Hospital Patients

Hospital Bills For Uninsured COVID-19 Patients Are Covered, But No One Tells Them

By Blake Farmer, NPR, Oct 22, 2020. When Darius Settles died from COVID-19 on the Fourth of July, his family and the city of Nashville, Tenn., were shocked. Even the mayor noted the passing of… Read More

‘Ghost surgery’ and Informed Consent Fraud is Common

Is the doctor you chose the one holding the scalpel? Maybe not. You have a legal right to informed consent, but failure to adequately and properly inform the patient of who will be performing an… Read More

COVID Infected ER Doctor Tests Negative 3 Times

By Peter Hunt, for APRA, Aug. 12, 2020. Working on the front lines as an emergency room doctor, it isn’t a matter of if you will become infected with COVID but when. Dr. Daniel LaVene,… Read More

Tenet to Pay $1.4M to Settle Medically Unnecessary Implant Suit

By Alia Paavola, Beckers Hospital Review, February 12th, 2020. Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and one of its hospitals in Palm Springs, Calif., will pay $1.41 million to resolve allegations that they knowingly charged Medicare for implanting unnecessary… Read More

Hospitals Can Be Sued for Battery When Patients Say ‘Stop’

By Ayla Ellison, Beckers Hospital Review, February 14th, 2020. A patient who asks a clinician to stop a procedure and it’s feasible to do so can sue for battery if medical staff continue with the treatment,… Read More

Low-rated US hospitals are deadlier due to mistakes, botched surgery, infections

By Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY, May 15, 2019. Patients’ risk of dying from medical mistakes, deadly infections and safety lapses have gotten much worse at the lowest ranked U.S. hospitals, underscoring Americans’ need to check… Read More

Heart Valve Infection Risk on the Rise in Hospitals

By John Commins, Healthleaders Media, September 30, 2019. New infection sources have emerged for people with heart disease, and defective or artificial heart valves. That’s according to a new study from researchers at Rutgers Robert… Read More

Hospitals Are Producing an ‘Epidemic of Immobility’ in Elderly Patients

By Melissa Bailey, The Washington Post, Oct. 13, 2019. Dorothy Twigg was living on her own, cooking and walking without help until a dizzy spell landed her in the emergency room. She spent three days… Read More

Nurses at New Jersey Hospital Gave Benadryl to Patients to Make Them Sleep, Lighten Workload

By Madeline Farber | Fox News, Oct. 11, 2019. A nurse is suing Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J., claiming she was retaliated against after reporting that some of her colleagues working the night shift gave… Read More

Pelvic Exams Being Performed on Sedated Hospital Patients without Consent

By Misha Valencia, Healthline. Aug. 30, 2019. Under any other circumstances, it would be a crime. So why is this the exception? When Ashley Weitz went to the emergency room at a local hospital in… Read More