New Jersey is calling for greater transparency in private hospital ownership, as part of an effort to rein in what officials have called “questionable” management fees being paid out to outside parties. A $158 million payout, made over three years by three for-profit N.J. hospitals to three principles, have come under scrutiny by the state’s Department of Health. One of those institutions includes the co-founder of startup Clover Health, and the others run by CarePoint and Prime Healthcare.
Digital health startups seem to be struggling to the point of failure. Many insights into why have addressed how technology’s traditional model of quickly putting out a minimum viable product then finding useful applications and business models isn’t working.
Campaigners are calling on one of Maryland’s largest hospitals to drop more than 2,400 lawsuits against patients for unpaid medical bills. A report published in May revealed that Johns Hopkins hospital (JHH), one of the biggest hospitals in the state, filed more than 2,400 lawsuits against patients for not paying their medical bills, the median cost of which was $1,438.
Christ Hospital is apologizing to the family of Marlen Ochoa. Weeks after the 19-year-old was killed and baby was cut from her womb, the family said they continued to receive bills from the Christ Advocate Hospital listing her alleged murderer as the baby’s mother.
An anonymous benefactor has donated $25 million to create a new neurological outpatient center and increase the hospital’s capacity to perform life-saving interventional radiology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the East Hollywood institution announced Wednesday.