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Patients to Pay More for Out-of-Network Care
The nation’s largest health insurers have been accused of manipulating out-of-network care pricing, and now they are conning patients into significantly increased costs for this very coverage, according to The New York Times. Despite an agreement reached in 2009 to finance an objective database of doctor’s fees that patients and insurers nationally could rely on, [...]
Older Transplant Patients Getting Second Chance at Life
More patients over the age of 65 are being considered for heart transplants, patients who would have been routinely rejected just ten years ago, according to The New York Times. Thanks to voluntary guidelines issued by the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation in 2006, hospitals are opening up their transplant candidacy to older [...]
Harmful, Unnecessary Drugs Prescribed to Nursing Home Patients
People place their loved ones in nursing homes in order for them to receive proper care and medical attention, but what happens when these facilities are not closely monitored? More than one in five U.S. nursing homes are administering anti-psychotic drugs to people who do not have a condition that warrants their use, according to [...]
America’s Failing Healthcare System: Who is to Blame?
There is only one word to describe the American healthcare system, according to Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society: failure. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Dr. Brawley spoke out about the assertion that the U.S. has the best health care in the world: “It’s not a [...]
No Rhyme or Reason in Hospital Billing
Patients go to hospitals with the expectation to get better, not to be buried with exorbitant hospital bills for years to come. The latter, however, is becoming more and more of a reality; hospital charges are all over the map, according to a new study reported recently in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The New [...]
New Brain Injury Prevention Technology in the Works
Brain injury victims and Life Core Technologies, a Cleveland-based medical device company, recently got a major boost thanks to a $250,000 commitment by nonprofit venture development organization JumpStart Inc. to develop a patented disposable cerebral cooling system, according to the PR Newswire. The Excel Cerebral Cooling System device will act as a cervical collar that [...]
Prescription Drug Abuse Devastating State of Kentucky
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear and Attorney General Jack Conway have called for a bipartisan effort to pass House Bill 4, a law that takes aim at illegal pill mills and prescription drug abuse, an epidemic that kills about 1,000 Kentuckians each year, according to The Courier-Journal. “Every day that we delay strengthening our response to [...]
Ohio Medical Malpractice Claims Drop, But At What Cost?
The Columbus Dispatch reports that medical malpractice claims dropped by 41 percent between 2005 and 2010, largely impacted by Ohio’s tort-reform law. The law, signed by Gov. Bob Taft in 2003, may now be having a negative effect on those with legitimate claims, though; after physicians complained that the skyrocketing cost of malpractice insurance premiums [...]
Do State Employees Have Immunity from Medical Malpractice in Kentucky?
Yes, employees of the state have limited immunity based on their employment and all cases must be heard in the Board of Claims. There are caps on the damages available in cases against the state of Kentucky including a cap of $100,000 per claim and $250,000 per occurrence. Damages are also lowered by applying any [...]
What Kind of Injuries Can Trigger a Malpractice Case?
We recently looked at what is considered medical malpractice in Ohio. We now would like to look at the type of injuries that can trigger a malpractice case in our state. In the state of Ohio, medical malpractice can include claims for: birth injury caused during labor and delivery brain damage from a variety of [...]
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