Early one Friday morning two years ago, David Diaz woke up his wife, Marisia, and told her he didn’t feel right. He asked her to pray with him. Their son called 911, and within minutes, Marisia was tailing an ambulance down the dirt road away from the couple’s house on the outskirts of Phoenix to a hospital in the city. David had had a massive heart attack.
Some hospitals are using increasingly aggressive means to collect on unpaid bills, including garnishing patients' wages and forcing them to sell their homes. The University of Virginia Health System filed roughly 36,000 lawsuits against patients over six years. Carlsbad Medical Center in New Mexico has sued more than 3,000 patients over 10 years.
For Jonathan Bush, there is life after Athenahealth. The outspoken former chief executive of the Watertown, Mass., company has landed a new gig as executive chairman of the Boston startup Firefly Health, which aims to provide primary care for patients through an app as well as clinic and employer visits.
Purdue Pharma LP filed for bankruptcy protection Sunday night with a partial deal aimed at resolving thousands of lawsuits filed by states and municipalities accusing it of fueling the opioid crisis.
Georgia makes few apologies about being a “business friendly” state. In fact, it promotes the concept as the “No. 1 state to do business” as publicly as possible. Thus, when powerful organizations popular with Georgia’s governing majority party announce opposition to a proposed merger, it is worth some time understanding why.
An Indiana company would hold a stake in two of the three managed-care companies serving Arkansas Medicaid recipients with costly health needs under an acquisition awaiting approval by the Arkansas Insurance Department.