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“A patient who is considered neutropenic, if they spike a low-grade temperature of 100.4, they can go from being alive and well to dead in three hours,” Palmeri testified, explaining why oncologists ultimately withdrew acute hematology services after documenting that nurses “were not checking temperature in the time frames that they’re supposed to check.”

Providers nationwide are experiencing an uptick in health plans denying payments by improperly asserting that providers are not coding their claims correctly.

Austrian medical authorities have emphasized that no non-credentialed individual—let alone a child—may be present or participate in any part of a surgical procedure, regardless of consent or supervision.

Rates of clinical practice attrition increased significantly from 3.5% in 2013 to 4.9% in 2019. In adjusted models, female physicians and those practicing in rural areas were more likely to leave clinical practice.

Patients receiving telehealth visits had statistically higher rates of emergency department use (38.2% vs 30.2%) and inpatient stays (29.9% vs 21.6%) than patients exclusively seen and examined by their physicians in person.

Judge Patrick Corum ruled that the hospital was profoundly negligent during delivery, describing its care as comparable to giving birth in “the most dangerous place on the planet.”