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A Progress Check on Hospital Price Transparency
Michelle Andrews For decades, U.S. hospitals have frequently stonewalled people who wished to know ahead of time how significantly their treatment would price tag. Now which is transforming — but there is a vigorous discussion over what hospitals are disclosing. Underneath a federal rule in outcome given that 2021, hospitals nationwide have been laboring to post a mountain of knowledge on-line that spells out their costs for each individual support, drug, and product they offer, including the true costs they’ve negotiated with insurers and the amounts that money-having to pay individuals would be billed. They’ve finished so begrudgingly and only following dropping a lawsuit that challenged the federal rule. How…
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‘The People’s Hospital’ doctor treats Houston’s uninsured and undocumented : Shots
Paramedics at Ben Taub General Hospital speed a patient with a gunshot wound to the trauma team for further care. Ben Taub is the largest safety-net hospital in Houston. Gregory Smith/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Gregory Smith/Corbis via Getty Images Paramedics at Ben Taub General Hospital speed a patient with a gunshot wound to the trauma team for further care. Ben Taub is the largest safety-net hospital in Houston. Gregory Smith/Corbis via Getty Images As a doctor in a so-called “safety-net” hospital, Ricardo Nuila’s daily practice looks quite different from that of his colleagues who work in private or not-for-profit hospitals. That’s because safety-net hospitals treat everyone…
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Secrecy shrouds troubled state psychiatric hospital in Montana : Shots
Jennifer Mitchell thumbs through her husband’s medical records from his time at the Montana State Hospital. Records show doctors took Mitchell’s husband off some of his congestive heart failure medications. Mitchell says she was never consulted. Aaron Bolton/Montana Public Radio hide caption toggle caption Aaron Bolton/Montana Public Radio Jennifer Mitchell thumbs through her husband’s medical records from his time at the Montana State Hospital. Records show doctors took Mitchell’s husband off some of his congestive heart failure medications. Mitchell says she was never consulted. Aaron Bolton/Montana Public Radio BUTTE, Mont. — Jennifer Mitchell remembered getting a call nearly two years ago that her 69-year-old husband, Bill, had crashed his car…
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China Medical University Hospital ranks global third in 2022 HIMSS Digital Health Indicator
China Professional medical University Medical center in Taichung, Taiwan has established its capability in electronic wellness by scoring very well above the world-wide normal in the most current HIMSS Electronic Wellness Indicator. The DHI actions an organisation’s development in building a digital health ecosystem in 4 dimensions: predictive analytics, interoperability, predictive analytics, man or woman-enabled wellness and governance and workforce. Dependent on HIMSS’s assessment, CMUH scored 348/400 for the DHI, which was previously mentioned the worldwide median score of 170 and the Asia-Pacific median rating of 163 in 2022. The clinic did pretty well in enabling interoperability although it proved to be great in the places of man or woman-enabled…
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Doctors at HCA hospital in Florida say patient care has suffered from cost cutting
On Dec. 7, 2021, more than a dozen surgeons convened a meeting at their hospital, HCA Florida Bayonet Point in Hudson, Florida. Their concerns about patient safety at the 290-bed acute care facility owned by HCA Healthcare Inc. had been intensifying for months and the doctors had requested the meeting to push management to address their complaints. Unsanitary surgical instruments, inadequate monitoring of ICU patients, an overflowing emergency department, anesthesiology errors that resulted in patients waking up while in surgery — all were allegations ripe for discussion. The meeting soon took an extraordinary turn, four doctors who attended told NBC News. With a hospital administration official on hand to hear the answers, the group was asked two questions.…
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A health insurance alternative left a pastor with a big hospital bill : Shots
Jeff and Kareen King received a hospital bill for $160,000 a few weeks after Jeff had a procedure to restore his heart rhythm. Bram Sable-Smith/KHN hide caption toggle caption Bram Sable-Smith/KHN Jeff and Kareen King received a hospital bill for $160,000 a few weeks after Jeff had a procedure to restore his heart rhythm. Bram Sable-Smith/KHN Kareen King calls it “the ultimate paradox”: The hospital that saved her husband Jeff’s heart also broke it. What Happened Jeff King, of Lawrence, Kan., needed his heart rhythm restored to normal with a procedure called an ablation — sooner rather than later, his doctor said. Jeff asked the hospital for a cost estimate,…
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