A flood of surprise hospital bills could start arriving in U.S. mailboxes as early as January unless two giant for-profit health care companies resolve a dispute over whether thousands of doctors remain in patients’ insurance networks.
Archana Chatterjee left her loved ones behind in India nearly three decades ago to pursue her medical training in the United States. She missed her parents’ final years and her mother’s funeral since she moved to care for communities far from her own. Today, Chatterjee is one of three pediatric infectious disease specialists in the state of South Dakota;the other two are from Colombia and Argentina.
Seventeen women filed suit Tuesday against Columbia University and its associated hospitals, claiming the institutions committed negligence and fraud as part of a "massive coverup" of an obstetrician's sexual abuse of patients for more than 20 years.
In 2009, the body that accredits medical schools issued a new requirement: All medical schools must implement policies that help them attract and retain more diverse students. Failure to do so can lead to citations from this body, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and can affect their status as accredited institutions.
Adventist Health expects its Feather River Health Center on the Skyway will be ready to reopen soon, making it one of the first businesses to return to Paradise, while many of the company’s other services in the burned out town likely won’t be available for a year or more.
Laura Scutt feels lucky to be alive. Less than a month after she said she nearly died, the Groton woman is counting her blessings and thanking those who saved her life. "I remember I got out into the hallway and sat down on my walker and the next thing I came to was probably 20 people on top of me," she said. That was the moment she thought her life was over.