Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (St Petersburg, Florida) – problems in the hospital’s heart surgery unit

February 26, 2019

Assignment: How would this problem have been avoided if Johns Hopkins quality assurance and patient safety protocols been followed? “The Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Masters program is a fully online, interdisciplinary degree offered by Johns Hopkins University. It is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins School

San Francisco General, a public hospital with San Francisco’s only trauma center, all commercial insurance is “out-of-network.”

February 26, 2019

PART 1. March 21, 2019 “If you’re shot, stabbed, hit by a car, fall off a roof or suffer any other major injury in San Francisco, you’ll be whisked to San Francisco General Hospital, the only trauma center in the city. …But you may leave with a very unpleasant side-effect: a shockingly high bill. …That’s

“Two-thirds of beneficiary communication is more complex to read than Moby Dick…” Let’s start with EOBs!

February 14, 2019

When triaging my snail mail I quickly put all the Explanation of Benefits (EOBs) aside. Soon after I toss them into a garbage bag then throw them out without any review. I have Medicare with secondary coverage from United, and I get sequential Explanations of Benefits (EOBS) from each. Here are some of the reasons