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The Sunshine Act requires manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, biological and medical supplies covered by the three federal health care programs Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to collect and track all financial relationships with physicians and teaching hospitals and to report these data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Boston Children's Hospital (formerly known as Children's Hospital Boston until 2013) [1] is the main pediatric training and research hospital of Harvard Medical School, Harvard University. [2] It is a nationally ranked, freestanding acute care children's hospital located at the centre of Harvard Longwood Medical and Academic Area in Boston ...
This is a list of current and former hospitals in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, U.S.By default, the list is sorted alphabetically by name. This table also provides the hospital network of each hospital (if applicable), the city and county where it is located, whether or not it has an emergency department, when it was opened and closed, its current status, type, and former names.
25 to 30 percent of hospital procedures are wasteful without improving the quality of care. [47] Unlike fee-for-service, bundled payment discourages unnecessary care, encourages coordination across providers, and potentially improves quality. [5] [48] Unlike capitation, bundled payment does not penalize providers for caring for sicker patients. [5]
The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. Children's hospitals are characterized by greater attention to the psychosocial support of children and their families.
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The Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital and the Edmond J. Safra International Congenital Heart Center, Tel Hashomer; Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital, Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa; Saban Children's Center, Soroka Hospital Be'er Sheva; Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva
The study found that: 1) From 2007 to 2009, the total number of medical bankruptcies (defined as due to unpaid medical bills or to loss of income due to illness, with no distinction between those causes) in Massachusetts increased by more than one third, from 7,504 to 10,093; and 2) Illness and medical costs contributed to 59.3% of bankruptcies ...