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
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State Medical Records Laws
Medical records privacy laws outline patients’ rights to secrecy of their medical information, and the circumstances under which that information may (or must) be disclosed. Choose a link from the list below for state-specific laws...
Hospitals Are More Profitable When They Make Medical Mistakes
From The Davis Law Group, Feb. 19, 2019. Because of the multi-million dollar lawsuits and disciplinary sanctions that typically result from medical errors and other forms of hospital negligence, it has long been understood that… Read More
Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet. Anyone Can Take a Peek.
By Jack Gillum, Jeff Kao and Jeff Larson, for ProPublica. Sep 17, 2019. Medical images and health data belonging to millions of Americans, including X-rays, MRIs and CT scans, are sitting unprotected on the internet… Read More
Medicare Fraudsters Now Tap Telemedicine In Medical Equipment Scams
By Victoria Knight, Kaiser Health News, Oct. 9, 2019. Dean Ernest had been living in a nursing home about a year when his son, John, got a call last winter asking if his father was… Read More
Medication Administration Errors A Serious Safety Problem
From the Patient Safety Network, Jan 2019. Adverse Drug Event (ADE) is an injury that occurs as a result of medication error. Medication errors need to be addressed for improving patient safety, as there is… Read More
Challenging Hospital Discharge Decisions
Hospital stays are difficult times for patients and their families, especially for those who need long term care upon discharge. Increasingly short hospital stays pose a tremendous challenge to families who have to arrange post-hospital...
How to Avoid Hospital-Acquired Infections
Hospitals are dangerous places to be for several reasons. First, the only patients hospitalized are those who are very sick, those who need surgery that can’t be performed in an outpatient facility, or those who...
When Insurance Stops Paying
Stephanie Peirolo had an excellent health plan, so when her 16-year-old son sustained a traumatic brain injury, she thought his claims would be covered. She was dead wrong. “There is a particular cruelty to having… Read More
Claims Denials and Appeals in ACA Marketplace Plans
By Karen Pollitz, Cynthia Cox Follow and Rachel Fehr, for KFF – Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. . In this report, we analyze transparency data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to examine claims… Read More