Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center in Winchester, Nevada, submitted Medicare claims for rehabilitative services that did not comply with Medicare billing requirements,...Read More »
Word-of-mouth recommendations from family and friends remains one of the more common ways elder patients select their physician, according to survey data of adults aged 50 to 80 years reported in Annals of Internal Medicine. The survey data shows online physician ratings and reviews...Read More »
In a report by the Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, and Japanese Heart Failure Society published in the...Read More »
Studies have shown that more than one-third of adults delayed or skipped medical care because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The advent of greater telehealth options, however,...Read More »
A new report written by researchers at the Urban Institute found that differences in the quality of hospitals that Black and white patients have...Read More »
Telehealth accounted for 24% of outpatient consultations among privately insured, working-age adults during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic, up from 0.3% for the same period in 2019,...Read More »
A Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) report has found that because of the year-long battle with the COVID-19 pandemic, many hospitals have found themselves in “survival mode.” Contending with...Read More »