Two Southwest Missouri health care providers have agreed to pay the United States $34,000,000 to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, the Justice Department announced today. The two Defendants are Mercy Hospital Springfield f/k/a St. John’s Regional Health Center, and its affiliate, Mercy Clinic Springfield Communities f/k/a St. John’s Clinic. Among other health care facilities, the Defendants operate a hospital, clinic, and infusion center in Springfield, Missouri. Continue reading “Missouri Hospitals Agree to Pay United States $34 Million to Settle Alleged False Claims Act Violations Arising from Improper Payments to Oncologists”
Olathe man wounded at Austins while trying to stop shooter
Ian Grillot is recovering after he was shot Wednesday night at Austins Bar & Grill in Olathe. Grillot intervened after a man was yelling racial slurs at two men he reportedly thought were Middle Eastern. One of those men died. This footage is from The University of Kansas Health System. – Leah Becerra The Kansas City Star
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Medical Errors Listed as the 3rd Leading Cause of Death in the United States
“It boils down to people dying from the care that they receive rather than the disease for which they are seeking care.”
Researchers at John Hopkins University have found Medical Errors to be the third leading cause of death in the United States—ranking medical errors higher than stroke, accidents, and respiratory disease. According to an article in The Washington Post, Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who led the research for this study, said in an interview that ‘medical errors includes everything from bad doctors to more systemic issues such as communication breakdowns when patients are handed off from one department to another.’ The researchers conducted this study in order to shed light on a topic that is not consistently discussed, or accurately reported. Kenneth Sands, who directs health-care quality at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, said that the surprising thing about medical errors is the limited change that has taken place since the IOM report came out. Only hospital-acquired infections have shown improvement. “The overall numbers haven’t changed, and that’s discouraging and alarming,” he said.
