ProPublica, to Insurance
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UnitedHealthcare tried to deny Chris McNaughton health coverage. He fought back, filed a lawsuit and exposed the company’s inner workings.

None of the UnitedHealthcare representatives heard in this video responded to our requests for comment.

Shortly after we published our story, United settled Chris’ . The terms are confidential.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDOS8I0wp24

ProPublica, to Health
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How Often Do Health Insurers Say No to Patients?
No One Knows.

Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public.

There’s nowhere a consumer or employer can go to look up all insurers’ denial rates.

Federal and state regulators have done little to change that.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-often-do-health-insurers-deny-patients-claims?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

appassionato, to DadBin
@appassionato@mastodon.social avatar

Gaza children

Will they survive?

Children sit in the back of an ambulance at Shifa Hospital after an Israeli air strike hit the nearby Al-Ahli Hospital, according to Gaza Health Ministry in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Al-Masri

@palestine

beadsland, to random

NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey—provide for volatile projections.

HPS Phase3.9 questionnaire now pending public comment—no collection dates announced.

As more and more folk experience Long Covid, fewer and fewer staff our #hospitals.

#ThisIsOurPolio #CountLongCovid
#CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent

This is first toot of a weekly thread, updated daily, providing various dataviz of ongoing [#pandemic.]

Last week: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/110374822909399818

auscandoc, to random
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COVID-19: Hospitalizations rising in Canada | CTV News https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/covid-19-hospitalizations-reach-numbers-not-seen-since-last-winter-1.6605491 “Knowing #hospitals across the country struggle to meet demand every time #COVID19 cases rise and that — however small the number — people are still dying due to the coronavirus, Curry and Bogoch said individuals should continue to do anything they can to help limit the spread of COVID-19 and other #RespiratoryViruses.”

appassionato, to Israel
@appassionato@mastodon.social avatar

During a news conference outside al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, a doctor has urged the international community to put a stop to the war crimes being committed against Gaza’s hospitals.

“We are now calling [on] the whole world, if there is any awake conscience, please [take] action,” he said. “Any politician in the world now who cannot put the pressure to stop these war crimes on the hospitals, his hands are bloodied.”

@palestine
#Gaza
#hospitals
#Israel
#WarCrimes

ProPublica, to Health
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The Hidden Fee Costing #Doctors Millions Every Year

A powerful #lobbyist convinced a federal agency that doctors can be forced to pay fees on money that #health insurers owe them.

Big companies rake in profits while doctors are saddled with yet another cost in a burdensome #HealthCare system.

#Insurance #Patients #hospitals #news

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-hidden-fee-costing-doctors-millions-every-year?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

ProPublica, to Columbia
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How Columbia Ignored Women, Undermined Prosecutors and Protected a Predator For More Than 20 Years

For decades, patients warned about the behavior of obstetrician Robert Hadden.

One even called 911 and had him arrested.

Columbia let him keep working.

https://www.propublica.org/article/columbia-obgyn-sexually-assaulted-patients-for-20-years?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

appassionato, to palestine
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The Palestine Red Crescent (PRCS) is reporting that the Israeli army is besieging both Jenin Governmental Hospital and Ibn Sina Hospital in the occupied West Bank.

In a post on X, the PRCS also said that the Israeli army is obstructing and preventing their emergency medical services teams from reaching the injured and continuously inspecting its ambulance vehicles.

@palestine
#WestBank
#hospitals
#PRCS

ProPublica, to Insurance
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Health Insurers Have Been Breaking State Laws for Years

States have passed hundreds of laws to protect people from wrongful #insurance denials.

Yet from emergency services to fertility preservation, #insurers still say no.

#Health #HealthCare #HealthInsurance #Legal #Court #CriminalJustice #Crime #Politics #News #Patients #Doctors #Hospitals

https://www.propublica.org/article/health-insurance-denials-breaking-state-laws?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

auscandoc, to random
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Opinion: easing means at hospitals are ending. That’s unconscionable. | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/29/opinions/covid-mask-hospitals-health-patients-shihipar/index.html “Indeed, that are removing measures are applying the wrong lesson from combating Covid: Our success doesn’t mean we can get rid of all the measures that kept the vulnerable safe, but that we have identified new tools to use in maintaining health. Masks are one of them, and they don’t just help against Covid, but against other illnesses,”

ProPublica, to random
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Has a health insurance company denied your claim?

Have you come across other infuriating denials on social media?

