Medical System
Racial Bias in Hospitals Linked to UnitedHeath Group’s Algorithm
Researchers Find Racial Bias in Hospital Algorithm By Melanie Evans & Anna Wilde Mathews, The Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2019. Black patients were less likely than white patients to get extra medical help, despite… Read More
The Role of Private Equity in Driving Up Health Care Prices
While private capital is bringing innovation to health care through new delivery models, technologies, and operational efficiencies, there is another side to investors entering health care. The impact of their common business model of buying,… Read More
NO INDUSTRY HIDES PRICING FROM ITS CUSTOMERS LIKE HEALTHCARE DOES—THIS HAS TO STOP
By Marty Makary, Newsweek Opinion. Oct.10,2019. It’s hard to think of a worse way to pay for health care than our current system. Imagine if travel websites listed flights with no prices, as airline companies… Read More
Nursing home mogul Philip Esformes sentenced to 20 years for $1.3 billion Medicaid fraud
Photo Credit Rob Latour / Rob Latour/Invision/AP By DAVID JACKSON and MARIO ARIZA, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SEP 13, 2019. Former Illinois and Florida nursing home mogul Philip Esformes wept and pleaded for mercy Thursday before being sentenced to 20 years in… Read More
Dangerous doctors: Despite malpractice charges, Florida lets them keep treating patients
By STEPHEN HOBBS, SUN SENTINEL, OCT 26, 2017. It has been more than nine years since Florida health regulators concluded that Dr. Barry Jack Kaplan botched a woman’s breast implants and shouldn’t practice cosmetic surgery. In… Read More
7 Takeaways From a Year-long Investigation Into the Country’s Broken Medical License System
By John Fauber and Matt Wynn, USA TODAY NETWORK. Some peddled opioids and others sold snake oil treatments. Some had sex with vulnerable patients. Still others botched surgeries or were implicated in patients’ deaths. A… Read More
Bad physician: Doctor discipline disrupted in Florida
“We have to withdraw cases because we don’t have enough physician members.” By Christine Jordan Sexton. Floridapolitics.com Gov. Ron DeSantis made several appointments this week, but he still hasn’t made appointments to the state medical licensing board, and… Read More
Medical Errors: How Clinicians Still Struggle to Diagnose a Broken System
By Kevin Kunzmann & Jenna Payesko, MD Magazine. Alex James knew how to exhaust himself. It started on his childhood swim team when his coach, a whistle-blowing, red-faced caricature, demanded he swim to the end...
Fear and Health Care: Gallup survey finds Americans skipped treatment, borrowed $88B to pay for costs.
By Ken Alltucker, USA Today. Americans borrowed about $88 billion to pay for health care last year, and one infour people skipped care because of costs, according to a new Gallup survey fundedby a nonpartisan… Read More