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...Envision Healthcare, a KKR-owned company that employs doctors who staff emergency rooms and anaesthesiology departments in hundreds of US hospitals, sued UnitedHealthcare in 2018 in a dispute over billing...
...A typical case is Texas where, DD’s Mark Vandevelde reports, three PE-backed companies employ physicians that staff about one-quarter of the state’s 384 emergency rooms....
...Blackstone acquired hospital staffing supplier Team Health in 2016 and two years later, KKR bought physician services and emergency room operator Envision Healthcare for $9.9bn....
...Instead he is among the hundreds of thousands of emergency doctors employed by a private-equity owned physician staffing group....
...“As a mother and a physician, I know that parents, caregivers, school staff, and children have been waiting for today’s authorisation....
...That really needs to be made clear,” said Dr Leana Wen, an emergency physician and professor of health policy and management at George Washington University....
...The Covid-19 vaccine contributed $154m in the three months until the end of the year, after it received emergency use authorisations in the US, UK and EU in December....
...Antibody treatments could become an important tool for physicians....
...Regeneron said the White House doctor applied for permission to use its drug — which has not been approved by regulators even on an emergency basis — on “compassionate use” grounds....
...Pharma companies have a “public responsibility”, says Lewis Nelson, chair of the department of emergency medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School....
...“We’d be packaging them in two, four, six and eight-day packs, so more physicians might be encouraged to prescribe that,” said Dr Gottlieb....
...(The Lancet) Public health emergencies From Anthrax to Zika — a special issue on the handling of US health emergencies....
...Despite their experience, the medical skills of older physicians are often less up to date than their younger colleagues....
...Constant data flows may yield insights that force physicians to rethink the way they treat their patients. “This is new medicine,” says Prof Sodini....
...Given the shortage of physicians nationwide, it is hard to say this is not a good thing....
...On June 12, the company received a separate subpoena regarding physician relationships....
...For example, the current process for pre-authorising claims can take up to two weeks and involve input from several nurses and physicians....
...Books such as Body By Science, by a South Carolina-based emergency room physician named Doug McGuff, and The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution, by Fred Hahn, who owns Mr Greenberg’s gym in New York, describe...
...US dialysis clinic operator DaVita is to acquire HealthCare Partners, which operates physician groups in several US states, for $4.42bn, reports the FT....
...It also rolled out walk-in clinics in hundreds of its stores to aid customers with minor ailments at a much lower cost than physicians or emergency rooms offered....
...But as much as Mr Fetter and Tenet supported healthcare reform, he does not believe it will relieve his industry of the intense volume of emergency room visits for patients who are not actually in an emergency...
...“The way the software works has not been as physician-friendly as it could have been – it’s been a little clunky,” says Mr Shickolovich. “Because there’s been no market for it.”...
...Similar problems will need to be addressed if personal health records are to play a role in the emergency room....
...There will be incentives paid to physicians to switch over....
...Not just in the US, but in countries with creaky national health systems such as the UK, where lengthy waiting lists for non-emergency surgery have spurred many to look abroad....
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