What the Sunshine Act Means for Health Care Transparency
[The Atlantic] Curious whether a prescription or medical device your doctor is recommending comes from a manufacturer who has been paying your doctor? Good news, then: The federal government has...
View ArticleKentucky Attorney General Sues GlaxoSmithKline
[PharmaPro] LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s attorney general has joined in the flurry of legal action against GlaxoSmithKline, filing a lawsuit accusing the company of concealing the cardiovascular...
View ArticleExpert: Hospitals’ ‘Humongous Monopoly’ Drives Prices High
[Kaiser Health News] The American Enterprise Institute didn’t plan its panel last week on hospital consolidation to coincide with Steve Brill’s much-talked-about Time magazine article on hospital...
View ArticleOn Purposely Getting Arrested, to Get Life-Saving Surgery
[The Atlantic] A 41-year-old man who had been incarcerated came to see me recently. While in prison he got in a fight, which led to a CT scan. He hadn’t broken anything, but the scan did...
View ArticleA.D.H.D. Seen in 11% of U.S. Children as Diagnoses Rise
[New York Times] Nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity...
View ArticlePaying Kidney Donors Can Save $$, Help Patients
[medpageTODAY] Paying living donors for their kidneys would reduce the number of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients on dialysis and transplant wait lists, and save the healthcare system money,...
View ArticleWhen Insurers Drop Policies: Three Stories
[NYTimes] Charles Nance, Dean Wright and Julie Tyrrell are getting dropped — forced out of their existing health insurance plans — and landing smack in the middle of the uproar over President Obama’s...
View ArticleAs Robot-Assisted Surgery Expands, Are Patients And Providers Getting Enough...
[Kaiser Health News] The use of robotic surgical systems is expanding rapidly, but hospitals, patients and regulators may not be getting enough information to determine whether the high tech approach...
View ArticleAs Hospital Prices Soar, a Stitch Tops $500
[NYTimes] With blood oozing from deep lacerations, the two patients arrived at California Pacific Medical Center’s tidy emergency room. Deepika Singh, 26, had gashed her knee at a backyard barbecue....
View ArticleObamacare Still Hasn’t Stopped Non-Profit Hospitals from Ripping People Off
[The Wire] One of the patient protections built into the Affordable Care Act prevents hospitals from overcharging for services and requires them to examine a patient’s financial situation before filing...
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