By Ana Pena, MS News. Nearly 18% of new multiple sclerosis (MS) patients referred to two speciality clinics in Los Angeles, California, have been misdiagnosed with the disease, according to a recent study. Most of… Read More
Stephanie Peirolo had an excellent health plan, so when her 16-year-old son sustained a traumatic brain injury, she thought his claims would be covered. She was dead wrong. “There is a particular cruelty to having… Read More
Hospital Infections and Drug Resistant Germs – A Public Health Threat Cloaked in a Climate of Secrecy In the United States, two million people contract resistant infections annually and recent estimates from researchers at Washington… Read More
Hospitals are exploiting desperate patients by marketing controversial stem cell procedures without any proven benefits. By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News. The six-minute segment in an online video mimics a morning talk show, using a… Read More
By Lisa Rapaport, for Reuters Health. Hospital medication shortages are forcing clinicians to decide which patients receive needed medications and which do not. More than two-thirds of pharmacists in U.S. hospitals deal with at least… Read More
Did Your Doctor ‘Ghost’ You? An Employment Contract May Be To Blame By Michelle Andrews, for KHN. When Don Cue developed a bladder infection last fall, he called his longtime urologist’s office for a urine… Read More
By Sydney Lupkin and Elizabeth Lucas and Victoria Knight. Dozens of patient advocacy groups, like the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation and the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, recently appeared in national advertisements objecting… Read More
By Julie Appleby, for KHN. One health plan from a well-known insurer promises lower premiums but warns that consumers may need to file their own claims and negotiate over charges from hospitals and doctors. Another… Read More
Eight hundred hospitals will be paid less by Medicare this year because of high rates of infections and patient injuries, federal records show. The number is the highest since the federal government five years ago… Read More
By Karen Pollitz, Cynthia Cox Follow and Rachel Fehr, for KFF – Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. . In this report, we analyze transparency data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to examine claims… Read More