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Clinical Care
Despite Reforms, Problems Remain When Selecting Heart Transplant Candidates
Study finds large discrepancies in the severity of illness among patients when they receive heart transplants.
Strategy
Life Spine, Top Execs, to Pay $6M to Settle Kickback Allegations
The company 'aggressively recruited' dozens of surgeons with the potential to use a high volume of the company's products and...
Texas Healthcare Execs Guilty in $150M Hospice Scam
The schemers falsely told patients they had only six months to live in a ploy to collect hospice payments.
Clinical Care
Federal Judge Vacates 'Conscience Rule'
Trump administration's healthcare agenda delivered another setback in court.
Clinical Care
End-of-Life Care Laws Were Supposed to Help New Yorkers. They Don't Always Work.
New York state has laws governing what healthcare providers are obligated to provide to patients and families facing end-of-life decisions....
Clinical Care
Medicare Fraud Carries Heavy Price Tag for Scammed Patients
Medicare patients treated by clinicians who are later banned for fraud and abuse are 14% to 17% more likely to...
Strategy
Judge Vacates 2016 Rule That Banned Healthcare Discrimination Against Transgender Patients
The decision comes as the Trump administration seeks to supplant the Obama-era rule with a version that excludes gender identity...
Finance
Patients Eligible For Charity Care Instead Get Big Bills
Nonprofit hospitals admit they sent $2.7 billion in bills over the course of a year to patients who probably qualified...
Clinical Care
Feds to Investigate Hospital Alleged to Have Kept Vegetative Patient Alive to Game Transplant Survival Rates
Spurred by a ProPublica investigation, CMS will carry out an inquiry.
Clinical Care
Why Hospitals Are Getting Into The Housing Business
Hospitals cannot discharge patients if they have no safe place to go, so patients who are homeless, frail, living alone,...
Clinical Care
'It's Very Unethical': Audio Shows Hospital Kept Vegetative Patient on Life Support to Boost Survival Rates
Darryl Young suffered brain damage during a heart transplant at Newark Beth Israel and never woke up. Doctors kept him...
Strategy
Transgender Discrimination Lawsuit Against Dignity Health Reinstated
An appeals court ruled the Catholic-affiliated health system can be sued for allegedly discriminating against a patient on the basis...