Medicare Advantage plans are private options for Medicare eligible Americans. The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services pay per diagnosis, so in effect they pay
Emergency department staff at Kitsap County’s lone hospital recently called 911 for urgent help to put out a fire. The “fire”, though, was overwhelmed staff
We see it more and more – patients have to fail multiple therapies before they may finally begin the one actually recommended by their physician.
Our firm gets numerous medical publications online. Every once in a while I see an article that makes me think: “We really know very little about
Preterm infants may be born with underdeveloped lungs that need a significant amount of support. This need may continue for the baby’s first months of
Algorithms have long been used in medicine to evaluate whether targeted workups are needed for different conditions. They are computations that help providers determine the
The pandemic has caused us to make a major step backwards in controlling the spread of drug-resistant infections. Many of these drug-resistant infections have benefited
Cancer research is continuous, resulting in new therapies being developed all the time. For example, immunotherapy, though it had been around for a century, first
In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the well-funded healthcare startup Noble Health looked like exactly like the lifeline two rural Missouri hospitals needed. Instead,
Regular readers of this blog may recall prior blog posts regarding pricing transparency rules. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services developed a rule to