Mass. AG Campbell talks collapse of Steward Health Care, proposed settlement with Hoosic River polluter, campus arrests

This week, a for-profit Texas-based healthcare company under investigation by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell filed for bankruptcy. Campbell alleges Steward Health Care’s business model was designed to funnel money from the commonwealth’s health care system to its management and investors through debt-laden hospitals built to fail. Earlier this month, the first-term Democrat also issued a proposed settlement decree with a Berkshire County company that allegedly polluted the Hoosic River from an Adams facility. Campbell is also reacting to the mass arrests on college campuses during demonstrations against Israel’s bloody war in Gaza. She spoke with WAMC Berkshire Bureau

Feds Rein In Use of Predictive Software That Limits Care for Medicare Advantage Patients

Judith Sullivan was recovering from major surgery at a Connecticut nursing home in March when she got surprising news from her Medicare Advantage plan: It would no longer pay for her care because she was well enough to go home.

At the time, she could not walk more than a few feet, even with assistance — let alone manage the stairs to her front door, she said. She still needed help using a colostomy bag following major surgery.

“How could they make a decision like that without ever coming and seeing me?” said Sullivan, 76. “I still can’t walk without

IRDAI mandates updated, simple customer info sheet for health insurance cover from January

An updated customer information sheet (CIS) for health insurance cover providing policyholders key information in simple terms while highlighting their obligations to make transparent and fair disclosures will be issued from January.

From coverage details, waiting period, limits, exclusions, concepts like free look cancellation, migration, portability, moratorium period, guidance on procedure for claims submission and contact details for filing complaints will be available “in simple language in a snapshot”, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) said, mandating the revised CIS to the insurers.

Obligations of policyholders to make transparent and fair disclosures of relevant information pertaining to

Time, distance and staffing pose challenges to health care in rural North Dakota

VALLEY CITY, North Dakota – Teamwork made all the difference when Chuck Wendel collapsed and went into cardiac arrest at age 58 while shooting hoops in a North Dakota high school gym.

Buff Murray, a local high school teacher was playing on another court when he heard what had happened to Wendel. Trained twice in how to use an AED, or automated external defibrillator, Murray ran to a nearby activity center to retrieve one.

Meanwhile, Wendel’s teammates called 911 and started chest compressions. Murray returned with the AED, which confirmed Wendel needed CPR. The device instructed Murray when a shock