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25 Aug 2013, 11:04 am
Brown acknowledged that cost-benefit analyses are tricky to compute thanks to the confusing nature of health-care accounting systems, but she also said data suggests adequate staffing reduces hospital costs. [read post]
17 Sep 2013, 10:01 pm by James Andrews
The study used the health records of MRSA-infected patients between 2005 and 2010 in the Geisinger Health System, a Pennsylvania-based medical network that helped fund the study. [read post]
4 Oct 2013, 4:46 am by Jon Gelman
New research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is revealing that short sleepers, those who sleep less than six hours per night on average, are the most likely to experience drowsy driving, even when they feel completely rested. [read post]
17 Jul 2009, 9:26 am
  He’s the author of “The Medical Malpractice Myth,” a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a recent contributor to the New York Times Op-Ed page. [read post]
13 May 2019, 7:04 am by Whittel & Melton, LLC
Anyone from an individual doctor to a billing company to an entire hospital system can be the target of a lengthy investigation. [read post]
13 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
Conversely, without the settlements, we pay and they don’t.The Cost of Sex AbuseSo far, social scientists have not been able to nail down the cost of sex abuse to society alone and so we are left to draw inferences from other data.In 2012, leading scholars Richard Gelles and Staci Perlman arrived at a total of approximately $80 billion/year for all child abuse and neglect, including direct costs (“hospitalization, mental health care system, child welfare… [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 8:50 am
Senator Diane Allen (R- Burlington/Camden), co-prime sponsor of legislation (S-2959) protecting the ability of public employees to choose their medical providers regardless of state boundaries, today said she is pleased that legislative leaders have agreed to remove any and all language regarding out of state providers from the recently passed pension and benefits reform legislation: “When I was diagnosed with cancer several years ago, my New Jersey doctors told me that my best hope of beating… [read post]
4 Nov 2022, 12:58 pm by Brent Wieand
In August 2022, two for-profit skilled nursing facilities in southwestern Pennsylvania were indicted on charges related to health care fraud. [read post]
1 Nov 2009, 7:23 pm
Professor Tom Baker, a professor of law and health sciences at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and author of "The Medical Malpractice Myth," believes that making the legal system less receptive to medical malpractice lawsuits will not significantly affect the costs of medical care, and will likely result in more malpractice by doctors and hospitals (which would further increase healthcare costs.) [read post]
11 Jun 2016, 12:23 pm by Jon Gelman
The Pennsylvania Allegheny County Department of Health (ACDH) reports that a researcher was infected by a needle stick wound. [read post]
3 Sep 2023, 5:09 pm by Bill Marler
The Wood County Health Department has sent lab samples to the Ohio Department of Health to learn whether the illnesses are connected. [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 7:44 am by Rebecca Tushnet
 All UHS Delaware showed was “a potential awareness of Universal’s presence in the general healthcare marketplace,” and defendants’ stated objective was, at least in part, “to distinguish itself from competitors such as United Healthcare and Universal Health System. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 7:36 am
Rhodes, M.D., an author of the study and director of emergency care policy research in the department of emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. [read post]
4 Oct 2009, 4:19 pm
Hospitals and doctors can game the reimbursement system. [read post]
16 Jan 2020, 7:01 am by Kristen Matteucci
This act, effective October 1, 2020, implements universal lead safe certification in Philadelphia. [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 12:27 pm
About 30% of Texas prison inmates were prior clients of the state's indigent mental health system. [read post]