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...management company involved in auditing hospital bills for insurance carriers. Previously I spent seven years working in an acute-care unit of a nonprofit hospital. From my experience, I can tell you that the waste, misbilling, double billing and unnecessary testing are atrocious. More power to Louisville's Humana Hospital for hiring business professionals who can correct the inefficiencies and institute money-saving methods...
...only had about 40 days to live. With this new heart I feel I have ten years." But last Thursday evening, as Schroeder sat in a chair eating dinner, his wife Margaret became alarmed when he abruptly froze and then fell unconscious. He had suffered what doctors at Humana Hospital Audubon called a "small but severe stroke...
Controversy continues to swirl about the implant. Los Angeles Internist David Olch, a member of the American Medical Association's judicial council, which proposed guidelines for the replacement of failing organs, issued a scathing criticism of the Humana hospital chain in last week's American Medical News. Asked Olch: "Will the artificial heart benefit Schroeder as much as it benefits [Designer Robert] Jarvik, Humana and the surgical team?" Responded Dr. Allan Lansing, medical director of the Louisville hospital's heart institute: "Business in the health industry has been criticized for not supporting research. Now they...
...Loma Linda Hospital--where Baby Fae became the first person to survive for any length of time with an animal heart--"unethical, impractical and immoral," Harvard doctors have broken the usually silent ranks of the medical profession lest the public become overly enthralled in the aberration. Likewise, the Humana Hospital has been charged with a gross neglect of established health policy by venturing into the artificial health field with an eye for publicity and profit...
...LEAST the operations at the Humana and Loma Linda Hospitals promised some widespread application in the future, compensating for their violations of the sacred medical code of ethics. The number of organs available from organ banks in this country will never match the number of needed transplants, and experimentation with artificial and animals hearts offers some relief in this area. If the medical profession decides to continue with expensive transplant procedures despite the somewhat hypocritical warnings from Harvard, certainly research devoted to finding other sources to supplement the scarce human organ supply is wanting. In effect, Harvard has harshly criticized...