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Mistaken identity leads to big hospital bill mix-up : Shots
In 2013, Grace E. Elliott spent a night in a hospital in Florida for a kidney infection that was treated with antibiotics. Eight years later, she got a large bill from the health system that bought the hospital. This bill was for an unrelated surgical procedure she didn’t need and never received. It was a case of mistaken identity, she knew, but proving that wasn’t easy. Shelby Knowles for KHN hide caption toggle caption Shelby Knowles for KHN In 2013, Grace E. Elliott spent a night in a hospital in Florida for a kidney infection that was treated with antibiotics. Eight years later, she got a large bill from the…
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Early exit for Texas, Oklahoma to SEC could be aided by future nonconference games at Big 12 stadiums
With conversations increasing around the possibility of Texas and Oklahoma leaving the Big 12 for the SEC earlier than scheduled, the steps needed to facilitate such a move are coming into focus. It is likely any deal involving the Longhorns and Sooners joining the SEC a year early in 2024 would include Big 12 rightsholders being made whole with a series of future nonconference games involving those teams within the league’s footprint, industry sources tell CBS Sports. Presently, the Big 12 grant of rights expires in 2025, freeing Texas and Oklahoma to join the SEC that summer. However, discussions about Texas and Oklahoma receiving an early exit from the Big…
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Telehealth startups sent sensitive health data to big tech companies
Open the website of Workit Health, and the path to treatment starts with a simple intake form: Are you in danger of harming yourself or others? If not, what’s your current opioid and alcohol use? How much methadone do you use? Within minutes, patients looking for online treatment for opioid use and other addictions can complete the assessment and book a video visit with a provider licensed to prescribe suboxone and other drugs. But what patients probably don’t know is that Workit was sending their delicate, even intimate, answers about drug use and self-harm to Facebook. advertisement A joint investigation by STAT and The Markup of 50 direct-to-consumer telehealth companies…
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Pac-12 media rights deal on hold as league awaits resolution on UCLA’s Big Ten status from regents meeting
The Pac-12’s long, winding road toward long-term security was never supposed to last this long. It is mid-December, and the league still must wait on the conclusion of Wednesday’s University of California system regents meeting to proceed in its media rights negotiations. Almost six months after news broke of USC and UCLA departing for the Big Ten in 2024, the league still has not reconfigured. While it is considered almost a formality by some that UCLA will ultimately be allowed to join the Big Ten, the regents’ concerns dragging the process out this long has added a layer of skittishness to the proceedings. “It has significantly impacted the timeline,” Pac-12…
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Free speech advocate speaks out after 2020 emails included in Twitter Files warned of Big Tech ‘bloodbath’
Exceptional: One particular of the heads of a technological innovation coverage lobbying group is talking out following files released as aspect of Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s “Twitter Documents” dump showed his group warned Twitter that a “massacre” awaited the company in Congress over its suppression of the Hunter Biden notebook story. Inside e-mail lately made public by Musk and described by independent journalist Matt Taibbi as section of the considerably publicized “Twitter Data files” aimed at providing transparency on Twitter censorship in the earlier showed messages from NetChoice Vice President and Common Counsel Carl Szabo warning Twitter community policy main Lauren Culbertson that his group polled 12 associates of Congress…
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Pac-12 in danger of eventual collapse as Big Ten considers further expansion, Big 12 interest looms
The Big Ten’s continued pursuit of four Pac-12 schools is leading to concern that another round of expansion could collapse the Pac-12, industry sources tell CBS Sports. This as Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren continues to seek an offer from Amazon, or potentially another partner, for additional Big Ten football media rights revenue. An offer deemed substantial enough would likely convince Big Ten presidents that California, Oregon, Stanford and Washington would be valuable additions to the league from the Pac-12. That figure is believed to be less than $100 million annually. If the Big Ten makes such a move, it would almost certainly increase the likelihood the Big 12 is…
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