by Advize Admin | Aug 6, 2021 | Healthcare
Tennova Healthcare-Lebanon doesn’t exist anymore as a hospital. But it still sued Hope Cantwell. A knock came on the door of Cantwell’s Nashville, Tennessee, apartment early this year. She said she hadn’t been vaccinated against covid-19 yet and wasn’t answering the...
by Advize Admin | Aug 6, 2021 | COVID19
America’s covid-19 vaccination rate is around 60% for ages 12 and up. That’s not enough to reach so-called herd immunity, and in states like Missouri — where a number of counties have vaccination rates under 25% — hospitals are overwhelmed...
by Advize Admin | Aug 6, 2021 | Commentary
When things don’t work out with your treatment, you can cry to your doctor or insurance, you can complain, but nothing will change. Similar to sitting on the tarmac for close to three hours because people were not available to unload bags from your plane. I should...
by Advize Admin | Jul 30, 2021 | Retro Fraud Podcast
Join former HHS-OIG Special Agent and Advize Director of Litigation, FWA Support, Eric Rubenstein, as he engages with fellow retired HHS-OIG Senior Special Agent Peggy Glynn. Peggy spent over 28 years in the Buffalo, NY Field Office. Eric and Peggy tackle a discussion...
by Advize Admin | Jul 30, 2021 | Healthcare
Three years ago, pharma giant Pfizer paid $24 million to settle federal allegations that it was paying kickbacks and inflating sales by reimbursing Medicare patients for out-of-pocket medication costs. By making prohibitively expensive medicine essentially...
by Advize Admin | Jul 30, 2021 | Healthcare Facepalm
It was a race in Pennsylvania that could have sent cyclist Phil Gaimon to the Tokyo Olympics; instead, a serious crash landed the Californian in two hospitals on the East Coast. Gaimon knows accidents are, unfortunately, part of the sport. He had retired from...
by Advize Admin | Jul 30, 2021 | COVID19
Upon first inspection, the mutations in the highly contagious delta covid variant don’t look that worrisome. For starters, delta has fewer genetic changes than earlier versions of the coronavirus. “When people saw that the epidemic in India was driven by delta, they...
by Advize Admin | Jul 23, 2021 | Healthcare, Providers
By JoNel Aleccia As a deadly heat wave scorched the Pacific Northwest last month, overwhelming hospital emergency rooms in a region unaccustomed to triple-digit temperatures, doctors resorted to a grim but practical tool to save lives: human body bags filled with ice...
by Advize Admin | Jul 23, 2021 | Healthcare
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Getting clean drinking water cost Ignacio Padilla his health insurance. The World War II veteran needed to repay the loan for the water pump installed on his 1-acre property in rural Tulare County, the only source of water to his mobile home. He...
by Advize Admin | Jul 23, 2021 | Healthcare
ST. LOUIS — The day after Missouri Gov. Mike Parson finished his bicentennial bus tour to drum up tourism to the state in mid-July, Chicago issued a travel advisory warning about visiting Missouri. Earlier this summer, as covid-19 case counts began to tick...
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