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Clinical Care
FBI Investigating Newark Beth Israel's Transplant Program for Possible Fraud
ProPublica | December 02, 2019
The medical center's transplant director instructed staff to keep a vegetative patient alive, and not to discuss options such as...
Clinical Care
Despite Reforms, Problems Remain When Selecting Heart Transplant Candidates
John Commins | November 13, 2019
Study finds large discrepancies in the severity of illness among patients when they receive heart transplants.
Clinical Care
'It's Very Unethical': Audio Shows Hospital Kept Vegetative Patient on Life Support to Boost Survival Rates
ProPublica | October 03, 2019
Darryl Young suffered brain damage during a heart transplant at Newark Beth Israel and never woke up. Doctors kept him...
Clinical Care
Attempt to Revamp Waitlist Policy for Pediatric Heart Transplant Candidates Falls Short
John Commins | September 23, 2019
Children with two subtypes of cardiomyopathy ? hypertrophic or restrictive ? are now dying on the waitlist at a rate...
Clinical Care
PC Docs Face Obstacles Identifying, Managing Chronic Kidney Disease
John Commins | September 11, 2019
Primary care physicians complain about a lack of access to CKD clinical information systems, insufficient patient education materials.
Clinical Care
A 'No-Brainer'? Calls Grow For Medicare To Cover Anti-Rejection Drugs After Kidney Transplant
Kaiser Health News | July 17, 2019
Last week's announcement of a Trump administration overhaul of kidney care in the U.S. has reanimated an effort by federal...
Clinical Care
Mini-Biographies Help Clinicians Connect With Patients
Kaiser Health News | June 10, 2019
In a program called My Life, My Story, volunteer writers seek out vets at the VA hospitals, ask them all...
Clinical Care
Fatal Opioid Overdoses Provide 'Favorable' Organ Donors
John Commins | June 06, 2019
A new study challenges the rationale used to reject the use of vital organs harvested from deceased opioid users.
Finance
CMS: Decision on CAR-T Therapy Coverage Delayed But 'Forthcoming'
Steven Porter | May 20, 2019
The therapies have price tags as high as $425,000, which some say is a worthwhile investment.
Clinical Care
Changes Afoot for Kidney Disease Payment in Medicare
MedPage Today | March 05, 2019
HHS Secretary Alex Azar tells the annual Kidney Patient Summit that his department wants to encourage more transplants and home...
Clinical Care
Two New Lawsuits Allege Surgical Errors During Heart Transplants at St. Luke's in Houston
ProPublica | January 17, 2019
In one case, a patient claims a surgeon sewed a major vein closed, causing blood to back up in his...
Strategy
A hospital refused a new liver to a woman because she was undocumented. Then it found its heart.
The Washington Post | February 08, 2018
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