The term “ghost surgeries” refers to a practice in which the designated surgeon attends a small portion of a surgery but the cost of the
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
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,
A recent legislative development in California reminds us how lucky we are that Washington has no cap on non-economic damages. Last year we were fortunate
Regular readers of this blog may recall prior blog posts regarding pricing transparency rules. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services developed a rule to
The Leapfrog Group’s 2022 Hospital safety grades reflect a decline in patient safety over the course of the pandemic. There are many factors that contribute
We wrote a blog post in 2020 discussing the impact of the pandemic on private practice physicians, struggling to keep their doors open. Primary practice physicians,
Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics announced a new policy to remove antiquated “race-based” medicine from its clinical guidelines. Prior to these recent efforts, AAP
In a bid to save thousands of dollars, a private equity group that runs an emergency physician practice group instead found itself at the wrong
A merger that has been in the works for months has materialized. Recently we learned that four cancer treatment and research centers were finalizing plans