San Francisco The Affordable Care Act has given health consumers, also known frequently as patients, more significant advances in transparency and information about hospitals and doctors. Medical records are being digitized and becoming accessible. Information is being made public on doctors, exposing some have Medicare mills. It appears the public is getting closer to being …
Category: Health Care
Union Leaders Concerned about Schools, Wages, and Medical Debt
Little Rock When the forty leaders at the 34th Annual Local 100 Leadership Conference, held this year in Little Rock, were asked how many of them were carrying medical debt, more than half of the hands in the room went up. When asked how many had family, friends, or neighbors dealing with the burden of …
Clear Standards for Charity Care for Nonprofit Hospitals
Little Rock For millions there is a collective sigh of relief as 6-3 affirmation of the Affordable Care Act subsidies for low income Americans sinks in and allows us to stop pinching our arms about whether or not this is real. If there’s anything we’ve learned, it’s that the Supreme Court can “giveth,” as it …