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What’s Driving Healthcare Consolidation? The Answer May Surprise You by Joyce Frieden , Washington Editor, MedPage Today May 21, 2024   WASHINGTON — What is driving consolidation in healthcare? The answer is: consolidation, Erin Fuse Brown, JD, MPH, said Tuesday.   “If all of the other competitors in the market are getting bigger, then in […]

California health care minimum wage – New estimates for impacts on workers, patients, and the state budget By Laurel Lucia, Enrique Lopezlira and Ken Jacobs February 20, 2024   In October 2023, Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill 525, which will increase the minimum wage for health care workers to $25 per hour in the coming

GAZA’S STOLEN HEALERS: Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention By Kavitha Chekuru May 24 2024   IT’S BEEN TWO months since Osaid Alser has heard from his cousin, Khaled Al Serr, a surgeon at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis.   Before late March, they had been in

A tribe in Maine is using opioid settlement funds on a sweat lodge to treat addiction By Aneri Pattani, Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez May 12, 2024   PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Outside the Mi’kmaq Nation’s health department sits a dome-shaped tent, built by hand from saplings and covered in black canvas. It’s one of several sweat

Stranded in the ER, Seniors Await Hospital Care and Suffer Avoidable Harm By Judith Graham MAY 6, 2024   Every day, the scene plays out in hospitals across America: Older men and women lie on gurneys in emergency room corridors moaning or suffering silently as harried medical staff attend to crises.   Even when physicians

A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her. by Patrick Rucker, The Capitol Forum, and David Armstrong, ProPublica April 29, 2024   In late 2020, Dr. Debby Day said her bosses at Cigna gave her a stark warning. Work faster, or the company

Doctors vs. hospitals: A bid to regulate hedge funds is dividing California medical groups By Ryan Sabalow April 30, 2024; Updated May 1, 2024   The most influential players in the health industry are fighting over a controversial plan to let the attorney general block hedge funds and private equity firms from acquiring health care

Dobbs Has Created a Health Care Apocalypse By Abby Vesoulis May 10, 2024   Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung spent four years in medical school, four years in an OB-GYN residency, and three years in a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship learning how to care for high-risk pregnant patients. In her decade-plus of medical training, she learned that in