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Ghost authorship waning in top journals
On the academic publishing blog The Scholarly Kitchen, Phil Davis writes about the recent BMJ study indicating that ghost authorship…
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Ohio’s hospital transparency law under fire
Thanks are due to blogger and one-time hospital executive Paul Levy for drawing our attention to the Ohio hospital industry’s…
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Docs with Medtronic ties failed to disclose cancer case in trial report
In the latest installment of his ongoing investigation for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today, John Fauber reports his…
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Public hospitals, not nonprofits, shoulder burden of charity care
Writing in the Contra Costa Times, Sandy Kleffman reports that while nonprofit hospitals in the East Bay are given millions…
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Texas psych clinics take Medicare’s millions without oversight
The Houston Chronicle‘s Terri Langford reports that for-profit outpatient psychiatric clinics in the state, most located around Houston, are collecting…
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Reporters uncover Calif. chain’s systematic upcoding
In a follow-up to their lengthy California Watch investigation into sketchy billing practices at the state’s Prime Healthcare chain, Christina…
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Quake damage could cripple Calif. hospitals
In her series on earthquake preparedness at California hospitals, California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting senior reporter Deborah Schoch…
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String of errors made Stanford patient data public
In The New York Times, Kevin Sack traces the series of errors and lapses in judgement that led to a…
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Behind Oklahoma’s nation-leading access-to-care problems
In February, the New England Journal of Medicine ranked Oklahoma as the worst when it came to access to medical…
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Patient gets billed $58k for a dubious airlift
Reporting for WCNC-Charlotte , Stuart Watson starts with a $58,477 air ambulance-related bill and works backward to determine the bewildering…