The historic Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade’s constitutional right to an abortion will create a seismic shift in the healthcare industry, according to providers, payers, healthcare organizations and legal experts. Many provider groups protested the 6-3 decision, with the American Medical Association saying it was “deeply disturbed” by the court overturning Roe, which was precedent in the U.S. […]
FILE – Protesters fill the street in front of the Supreme Court after the court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in Washington, June 24, 2022. Public opinion on abortion is nuanced, but polling shows broad support for Roe and for abortion rights. Seventy percent of U.S. adults said in a May AP-NORC poll that the Supreme Court should leave […]
BY KIM BELLARD Well, they did it. We had a warning they were going to do it, from the leaked opinion in May, but it still was a blow to well over half the country when the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in its ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. It didn’t rule that abortion was […]
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled for doctors who face criminal charges for overprescribing powerful pain medication in a case arising from the opioid addiction crisis. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court that prosecutors must prove that doctors knew they were illegally prescribing powerful pain drugs in violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act. The ruling came as the […]
Dive Brief: Sixty-six U.S. hospitals received the highest marks for being socially responsible in an index from the Lown Institute that factors metrics such as patient outcomes, value of care and health equity, the nonpartisan think tank said Tuesday. The top-ranked providers, earning an A, were selected from more than 3,600 institutions. Many of the most socially responsible hospitals are […]
A Detroit-area prosecutor said on Tuesday that she would not be charging abortion providers in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. “I don’t see that I have a choice. I am not going to prosecute physicians for providing health care and needed procedures to patients. I’m not going to do that,” Oakland County, Mich. Prosecutor Karen […]
Data mining from electronic medical records for clinical registries seems like the ideal task to insert artificial intelligence (AI) technology — automating data mining and freeing up clinically important resources. However, replacing human data abstractors with AI alone has resulted in less-than-desired accuracy and limited confidence in the results. It might be time to rethink the approach and instead leverage […]
June 28, 2022 Ariane and Samantha Buck of Arizona have had their lives upended by $50,000 in medical debt. They rely on family to provide Christmas gifts for their three children. But Ariane Buck was still surprised when his doctor refused to see him because he owed a balance of less than $100 to the practice. “That’s just not right,” […]
The personal care industry in the United States is full of wonder. Where its home health counterparts are generally built similarly, mostly tied predominantly to Medicare as a payer, the personal care market is full of companies with vastly different strategies. There are franchises, non-franchises, those that lean toward private-pay and those that lean toward government pay. It’s also a […]
(NewsNation) — The pills used to perform medically induced abortions are shaping up to be at the center of the next fight in the U.S. Several states have already banned and criminalized abortion following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Friday that overturned Roe v. Wade. The landmark case had previously secured abortion as a constitutional right. Now, as the decision […]