“As a journalist who spent years covering the business of health care, I found there was more motivating my expensive testing cascade than concerns about my health.” Severe Sleep Apnea Diagnosis Panics Reporter Until He Finds a Simple, […]
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“The problem didn’t seem to be that the clinic lacked the medical expertise to evaluate Frankie. Rather, the Cooks seemed to be confronting a reimbursement policy that is often used by urgent care centers to avoid waiting for payments from car insurance settlements. Russell […]
“Discrimination in health care is ‘the secret, or silent, poison that taints interactions between providers and patients before, during, after the medical encounter,’ said Dayna Bowen Matthew, dean of George Washington University’s law school….“The stereotypes that can find their way into patients’ records […]
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“…because many crises that befall premature or very sick babies are in-the-moment emergencies, there may not be time for the preapprovals that insurers often require for expensive interventions. That leaves parents in crisis — or in mourning — tasked with fighting with insurers […]
“In the past decade, private equity groups have gone from taking over a handful of practices to working with as many as 8% of the nation’s ophthalmologists….” Private Equity Sees the Billions in Eye Care as Firms Target High-Profit Procedures […]
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“Now health plans and self-insured employers — those that pay workers’ and dependents’ medical costs themselves — may consider imposing cost sharing for preventive services on their members and workers. That’s because of a federal judge’s Sept. 7 ruling in a Texas lawsuit filed by […]