
Katie Thomas
Health Care Enterprise Reporter at The New York Times
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2 weeks ago |
ra.co | Katie Thomas
On her second album, Shanti Celeste makes a convincing pivot to pop, swinging between grief and infatuation with striking candour. In case you haven't heard, Shanti Celeste is in love. The dizzying, intoxicating kind that turns people into poets. On "Butterflies," the undulating opening track on her new album, she references the nervous thrill of a new relationship.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Katie Thomas |Jessica Silver-Greenberg
Acadia Healthcare's chief executive was awarded a $1.8 million bonus to respond to "unprecedented governmental inquiries" into allegations of holding psychiatric patients against their will. Last year was tough for Acadia Healthcare, one of the country's largest providers of mental health services. A slew of federal agencies opened investigations into whether Acadia illegally held patients against their will in its psychiatric hospitals, as described in a New York Times investigation in September.
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Sarah Kliff |Katie Thomas
Share Seniors across the country are wearing very expensive bandages.Made of dried bits of placenta, the paper-thin patches cover stubborn wounds and can cost thousands of dollars per square inch.Some research has found that such “skin substitutes” help certain wounds heal.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Sarah Kliff |Katie Thomas
Many accountable care organizations, which track Medicare spending for large groups of patients, have alerted the government about overuse of skin substitutes. In March 2023, Dr. Danielle Whitacre, the chief medical officer of Bloom Healthcare in Colorado, and her colleagues complained to a Medicare claims processor about a baffling explosion in patients getting skin substitutes from mobile wound care clinics. Skin substitutes are typically not harmful.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Sarah Kliff |Katie Thomas
In 2023, companies billed Medicare for hundreds of thousands of urinary catheters that doctors never ordered. The next year, doctors collected billions from the government for pricey bandages that were sometimes unneeded. Medicare waste has wide-reaching consequences. Even if patients do not pay the bills themselves, more spending by the government insurance program can increase future premiums.
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