Biology, Anatomy, and Finance? More Med Students Want Business Degrees Too
Jasen Gundersen never considered a career in business when he entered medical school nearly three decades ago to become a rural primary care doctor. But, today, he isn’t working in rural America and...
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The Colonoscopies Were Free. But the ‘Surgical Trays’ Came With $600 Price Tags.
Chantal Panozzo and her husband followed their primary care doctors’ orders last year after they both turned 45, now the recommended age to start screening for colorectal cancer. They scheduled their...
View ArticleAfter Appalachian Hospitals Merged Into a Monopoly, Their ERs Slowed to a Crawl
In the small Appalachian city of Bristol, Virginia, City Council member Neal Osborne left a meeting on the morning of Jan. 3 and rushed himself to the hospital. Osborne, 36, has Type 1 diabetes. His...
View ArticleA State-Sanctioned Hospital Monopoly Raises Concerns
The Federal Trade Commission has long argued that competition makes the economy better. But some states have stopped the agency from blocking hospital mergers that create local or regional monopolies,...
View ArticleMedical Providers Still Grappling With UnitedHealth Cyberattack: ‘More...
Two months after a cyberattack on a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary halted payments to some doctors, medical providers say they’re still grappling with the fallout, even though UnitedHealth told...
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Democrats Seek To Make GOP Pay for Threats to Reproductive Rights
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Democrat Lucas Kunce is trying to pin reproductive care restrictions on Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), betting it will boost his chances of unseating the incumbent in November. In a...
View ArticleIndiana Weighs Hospital Monopoly as Officials Elsewhere Scrutinize Similar Deals
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Locals in this city of 58,000 are used to having to wait at railroad crossings for one of the dozens of daily cargo trains to pass through. But a proposed merger between the two...
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Medicaid for Millions in America Hinges on Deloitte-Run Systems Plagued by...
Deloitte, a global consultancy that reported revenue last year of $65 billion, pulls in billions of dollars from states and the federal government for supplying technology it says will modernize...
View ArticleTwo Rival Hospitals Want To Join Forces. Will Patients Lose?
In Terre Haute, Ind., two rival hospitals want to merge, a move that supporters say will save patients money and help people live longer. But similar hospital consolidations in Tennessee, Virginia and...
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Errors in Deloitte-Run Medicaid Systems Can Cost Millions and Take Years To Fix
The computer systems run by the consulting giant Deloitte that millions of Americans rely on for Medicaid and other government benefits are prone to errors that can take years and hundreds of millions...
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