by Advize Admin | Sep 3, 2021 | Healthcare
In the rural northeastern corner of Missouri, Scotland County Hospital has been so low on staff that it sometimes had to turn away patients amid a surge in covid-19 cases. The national covid staffing crunch means CEO Dr. Randy Tobler has hired more travel nurses to...
by Advize Admin | May 14, 2021 | Healthcare
Pamela Valfer needed multiple covid tests after repeatedly visiting the hospital last fall to see her mother, who was being treated for cancer. Beds there were filling with covid patients. Valfer heard the tests would be free. So, she was surprised when the testing...
by Advize Admin | Apr 9, 2021 | COVID19
Last May, Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest nonprofit hospital system in Texas, laid off 1,200 employees and furloughed others as it braced for the then-novel coronavirus to spread. The cancellation of lucrative elective procedures as the hospital pivoted...
by Advize Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Fraud, Healthcare, Payers
Should a patient who suffers a medical condition as a result of their treatment have to pay for the resulting treatment? Should the financial responsibility go to their insurance or the facility that caused the problem? Before everyone starts hitting the comment...
by Advize Admin | Jun 6, 2016 | FWA, Healthcare
On May 31, 2016 the US Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey published a press release regarding the latest settlement for health care fraud in the state involving Saint Michael’s Medical Center and four individual physicians who submitted false claims for...
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