Intuitive Surgical, a medical device company, has profited handsomely from the sale of its surgical robots to lots of hospitals. Still, most of the enormous revenue it generates comes from its super...
Diane Archer
Don’t ice your sore muscles
Gretchen Reynolds reports for The New York Times that it might not be a good idea to ice your sore muscles. One new study of mice whose muscles were iced suggests that icing can actually do harm...
Costs in Medicare Advantage present barrier to care
The Kaiser Family Foundation has a new report that underscores the likelihood of significant access to care issues in Medicare Advantage for people with modest incomes and people in fair or poor...
Social Security benefits need to increase
Michael Sainato reports for The Guardian on Social Security’s failure to provide many retired Americans a livable income. Consequently, millions of people in their 70’s are still working...
It’s time to stop overpaying Medicare Advantage plans
This article was originally posted on the Health Justice Monitor. It shows that many Medicare Advantage plans are engaged in “risk-adjustment” gaming–reporting that their members...
Beginning January 2022, HHS bans surprise bills from...
HHS has issued an interim final rule that bans surprise bills for patients who receive care from out-of-network providers at in-network hospitals. The rule applies to both emergency and non-emergency...
Don’t trust a hospital’s advertisements
Most people do not realize how important it is to take time choosing a hospital; sadly, good information about quality and safety is hard to come by, and rankings tend to be misleading. Hospitals...
Voters support improving and expanding Medicare
There’s a huge gap between people who can access healthcare and people who cannot, be they uninsured or insured, though functionally uninsured, because of exorbitant out-of-pocket costs. People...
Government drug price-setting could save millions of lives and...
In an opinion piece for Stat, James Glassman, a former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, overlooks the fact that proposals to base drug prices in the US on the prices other wealthy...
Kaiser Permanente sued for misleading people about their network...
The city of San Diego, California is suing Centene, Kaiser Permanente and Molina, three large corporate health plans, for false advertising about the health care providers in their networks reports...