Staff / TruthdigJan 5, 2016
An analysis found California officials are inconsistently enforcing a 2008 patient privacy law. Hospitals in the state’s Inland Empire rack up deficiencies while Los Angeles hospitals almost never do. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 21, 2015
A new study analyzing previously unavailable data from three of the country's largest commercial health insurers finds that the cost of care for the privately insured varies wildly from town to town. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Sarah Lazare / Common DreamsOct 27, 2015
A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins sans Frontières hospital in northern Yemen was bombed Monday night by the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigOct 7, 2015
This just in from Capitol Hill: Gen. John Campbell, America's head military honcho in Afghanistan, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that a Doctors Without Borders-affiliated hospital in Kunduz was "mistakenly struck" in Saturday's air attack. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 24, 2015
Prompted by an investigation by ProPublica and NPR, Sen. Charles Grassley asks a Missouri nonprofit hospital to explain why it seizes the wages of thousands of its patients. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Paul Kiel, ProPublica, and Chris Arnold, NPRDec 20, 2014
One Missouri hospital has sued thousands of uninsured patients who couldn’t pay for their care, then grabbed a hefty portion of their paychecks to cover the bills. “We will be paying them off until we die,” one debtor said. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJul 6, 2014
Medical centers are jumping aboard the bandwagon of privacy invasion as they buy data on millions of patients both to anticipate when they'll get sick and for their own financial purposes. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 5, 2014
More than 20 percent of civilians with traumatic injuries may develop PTSD. Trauma surgeons explain why many hospitals aren’t doing anything about it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo NewsDec 6, 2013Dig deeper
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