AvatarB-listDoctor no longer allowed to practice after branding patients' livers with his initialsverified_publisherCBS News - By Caitlin O'KaneA doctor in the U.K. has been removed from the country's medical register for branding patients' livers with his initials. The incidents occurred in …
AvatarB-listMany surprise medical bills are now illegalverified_publisherAxios - Bob HermanEffective today, federal law bans many types of out-of-network medical bills and puts the onus on doctors and health insurance companies to resolve …
AvatarB-listHealth insurers are threatening not to cover some patients’ ER billsverified_publisherVox - Dylan ScottUnited Healthcare, the largest insurer in the US, recently announced a new policy it said would help hold down health care costs: It would review claims for emergency department care, opening up the possibility that the company might deny coverage if a patient’s medical needs were not actually an …
AvatarB-listThe $2 Drug That Millions of Patients Aren’t Being Told AboutMedium - Kat Kennedy“I couldn’t open or close my eyes without pain. It was like salt or shards of glass… all I could do was go to bed,” said 71-year-old Beth, who was …
AvatarB-listKentucky mom alleges hospital workers missed her cancer — then covered up their mistakeNBC News - Olivia SolonKim Johnson was nervous as she sat down at her dining room table in January 2015, clutching an unopened letter from the radiology department at Fleming County Hospital in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. Breast cancer had killed Johnson’s mother years earlier, a painfully slow death that took a toll on her …
AvatarB-listWealthy and connected get antibody COVID treatments unavailable to most Americansverified_publisherAxios - Caitlin OwensPresident Trump and his friends have received coronavirus antibody treatments that are so scarce that some states and hospitals are giving them out …
