by Advize Admin | Aug 19, 2022 | Business, Healthcare
Terri Logan practices music with daughter Amari Johnson at their home in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Logan’s newfound freedom from medical debt is reviving a long-dormant dream to sing on stage. (JUAN DIEGO REYES FOR KHN AND NPR) Soon after giving birth to a daughter...
by Advize Admin | Aug 12, 2022 | Business, Healthcare
For decades, the drug industry has yelled bloody murder each time Congress considered a regulatory measure that threatened its profits. But the hyperbole reached a new pitch in recent weeks as the Senate moved to adopt modest drug pricing negotiation measures in the...
by Advize Admin | Jun 17, 2022 | Healthcare, Providers
MEXICO, Mo. — When the new corporate owners of two rural hospitals suddenly announced they would stop admitting patients one Friday in March, Kayla Schudel, a nurse, stood resolute in the nearly empty lobby of Audrain Community Hospital: “You’ll be seen; the ER...
by Advize Admin | Mar 18, 2022 | FWA
Last spring, Lags Medical Centers, a sprawling chain of pain clinics serving more than 20,000 patients in California, abruptly shuttered amid a cloaked state investigation into “credible allegations of fraud.” Tens of thousands of patients were left scrambling for...
by Advize Admin | Mar 18, 2022 | Healthcare
Patients are no longer required to pay for out-of-network care given without their consent when they receive treatment at hospitals covered by their health insurance since a federal law took effect at the start of this year. But the law’s protections against the...
by Advize Admin | Feb 25, 2022 | Healthcare
A congressional effort to fix the nation’s deteriorating mail service may come at the expense of an even bigger and more complicated problem: Medicare solvency. The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 would help shore up post office finances by ending the...
by Advize Admin | Oct 8, 2021 | Healthcare
Anthem Blue Cross, the country’s second-biggest health insurance company, is behind on billions of dollars in payments owed to hospitals and doctors because of onerous new reimbursement rules, computer problems and mishandled claims, say hospital officials in multiple...
by Advize Admin | May 21, 2021 | FWA
In 1993, Dr. David Silber, a dentist now practicing in Plano, Texas, was fired from the first dental clinic he worked for. He’d been assigned to a patient another dentist had scheduled for a crown preparation — a metal or porcelain cap for a broken or decayed tooth....
by Advize Admin | Mar 19, 2021 | Healthcare
Granted our high school intern is smarter than most and has a brain for economics but still, we like to see what the younger generation thinks about the cost of healthcare…By Sophie Kowalewski Taking care of your body seems like an easy task, however, it’s not...
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...
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