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This Nov. 8, 2018 file photo shows a page from the 2019 U.S. Medicare Handbook in Washington.

How Medicare Advantage plans dodged auditors and overcharged taxpayers by millions

December 16, 2022 at 11:34 a.m.

In April 2016, government auditors asked a Blue Cross Medicare Advantage health plan in Minnesota to turn over medical records of patients treated by a podiatry practice whose owner had...

Nancy Lazo, de Hialeah Gardens, Florida, está demandando al Dr. Kingsley Chin, cuyo implante de tornillo de la compañía causó daño a los nervios, alegan sus abogados.

Fabricantes de dispositivos canalizan miles de millones a cirujanos ortopédicos que utilizan sus productos

June 24, 2021 at 11:30 a.m.

El doctor Kingsley R. Chin llevaba poco más de una década fuera de la Facultad de Medicina de Harvard cuando las ventas de sus implantes quirúrgicos para la columna vertebral...

A firefighter/paramedic prepares a shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Tequesta Fire Department on January 15. The city received 50 doses. There are 1600 residents that are 65 and older.

Huge gaps in vaccine data make it next to impossible to know who got the shots

February 1, 2021 at 12:25 p.m.

As they rush to vaccinate millions of Americans, health officials are struggling to collect critically important information — such as race, ethnicity and occupation — of every person they jab....

Un bombero paramédico prepara una inyección de la vacuna Moderna COVID-19 en el Departamento de Bomberos de Tequesta el 15 de enero. La ciudad recibió 50 dosis. Hay 1,600 residentes que tienen 65 años o más. Las citas en línea se agotaron en menos de tres minutos.

Casi imposible saber quién se vacunó

February 1, 2021 at 11:25 a.m.

Mientras se apresuran a vacunar a millones de estadounidenses, las autoridades sanitarias se esfuerzan por recopilar información de importancia crítica (como la raza, el origen étnico y la ocupación) de...

As coronavirus spreads widely, millions of older Americans live in counties with no ICU beds

March 25, 2020 at 12:46 p.m.

More than half the counties in America have no intensive care beds, posing a particular danger for more than 7 million people who are age 60 and up older patients...

Lakeview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, shown on June 8, 2018. Shana Dorsey said the staff never told her about seriousness of her father's pressure sore, which led to sepsis, a severe infection that can quickly turn deadly.

In Illinois’ understaffed nursing homes, deadly infections persist from bedsores and common injuries that go untreated

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

Shana Dorsey first caught sight of the purplish wound on her father’s lower back as he lay in a suburban Chicago hospital bed a few weeks before his death. Her...

Misuse of ‘bupe’ is found to be on rise

August 21, 2019 at 4:15 p.m.

In a report to federal regulators, the manufacturer of buprenorphine has provided the starkest evidence to date that misuse of the drug is growing in parts of the country where...

Long wait for action in death of their son

March 29, 2019 at 2:59 p.m.

Three years after their teenage son, Michael, died from taking a prescription painkiller, George and Alicia Osgood are still waiting for the outcome of a state investigation into his death....

Calls for more doctor oversight

March 29, 2019 at 8:01 p.m.

Key Maryland lawmakers are calling for tighter oversight of the state's doctors, including greater disclosure of malpractice claims histories and other information by the Board of Physicians. "There needs to...

When lawsuits leave out doctors

March 29, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

Last of three parts Lawyers who sue Maryland's elite hospitals for alleged medical mistakes often don't target the physicians involved, a practice that expedites such cases but can shield doctors...

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