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By Evan Sweeney | Another year, another record-setting healthcare fraud takedown. This year, the Department of Justice charged 601 individuals involved in fraud schemes totaling $2 billion in losses to the federal government. That’s nearly 200 more people and an additional $700 million than the previous year’s takedown. There was a clear emphasis on opioid distribution, with 162 […]
Read MoreReducing the dose of buprenorphine during pregnancy is not associated with adverse outcomes, and lower doses of the opioid maintenance therapy at the time of delivery are in fact linked to benefits including reductions in the length of hospital stay and improved neonatal outcomes. A study presented here at The Pregnancy Meeting, the Annual Meeting […]
Read MoreMedicare, the federal health coverage mainly for people over 65, spends about $700 billion a year, and it’s estimated that about one-quarter of that spending on seniors goes to health care in the final year of life. That end-of-life spending has drawn scrutiny as potentially wasteful, involving heroic measures taken even though death looms inevitably. If health costs must be contained, […]
Read MoreNY Times June 26, 2018 by Paula Span One-third of patients over age 65 die in the hospital after they are put on ventilators. Doctors are beginning to wonder if the procedure should be used so often. Earlier this year, an ambulance brought a man in his 80s to the emergency room at Brigham and Women’s […]
Read MoreFierceHealthcare by Paige Minemyer Efforts to cut patient safety risks such as adverse drug events or falls saved 8,000 lives and $2.9 billion between 2014 and 2016, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions released this week. AHRQ estimates 350,000 hospital-acquired conditions were avoided in that window, reducing the rate of […]
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