For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections.
Category: Hospitals
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Even Grave Errors at Rehab Hospitals Go Unpenalized and Undisclosed
For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections.
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Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals
Limits on travel and visa appointments have delayed or prevented foreign doctors from entering the country for jobs set to begin in weeks.
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A.I. Was Coming for Radiologists’ Jobs. So Far, They’re Just More Efficient.
Experts predicted that artificial intelligence would steal radiology jobs. But at the Mayo Clinic, the technology has been more friend than foe.
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Chinese Hospital Bankruptcies Soar Amid Financial Strains
Still recovering from heavy spending during the pandemic, hospitals are squeezed by a slumping economy and government efforts to curb health care spending.
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In Hospitals and Hospices, ‘Music as Care’ Offers a New Kind of Comfort
A violinist plays for her father. A singer takes requests. In hospitals and hospices, bedside performers offer a new kind of care.
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Life Sentence for Kolkata Hospital Rape and Murder
The police had sought the death penalty in a horrific but familiar crime. Its handling by the local authorities had outraged the nation.
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Insulin Prices Dropped. But Some Poor Patients Are Paying More.
A law that coaxed companies to lower the price of drugs came with a little-known consequence: smaller discounts for low-income health clinics.
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How a Company Makes Millions Off a Hospital Program Meant to Help the Poor
A private business has helped supercharge a controversial federal drug program. Patients and insurers have been left with big bills.
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Health Tips for International Travel: What to Know About Insurance and Medicine
What medications should you bring, what insurance do you need and how do you find a doctor? Here are health care tips if you’re traveling internationally.
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1 in 4 Child Deaths After E.R. Visits Are Preventable, Study Finds
If every emergency room in the United States were fully prepared to treat children, thousands of lives would be saved and the cost would be $11.84 or less per child, researchers found.
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Veterans Dept. Investigating Acadia Healthcare for Insurance Fraud
Several federal agencies are investigating whether the large chain of psychiatric hospitals held patients without medical justification.