Risk Management
Zoom+ allegedly falsified medical claims to make members appear sicker than they were to avoid paying risk adjustment payments.
As many as 28 percent of patients offered home health care when they're being discharged from a hospital -- mostly older adults -- say "no."
Of 37 provider-sponsored health plans that have formed since 2010, only four were profitable in 2015, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report.
On any given day, 1 in 25 patients across the U.S. suffers from at least one infection acquired while they are in the hospital, CDC says.
It's not clear how many patient records might have been exposed; company has more than 4.8 million customers in 12 states, Puerto Rico.
Project took AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program, and molded it around long-term care facilities.
Report said 6 in 10 hospitals looked at had c-section rates above the national target rate for low-risk births.
Authors caution that the findings should be considered exploratory, but say that the gap could be bridged by continuing education, re-training.
While security experts were expecting a second wave of attacks this week, the outbreak has begun to slow.
Many set up command centers and feverishly worked to roll out patches to gird against the global ransomware crisis.