Tag
business of health care
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Discount drug pricing: Cutting through the controversy
Independent journalist Lola Butcher reports that debate about the government’s 340B Drug Pricing Program continues to build as the program expands. “Like…
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N.C. hospital garnishes patient tax refunds to collect debts
Joseph Neff, reporting for North Carolina’s News & Observer, explains how UNC Health Care is taking advantage of “a little-known…
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Standalone emergency rooms generate profit, controversy
When a local hospital opened up a free-standing emergency room in a part of the county traditionally served by its…
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N.C. series explains high cost of cancer drugs
As part of an ongoing series on the cost of health care in The Charlotte Observer and The News &…
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Financial documents help explain independent, not-for-profit hospital’s challenges
In the Tampa Bay Times, Letitia Stein writes about a local independent not-for-profit hospital that’s struggling financially and may be…
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Special, easy-to-get medical credit cards seduce providers, desperate patients
The (Bergen County) Record‘s Lindy Washburn reports on health care professionals who offer specialized credit cards which can cover certain…
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Cash discounts can make it cheaper to not file insurance claims
After covering health care for so many years, I don’t often come across a story that makes me say, “Wow,…
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Seattle hospitals love building costly ERs
The Puget Sound emergency room construction boom is in full swing, and Seattle Times reporter Carol Ostrom has taken a…
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KevinMD: Media is key to curbing MRI overuse
On the MedPage Today outlet KevinMD.com, Dr. Kevin Pho himself writes that media coverage of the overuse of certain screening…
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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…