Help us by tagging posts with:
#claimdenied

@ProPublica reporters will be tracking this hashtag and following up with information on how you can request the internal notes and audio surrounding the claim.

#Health #Insurance #HealthCare #Hospitals #Doctors #Patients #Medicine #Medication

Nonilex, to Law
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ProPublica, to Health
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Unstoppable: This Doctor Has Been Investigated at Every Level of Government.
How Is He Still Practicing?

Medical boards, a health department and even federal investigators have scrutinized Dr. James McGuckin’s vascular clinics.

Today he still practices, despite a decade-long string of sanctions, fines and lawsuits.

#Health #HealthCare #Doctors #Hospitals #Patients #Insurance #Medicare #DOJ #Pennsylvania #News #McGuckin

https://www.propublica.org/article/pennsylvania-doctor-investigated-at-every-level-why-is-he-still-practicing?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

ZhiZhu, to Russia
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"In Dnipro, we visited an apartment building where at least 64 people had died in an earlier #Russian missile strike. Eerily enough, we could still see clothes hanging in a top-floor closet — visible because the entire front wall of the building was gone. Other Russian missiles have struck #hospitals, #schools & shopping malls in the area. These are targets of no military value whose destruction amounts to #crimes against humanity"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/12/ukraine-united-states-aid/

#Russia #Ukraine #War #News #WorldNews

appassionato, to palestine
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Timeline of major Israeli attacks on Gaza’s hospitals

The World Health Organization has documented 445 Israeli attacks on Gaza’s medical sector that affected 101 health facilities, including 32 hospitals.

@palestine


bloodravenlib, to books
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I finished my nonfiction, and was looking for another to start. I picked this up, unsure if I would be in the mood, and first few pages drew me in, so this is my current nonfiction read now. I will review it on the blog when done.

The book is: "The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine."
https://www.worldcat.org/title/1371333441

#books #reading #hospitals #HealthCare #medicine #ThisIsAmerica #bookstodon

ProPublica, to Columbia
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5 Documents That Helped Us Understand How #Columbia Protected a Predator

For decades, Columbia obstetrician Robert Hadden was abusing #patients.

Here’s some of the #evidence ProPublica reporter Bianca Fortis used to investigate how the #university allowed it to happen.

#SexualAssault #Education #Hospitals #Doctors #Parents #Moms #Pregnancy #News #NewYork #NYC

https://www.propublica.org/article/five-documents-helped-us-understand-how-columbia-protected-a-predator?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

appassionato, to palestine
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The latest from al-Shifa Hospital
from sources inside the facility:

Israeli military tanks are located inside the hospital courtyard.

The soldiers are using loudspeakers ordering young men to surrender themselves.

Israeli forces have blown up a warehouse of medicine and medical devices in the hospital.

About 30 people taken outside were stripped of their clothes, blindfolded, surrounded by three tanks in the courtyard.

@palestine
#Gaza
#hospitals
#AlShifa

appassionato, to palestine
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Israeli forces were wandering around the whole hospital, and have blown up the MRI and CT scan machines.

“So they now fool the world, and tell it that they have found weapons in the MRI room. Does it make sense for an MRI machine – which not one piece of metal can be present near – to have weapons next to it?" al-Bursh

@palestine
#Gaza
#hospitals
#AlShifa

appassionato, to palestine
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Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila says Israeli forces “are not evacuating people from hospitals; instead, they are forcibly evicting the wounded and patients onto the streets, leaving them to face inevitable death.

“This is not evacuation but expulsion under the threat of arms,” she said in a press release, as cited by Palestinian WAFA news agency.

@palestine
#Gaza
#hospitals

ProPublica, (edited ) to trans
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Emails Reveal How a Bowed to Political Pressure to Stop Treating Teens

The Medical University of South Carolina initially said it wouldn’t be affected by a law banning use of state funds for treatment “furthering the transition” of under 16.

Months later, it cut off that care to all trans minors.

https://www.propublica.org/article/musc-medical-university-south-carolina-trans-healthcare-emails?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

msquebanh, to Health
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With , we’re harnessing power of personal stories to highlight impacts of abandoning measures & demand change. Past waves of helped restore to BC & over fall/winter & resulted in a commitment of over $3 billion across 3 years for measures. Now, we’re on the third wave, supporting our ‘ Is Seasonal’ campaign to year round!

https://donoharmbc.ca/postcards4publichealth

fulelo, to random
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BBC News - UK government to miss 40 new #hospitals target - watchdog
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66217375 #NHS

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