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FDA Repeatedly Rejected Safety Claims Made by Philips After the CPAP Recall but Waited to Alert the Public, Emails Show
As Philips reassured patients that millions of recalled machines were safe, internal emails show federal regulators privately told the company...
Revenue Cycle
MultiCare Faces Fraud Allegations in DOJ, Washington State Complaint
The allegations stem from a whistleblower lawsuit filed against a former neurosurgeon at Deaconness Hospital in Spokane.
CMO
Women and Minorities Bear the Brunt of Medical Misdiagnosis
Women and racial and ethnic minorities are 20% to 30% more likely than white men to experience a misdiagnosis.
Payer
Rising Malpractice Premiums Price Small Clinics Out of Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
Nearly half the states have banned medication or surgical treatment for transgender youth.
Payer
Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Have Found a New Home in the Insurance Industry
Doctors working for health insurers can rule on 10,000 or more requests for care a year. At least a dozen...
CMO
Columbia University to Set Up $100M Fund for Patients of Predator OB-GYN
After ProPublica and New York Magazine revealed how the school ignored warnings about Robert Hadden, Columbia announced a number of...
CMO
Unstoppable: This Doctor Has Been Investigated at Every Level of Government. How Is He Still Practicing?
Medical boards, a health department and even federal investigators have scrutinized Dr. James McGuckin's vascular clinics. Today he still practices,...
CMO
Inside the Preventable Deaths That Happened Within a Prominent Transplant Center
James Eason, MD, who earned acclaim by operating on Steve Jobs, led the transplant center named in his honor at...
CEO
Will a 'National Patient Safety Board,' Modeled After the NTSB, Actually Fly?
Stakeholders warn that public reporting would compromise data integrity by leading hospitals to scrub records to hide bad events.
Payer
In the 'Wild West' of Outpatient Vascular Care, Doctors Can Reap Huge Payments as Patients Risk Life and Limb
CMS data suggests that from 2017 to 2021 90 physicians billed for more than a third of all procedures and...
CMO
AMA: Nearly One-Third of Physicians Have Been Sued for Medical Liability Claims
"Even the most highly qualified and competent physicians in the U.S. may face a medical liability claim in their careers,"...
Payer
Jury Finds ENT Doc Guilty of Reusing Disposable Sinuplasty Devices, Related Fraud Charges
Anita Louise Jackson, MD, faces up to 20 years in prison when she is sentenced later this year.