Zainab Mughal, the two-year-old patient, still needs at least two more donors to lead a healthy life, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Florida, New Jersey, and Texas.
After a serious bike crash, Nina Dang received an ED bill for more than $24,000, of which her insurer covered only $3,800. The reason, as Sarah Kliff reports for Vox, is that the ED wasn't in Dang's insurance plan network—or in any private insurance network at all.
Drugmakers are facing a series of lawsuits alleging that their "nurse educator" programs, which offer guidance to patients on how to use complicated medications, inappropriately "blur the line between caregiver and marketer," Ed Silverman reports for STAT News.
The American Hospital Association's 2019 Hospital Statistics report found that hospitals' net outpatient revenue in 2017 was $472 billion, while net inpatient revenue totaled almost $498 billion.
The Department of Justice has filed a motion to appeal a federal judge's ruling striking down the Affordable Care Act because it does not agree with the entirety of the judge's ruling.
A report from CDC's National Center for Health Statistics shows U.S. adults on average weigh more than at any point since 1999, but they have not grown taller.
