The shortage of nurses and doctors to take care of all the incoming COVID-19 patients is an even bigger issue than the limited ICU beds, experts told me. Doctors can warehouse patients temporarily in a hospital tent or empty building, but patients still need someone to come hook up their […]
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Hospitals Say They Will Publish Previously Secret Prices
Major hospital operators say they will comply with new rules to make public their prices for medical procedures starting Friday, exposing previously secret market rates in an industry that accounts for about 6% of the U.S. economy. The roughly $1.2 trillion hospital sector will begin posting prices publicly in the […]
Enforcement of Price Transparency Rules Puts Hospitals in a Fix
A federal appeals court in Washington affirmed the Trump administration policy, which requires hospitals to disclose secret rates that they negotiate with insurance companies beginning Jan1, 2021. This marks a major victory for one of President Donald Trump’s central health-policy initiatives to create more price transparency. This, is being put […]
Medicare has new tool to compare nursing homes, costs, hospitals. How good is it?
Suppose you or a loved one needed to get cardiac bypass surgery. Wouldn’t it be useful to be able to consult one online tool to find and evaluate a surgeon and hospital as well as a nursing home and home health services for rehabilitation after this surgery? The Centers for […]
Black women again turn to midwives, some fearing coronavirus in hospitals
Midwife Kiki Jordan examines TaNefer Camara during a routine postnatal visit about a week after the birth of her son Esangu. In centuries past, Black midwives often functioned as spiritual advisers and parenting teachers as well as birth attendants. (Rachel Scheier / California Healthline) From the moment she learned she […]