Lori Mangum tenía 32 años cuando aparecieron tumores del tamaño de manzanas en su cabeza. Ahora, seis años y 10 cirugías después, el cáncer de piel desapareció. Pero su dolor sigue vivo, en la forma de una deuda médica. Incluso con seguro, Mangum pagó $36,000 de su bolsillo, cargos que surgieron del hospital, el cirujano, el anestesiólogo, la farmacia y […]
This data note looks at national and state-by-state Medicaid and CHIP enrollment data through March 2022. After declines in enrollment from 2017 through 2019, preliminary data for March 2022 show that total Medicaid/CHIP enrollment grew to 87.9 million, an increase of 16.7 million from enrollment in February 2020 (23.4%), right before the pandemic and when enrollment began to steadily increase […]
BY MIKE MAGEE Stable, civic societies are built upon human trust and confidence. If you were forced to rebuild a society, leveled by warfare and devastation, where would you begin? This is the question the U.S. Army faced at the close of WW II, specifically when it came to rebuilding Germany and Japan, hopefully into stable democracies. The Marshall Plan […]
Architecture, planning, and interior design firm FCA (Philadelphia) announced the retirement of president John Campbell after 36 years with the firm. Campbell joined FCA’s Philadelphia office as part of an exchange program between The Carpenters’ Company in Philadelphia and The Worshipful Company of Carpenters in London. The firm’s board has elected Aran McCarthy, principal of healthcare at FCA, as incoming […]
Dive Brief: Certain health insurers are required to start publicly disclosing in-network and out-of-network rates beginning Friday under a Trump-era price transparency rule finalized two years ago. Early signs look good for compliance. The rule went into effect in January 2022. But last summer, the CMS delayed enforcing this part of the price transparency rule, citing the “considerable time and […]
The DC Health Department ended its COVID-19 contract tracing program on Thursday, laying off 131 workers employed by the program. “The COVID-19 Contact Trace Force has been instrumental in helping slow the spread of COVID-19 in the District of Columbia,” DC Health told The Hill. “However with COVID infection levels coming down and easier access to at-home testing kits, the […]
To advance patient experience and health equity, a team at Northwell Health’s Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital (MEETH) identified an opportunity to reduce language as a barrier to care by improving language interpretation services. The cumbersome interpretation process required clinicians to access landline telephone devices locked behind nurse’s station, move them to pre-op/post-op patient bays, and ensure connectivity. Two-handset devices limited interaction […]
President Biden is injecting new vigor into the fight to protect abortion rights, seemingly nudged into action by criticism from within his own party about a lackluster response to date. Biden branded the Supreme Court’s decision last week to strike down the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling as “outrageous” and “destabilizing” during a Thursday news conference in Madrid. More […]
Yuki Noguchi, NPR News Lori Mangum was 32 when apple-size tumors sprouted on her head. Now — six years and 10 surgeries later — the skin cancer is gone. But her pain lives on, in the form of medical debt. Even with insurance, Mangum paid $36,000 out-of-pocket, charges that stemmed from the hospital, the surgeon, the anesthesiologist, the pharmacy, and […]
How do efficiently is care provided for patients at Veteran Affairs’ hospitals as compared to private hospitals? This is not an easy question to answer as the composition of patients differs between these hospitals. Even among dually-eligible individuals–those with both VA and commercial insurance–individuals treated at VA hospitals are generally more severely ill. To better […]