For years, Spyros Panos seemed like a successful orthopedic surgeon, seeing dozens of patients a day and bringing in millions of dollars in fees for his suburban New York medical group. In fact, he was inflating charges and billing for surgeries he didn’t perform, perpetrating a years-long fraud that culminated in a guilty plea on a single count in federal court in 2013.
he health care delivery system in Maryland is among the best in the country, with nationally ranked hospitals and an abundance of highly trained health professionals across the state. As such, most Marylanders have access to great health care. However, for some Marylanders our health care system does not work well and access to health care is challenging.
HOUSTON, Texas - Jim Allison, PhD, chair of Immunology and executive director of the immunotherapy platform at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for launching an effective new way to attack cancer by treating the immune system rather than the tumor.
Cabell Huntington Hospital is continuing to work toward more positive outcomes in detecting and treating sepsis, a potentially life-threatening complication that can affect patients. Sepsis occurs when the body's response to infection causes inflammation to tissues and organs, which can trigger a cascade of changes that can damage multiple organ systems, causing them to fail.
New York hospitals slightly reduced their readmission rates last year, but the state still has the nation's highest overall 30-day readmission rate, according to a new Kaiser Health News analysis. Just over 16 percent of patients who were released from New York hospitals wound up back there within a month according to admission data taken from the 12 months ending in June 2017.
Close to 40 percent of enrollees in the retiree health-care plan have either delayed medical care or passed on a prescription due to cost, according to a survey by eHealth.com. Deductibles and copays are the top worry among enrollees, followed by the cost of dental and vision coverage.