At Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, patients on gurneys line the hallways of the emergency department waiting for care, and overflow mental health patients are consigned to outdoor tents. The 152-bed hospital, which sits on a sprawling medical campus close to the predominantly Latino and Black neighborhood of Watts, is struggling for financial stability. ...
A salaried job with health benefits has long been considered the gold standard of employment in the US. But now, as sharply rising health care premiums eat into workers’ pay, young, healthy professionals are rejecting employer-sponsored insurance. Instead, they’re going without coverage or finding cheaper options, saying they can’t afford to be on the company plan. ...
President Donald Trump has pulled his surgeon general nomination of Casey Means, M.D., and announced a new pick to become the nation’s doctor: Nicole Saphier, M.D., a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering and a Fox News medical contributor. The shift comes nearly a year after the initial nomination of Means, an author, blogger and health tech company ...
On the heels of Capital Blue Cross partnering with the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. to make lower-cost biosimilar alternatives to Humira and Stelara available to commercial members, CenterWell Pharmacy (a part of Humana Inc.) announced plans to develop end-to-end employer prescription solutions with Cost Plus Drugs. As part of this collaboration, Cost Plus Drugs’ ...
Just 10 minutes of daily floor exercises may improve balance, flexibility and agility, according to a new study. Researchers in Japan, including those at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, found participants improved in standing balance, side-to-side agility and trunk flexibility after completing the specific routine, according to the study, published in April in the journal PLOS ...
House Republicans during a Tuesday hearing blamed hospital and health systems for high health costs, excoriating a group of CEOs for exorbitant benefits packages, large profit margins and mergers. “Our communities are better off with hospitals in them, but large health systems have taken advantage of that reality,” Ways and Means Committee chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said. “Simply put, hospitals are charging an insane amount for care.” ...