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Employees Press HCA to Suspend Political Donations Following Capitol AttackEmployees say the hospital chain has donated to many GOP lawmakers implicated in last week's turmoil, including Sen. Josh Hawley,...
Covid-19
Hospitals' Rocky Rollout of Covid Vaccine Sparks Questions of FairnessThe initial rollout has been uneven at best because of a lack of a federal strategy on how it should...
Memorial Sloan Kettering Gave Top Doctor $1.5M After He Was Forced to Resign Over Conflicts of Interest
Dr. José Baselga resigned as chief medical officer after payments he received from for-profit health care companies came to light...
Covid-19
With Vaccine Delivery Imminent, Nursing Homes Must Make a Strong Pitch to ResidentsLong-term care residents' participation in the fastest and most extensive vaccination effort in U.S. history is clouded by a significant...
Clinical Care
Tethered to the MachineFor years, JaMarcus Crews tried to get a new kidney, but corporate healthcare stood in the way. He needed dialysis...
Strategy
Dialysis Industry Spends Millions, Emerges as Power Player in California PoliticsMost of the money the industry spent from Jan. 1, 2017, through Nov. 30, 2020, funded the defeat of two...
Strategy
Purdue Pharma to Pay $8B to Settle Criminal, Civil Charges for Key Role in Opioid EpidemicThe settlement does not release from further criminal charges the Sackler family, owners of Purdue, nor any of company's executives...
Clinical Care
'All You Want Is to Be Believed': The Impacts of Unconscious Bias in Health CarePeople of color are disproportionately affected by the coronavirus. It is not merely because they're more likely to have front-line...
Strategy
'Trumpcare' Does Not Exist. Nevertheless Facebook and Google Cash In on Misleading Ads for 'Garbage' Health Insurance.The thousands of "Trumpcare" ads Facebook and Google have published show that the shadowy "lead generation" economy has a happy...
Strategy
UVA Health Still Squeezing Money From Patients — By Seizing Their Home EquityUVA Health continues to rely on thousands of property liens to collect old bills.
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Merit Medical Systems to Pay $18M to Settle Kickback AllegationsUtah-based MSSI for more than six years allegedly paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to healthcare providers in the form...
Clinical Care
Does the Federal Health Information Privacy Law Protect President Trump?The president's physicians would not disclose the results of the president's lung scans, invoking HIPAA to selectively provide intel on...