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Over 6½ years ago, KFF Health News and NPR kicked off “Bill of the Month,” a crowdsourced investigation highlighting the impact of medical bills on patients. The goal was to understand how the U.S. health care system generates outsize bills and to empower patients with strategies to avoid them. We asked readers and listeners to

Tescha Hawley learned that hospital bills from her son’s birth had been sent to debt collectors only when she checked her credit score while attending a home-buying class. The new mom’s plans to buy a house stalled. Hawley said she didn’t owe those thousands of dollars in debts. The federal government did. Hawley, a citizen

Epic marks one year of connecting hospitals since joining the Trusted Exchange Framework and the Common Agreement and pledges to continue connecting health system customers under universal interoperability. WHY IT MATTERS Epic built its electronic health records-based interoperability network before TEFCA and partnered with others to create nationwide exchange frameworks, including Carequality. Since TEFCA went live in

Quizzes > Weekly News Quiz — You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz by MedPage Today Staff December 14, 2024 The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week. This week's topics include lead exposure and mental

Unite Genomics, a Mark Cuban portfolio company, announced a new partnership this week that the company says can help personalize and tailor patient care insights based on their medical records and spot potential gaps in care. The company said Monday that its direct-to-consumer platform uses artificial intelligence to analyze the medical care patients may have received and

TOPLINE: Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) and fenofibrates are associated with a reduced risk for diabetic macular edema (DME) in patients with type 2 diabetes, while calcium channel blockers appear to increase the risk. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of electronic medical records from the TriNetX health research network to evaluate how

Cardiologist Daniel West, MD, had practiced at Trinity Health Muskegon Hospital in Muskegon, Michigan, since he finished medical school. His mother worked at that hospital as a lab technician, and West and his brother were born there.  The hospital was his “forever job,” said West, who is 66. He had risen through the ranks to