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Written on Feb 23, 2024
In its early years, GoFundMe funded honeymoon trips, graduation gifts and church missions to overseas hospitals in need. Now GoFundMe has become a go-to platform for patients trying to escape medical billing nightmares.
The share of nursing homes using agency staff every day of the year more than doubled between 2018 and 2022, newly published research shows — further fueling concerns about the prospect of a federal staffing mandate being finalized soon.
Arbiters are mostly selecting the higher payment offer in billing dispute determinations. That suggests No Surprises could actually raise premiums for consumers, one health researcher said.
As the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare rapidly grows, hospital executives are still wrangling with practical questions around governance policies to establish basic rules of the road.