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Cheryl Clark

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Leapfrog's safety grades give 372 hospitals straight As, but 5 get an F

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By Cheryl Clark
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Cheryl Clark Even amid an ongoing controversy, the Leapfrog Group released its semi-annual safety rankings, with hundreds of hospitals earning top marks, while just 5 got an F. Four states have the highest percentage of top-scoring hospitals in the ranking: Connecticut, Virginia, South Carolina, and Utah. More than half of scored hospitals in those states earned an "A" in Leapfrog's spring edition of its Hospital Safety Grades.
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Malpractice premiums keep rising, despite fewer lawsuits against doctors

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By Cheryl Clark
| MSN
Cheryl Clark Even though fewer physicians are being sued for medical malpractice each year, liability premiums have still been rising, according to two reports from the American Medical Association (AMA). The percentage of practicing physicians sued for malpractice in the past year fell from 2.3% in 2016 to 1.8% in 2024, according to AMA's medical liability claims report .
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Huge rates of insurance denials get overturned by independent review experts

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By Cheryl Clark
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Cheryl Clark Persistence in appealing denied health insurance claims resulted in overturned decisions between 30% and 78% percent of the time, when the case reached independent review organizations (IROs), an analysis of completed external appeals showed. Among 51,394 closed cases in New York state from May 31, 2019 to Dec.
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