dropped off by Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in… Read More
The leading nurses union says the study highlights the need for a Medicare for All system to limit high markups By IGOR DERYSH, NOVEMBER 22, 2020, For Salon. Hospitals in the United States charge patients as much… Read More
By Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News, Nov. 02, 2020. Nearly half the nation’s hospitals, many of which are still wrestling with the financial fallout of the unexpected coronavirus, will get lower payments for all Medicare… Read More
By Juliet Isselbacher, STAT News, Aug 03, 2020. As Covid-19 continues to strain the country’s hospital system, new research exposes a striking gap in access to ICU care from one community to the next. The… Read More
The gap between rates set for private insurers and employers vs. those by the federal government stirs the debate over a government-run health plan. By Reed Abelson, The New York Times, Sept. 18, 2020. Hospitals across… Read More
Report on Predatory Medical Billing In Texas Names 28 Hospitals And A Dallas Law Firm By SAM BAKER, KERA News, JUN 1, 2020. The May 27 report from a healthcare research and policy team at… Read More
By Ayla Ellison, Beckers Hospital Report, Feb. 25, 2020. An Alabama woman received an emergency appendectomy at Flowers Hospital in Dothan, Ala., in May 2016. Three years later, the hospital sued her for nearly $37,000,… Read More
By Alia Paavola, Beckers Hospital Review, Feb. 18, 2020. Nonprofit hospitals that generated the highest net incomes provided less charity care to patients relative to their income than their lower-earning peers, according to a new… Read More