Sanford Health is throwing the concert to celebrate its new $494 million medical center in Fargo, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Minnesota, New York, and North Dakota.
UnitedHealth said it would fight the allegation, and a spokesman said, "We are confident our company and our employees complied with the government's Medicare Advantage program rules, and we have been transparent with CMS about our approach."
Joshua Denny, senior study author and a biomedical informatics professor at Vanderbilt University, says the findings show that EHRs can be used to improve and advance the treatment, understanding, and prevention of disease.
The report finds that not-for-profit and public hospitals' annual operating expenses grew by 7.5 percent last year, which outpaced a 6.6 percent increase in hospitals' annual operating revenues.
Few hospitals or businesses want to talk publicly about overdoses occurring within their buildings' bathrooms, but it's a growing problem in the Boston area—and a small number of facilities are quietly working to respond more effectively to individuals who misuse drugs in restrooms, Martha Bebinger reports for NPR's "Shots."
Nine out of 10 practices have "fired" a patient, but it's not because doctors are trying to cherry-pick their patients, according to a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine.
A controversial book and a flashy infomercial alleging that plant proteins called lectins cause obesity and poor health prompted The Atlantic's James Hamblin to examine at the ethics of selling dubious health claims.
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