A young child was diagnosed with an unbalanced chromosomal translocation, a chromosomal abnormality resulting in the need for 24-hour care throughout his life.
A young woman died from fatally low oxygen levels after being prescribed a narcotic pain relief patch after treatment for pancreatitis.
Though useful, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) is warning that copy and paste can lead to fraudulent billing, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is vowing to pursue any providers who abuse the feature.
Hospitals in two states recently were in the difficult position of having to disagree with a family about terminating life support for patients declared dead.
