Hospital News
Nearly half of low-income communities have no ICU beds in their area
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
Many Hospitals Charge More Than Twice What Medicare Pays for the Same Care
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
Patients at Risk Amid COVID Surge As Hospitals Hesitate To Cancel Non-emergency Surgeries
Article Summary: Most hospitals are not proactively canceling elective surgeries, even in places seeing spikes in coronavirus cases, risking patient safety. By Samantha Young, KHN, Jul 09, 2020. Three months ago, the nation watched as… Read More
Predatory Medical Billing In Texas
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
Furor Erupts As Billions Going To Hospitals Based On Medicare Billings, Not COVID-19
By Jay Hancock and Phil Galewitz and Elizabeth Lucas, KHN, Apr 10, 2020. Probably few hospital systems need the emergency federal grants announced this week to handle the coronavirus crisis as badly as Florida’s Jackson… Read More
Cancer Patients Face Treatment Delays And Uncertainty As Coronavirus Cripples Hospitals
By Will Stone, KHN, Apr 07, 2020. The federal government has encouraged health centers to delay nonessential surgeries while weighing the severity of patients’ conditions and the availability of personal protective equipment, beds and staffing… Read More
COVID-19 Reveals Hospitalists Hired to Admit More Patients
The hospital census calm before the COVID-19 storm. By STEVE M. GRANT, MD, MARCH 22, 2020. From Kevinmd.com. Ed. – Adapted for APRA. As COVID-19 hits, we’re rightfully terrified our hospitals will be overrun, as they… Read More
Woman Sued by Alabama Hospital Over $31K Bill: ‘I wish you’d have let me die’
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
Highest-earning nonprofit hospitals give less charity care than lower-earning ones, study finds
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