Federal panel aims to improve health care

Federal panel aims to improve health care.

New ambulance design aims to improve safety.

A new ambulance is helping deliver emergency medical care in a manner that is intended to improve safety for patients as well as providers, increase efficiency during patient care, decrease supply costs and provide better communication with hospital staff. The ambulance is a working proof of concept using a beta version of Ferno’s new modular iN∫Traxx component set. The ambulance was built for ...

Federal investments to eliminate racial/ethnic health-care disparities.

Health care is an important lever for moderating the effects of social determinants on health. We present a model that describes the relationships among social disadvantage, health-care disparities, and health disparities. Improving access to health care and enhancing patient-provider interaction are critical pathways for reducing disparities. Increasing the diversity of the public health and h...

Federal prosecution of health care fraud.

Volume 94 No. 9 September 2011 was sentenced to168 months in prison and ordered to pay $9.5 million in restitution for his part in the five-year long scheme. In December, the parent company of two New Jersey hospitals paid $7.9 million to resolve allegations that the hospitals wrongfully obtained excessive outlier payments. In March of 2010, a cancer center in Florida agreed to pay $12 million ...

Fiscal Shenanigans, Targeted Federal Health Care Funds,

We explore the effectiveness of matching grants when lower levels of government can expropriate some of the funds for other uses. Using data on the Medicaid Disproportionate Share program, we identify states that were most able to expropriate funds. Payments to public hospitals in these states were systematically diverted and had no significant impact on patient mortality. Payments that were no...