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The medical center needs to raise $500,000 by the end of this week to pay off overdue health benefits costs, the CEO said, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.
When a drugmaker seeks approval for a new drug from FDA, it must prove that its medication is safe and effective—but it doesn't have to answer an equally critical question: Is the drug more effective than other ways of treating the same condition? Writing for the New York Times' "The Upshot," Aaron Carroll explains why such a simple, practical question so often goes unexplored in medicine.
A Wall Street Journal analysis shows that dozens of contracts between hospitals and insurers include secret, restrictive terms such as "anti-steering" clauses that limit insurers' ability to design low-cost health plans for major employers, such as Walmart and Home Depot.
Geisinger, Intermountain Healthcare, and more than 30 other leading health care organizations are teaming up to reduce diagnostic errors—a leading cause of patient safety issues.
For the survey, Medscape asked 11,549 physicians about the factors important to them when selecting a hospital for treatment for themselves or a loved one, as well as the hospital they would select for themselves or a family member for 10 conditions and procedures.
At a time in medicine where physicians, hospitals, and reporters are routinely touting the lifesaving aspects of medical advances, such as precision medicine, one doctor stands out: taking to Twitter and physician conferences to bombastically counter what he calls "hype" in medicine, Richard Harris reports for NPR's "Shots."
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