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The Craziest Medical Bills

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trillion, was spent on hospital services. Patients around the country are getting stuck with enormous medical bills as hospitals continue to mark up the cost of their services, including those for routine medical procedures and advanced surgeries. For many patients and families, rising medical bills can be a nightmare.

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Hospital Threatens to Deport Comatose Mother for Undocumented Status

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A comatose patient at Lehigh Valley Network’s Cedar Crest Hospital in Pittsburg, PA may soon be on her way to the Dominican Republic despite her family wanting to keep her in the U.S. She underwent immediate surgery, but unexpected complications forced the staff to put her in a medically induced coma.

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Maine Hospital Using AI to Record Patient Conversations

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Deborah Vaughan, a patient at the hospital, said she appreciates being able to look her doctor in the eye while talking about her health. Her regular doctor, Dr. Rebecca Hemphill, used the AI app during her last two medical appointments at MaineHealth. Scott Smitherman, chief medical information officer at Providence Health.

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Cyberattack on Sunflower Medical Group Affects 221,000 Patients

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Cyberattacks and data breaches have been announced by Sunflower Medical Group, The Center for Digestive Health, NVW Newco, Endless Mountains Health Systems, and the Department of Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care System. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago.

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When Bias Turns Deadly: How Medical Bias Killed My 5-Year-Old Daughter

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You may wonder how my husband lived almost 40 years and had three kids without ever being diagnosed – simple medical bias. If it weren’t for my medical education, we would have never known my children and husband had EDS and MCAS. often attributed to other conditions, not EDS. I am a doctor in the U.S.

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One in Two Americans with Work-Based Insurance Worries That Healthcare Costs Could Lead to Bankruptcy

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with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. One in two people in the U.S. One-half of U.S. One-half of U.S.

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Outpatient is the New Inpatient – The Future of Hospitals in America

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hospitals and why I’ve titled this post, “outpatient is the new inpatient,” a future paradigm for U.S. This realization is informed by data in a new report from Deloitte, Where have the many hospital inpatient gone? Our ability to create that network outside the hospital is huge.”

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