Even with health insurance, you can still end up with medical bills from medical expenses that weren’t covered by insurance. If you don’t pay medical bills when they are due, they can end up going...
Article Summary: The Baltimore plant that recently had to scrap up to 15 million ruined doses had flouted rules and downplayed errors, according to internal audits, ex-employees and clients. By Katie Adams, Backer’s Hospital Review,… Read More
Medical Error Statistics: When Healthcare Can Kill You By Maria Clark, for Etactics, September 24, 2020. Responsible people don’t think twice about visiting the hospital. If we feel sick, need surgery, or have a major… Read More
Our profit-driven healthcare system is broken and your life, as well as your savings, are at risk. Unexpected medical bills, such as from out-of-network doctors who people thought were in-network, visits to the ER, hospital stays,
I’ve come across some astounding charges investigating how emergency rooms bill patients. A woman in California fell off her bike and now faces a $20,243 bill. A patient in New Jersey never got past the...
Medicare’s Private Option Is Gaining Popularity, and Critics. As more Americans sign up for Medicare Advantage, detractors worry that it’s helping private insurers more than patients. When Ed Stein signed up for Medicare eight years...
“There’s a reason you can’t understand your hospital bill. Nobody wants you to.” By Ann Brenoff, Huffpost, 05/17/2017 | Updated May 17, 2017. Medical bills are the gift that keeps on giving. Having lost my husband in...
A watchdog group has identified the top four risks for patient safety at ambulatory care settings, according to a new report. Ambulatory care facilities such as physician offices and outpatient clinics are the most widely...
By Christopher Cheney, HealthLeaders Media, October 08, 2019. Surgical staplers are the top medical technology hazard for 2020, according to the ECRI Institute. Twenty years after publication of the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report To… Read More
Summary: According to a USA Today review of government records and medical databases, tens of thousands of patients undergo unnecessary surgery each and every year• Among the most commonly performed unnecessary surgeries are cardiac angioplasties,...