Many Hospitals Charge More Than Twice What Medicare Pays for the Same Care
Hospitals across the country are charging private insurance companies 2.5 times what they get from Medicare for the same care, according to a new RAND...
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Call Me the Joan of Arc of Coronavirus Vaccine Trials
I am Patient 1133. I’ve never been in a medical trial before and I never wanted to be. As someone who suffers from pretty significant...
‘Covid Will Not Win’: Meet the Force Powering Brooklyn Hospital
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The Risks of the Prescribing Cascade
The medical mistakes that befell the 87-year-old mother of a North Carolina pharmacist should not happen to anyone, and my hope is that this column...
Kenya health ministry asked to publish virus deals amid graft scandal
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday ordered Kenya’s health ministry to publish details of all purchases made during the coronavirus pandemic following allegations government officials stole...
Trump Program to Cover Uninsured Covid-19 Patients Falls Short of Promise
WASHINGTON — Marilyn Cortez, a retired cafeteria worker in Houston with no health insurance, spent much of July in the hospital with Covid-19. When she...
Kenya confirmed virus infections hit 32,557, nearly 19,000 recoveries
Kenya’s number of declared coronavirus cases rose by 193 to reach 32,557 on Monday, after the analysis of 3,381 samples in the last 24 hours....
Billions in Hospital Virus Aid Rested on Compliance With Private Vendor
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration tied billions of dollars in badly needed coronavirus medical funding this spring to hospitals’ cooperation with a private vendor collecting...
Russian Doctors Accused of Blocking Overseas Transfer of Aleksei Navalny
A Russian hospital is refusing to allow the prominent Kremlin critic Aleksei A. Navalny to be transferred abroad for treatment after a suspected poisoning, the...
Families Are Central to Critical Care. But the Waiting Room Is Empty.
One morning in early March, during what would be our last week of normalcy, my team gathered outside our patient’s room on morning rounds. The...