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Marshall Allen, a Tenacious Health Care Journalist, Dies at 52 by Michael Grabell May 21, 2024   Marshall Allen, a former ProPublica investigative reporter who relentlessly took on the U.S. health care system and fought for the rights of patients facing unfair medical bills, died Sunday at a hospital in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He […]

Revisiting ‘Left Without Being Seen’ Metrics in the ED by Gregory Jasani, MD May 20, 2024   The “left without being seen” (LWBS) metric hangs around the neck of every emergency department (ED). Among the many numbers and metrics that impact our day-to-day work as emergency medicine physicians, few are as important or problematic as

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