Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was the “opioid epidemic.” From 1999 to 2019, nearly 500,000 people died from an overdose involving any opioid, including prescription
Regular readers of this blog may recall prior blog posts regarding pricing transparency rules. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services developed a rule to
We speak to folks every day who have had a bad experience with medical care. Sometimes the care leads to injury, and sometimes this injury
As readers of this blog know, the pandemic has changed how civil jury trials work. Fortunately, the effort and innovation by King County Superior Court
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
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly every part of our lives for the last two-plus years. This includes the frequency with which we received our
