Carol Gentry
WUSF
Saint Petersburg, FL, United States
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Doctors With Multiple Malpractice Settlements Face Little Discipline In Florida
When appendicitis struck a young mother vacationing in St. Pete Beach eight years ago, she was rushed to Palms of Pasadena Hospital. There, Dr. Ernest → Read More
Doctors With Multiple Malpractice Settlements Face Little Discipline In Florida
When appendicitis struck a young mother vacationing in St. Pete Beach eight years ago, she was rushed to Palms of Pasadena Hospital. There, Dr. Ernest → Read More
Joint-Replacement Pay Project Launches in 19 FL Counties
For most hospitals in Florida, Medicare is changing the way it pays for hip- and knee-replacement operations to ensure that patients get the right care at the right time at the right price for taxpayers. On Friday, hospitals in most metro areas of the state were forced to take on financial risk for all spending related to their Medicare joint-replacement patients that occur within 90 days after… → Read More
Balance Billing Solution Proposed
A state official who wants to rescue insured patients from surprise health-care bills has crafted a road map for the Florida Legislature’s upcoming session → Read More
Alzheimer's Trial Struggles To Find Participants
When you’ve been diagnosed with an incurable disease, there’s a huge incentive to sign up for a drug trial. But what if you’re healthy? What’s the → Read More
Cigna Pulls Out Of FL Marketplace, Cites Abuse
Two weeks before the federal Health Insurance Marketplace opens for enrollment, a major national company is withdrawing its Florida plans from the exchange → Read More
Museum Calls Psychiatry "Industry Of Death"
Videos accusing psychiatrists and the drug industry of inventing diseases and defrauding the public are the centerpiece of a modest storefront museum that quietly opened this summer in downtown Clearwater. They suggest that many drugs prescribed for anxiety, depression and other mental-health conditions are responsible for mass shootings and other violence. The museum, “Psychiatry: Industry of… → Read More
Museum Calls Psychiatry "Industry Of Death"
Videos accusing psychiatrists and the drug industry of inventing diseases and defrauding the public are the centerpiece of a modest storefront museum that → Read More
Former Lawmaker Faces Medical Board Discipline
Orthopedic surgeon Edward Homan, who served eight years in the Florida House of Representatives, is the latest high-profile physician to be publicly → Read More
Univita Health Losing Medicaid Contracts
Univita Health, which gained control of the entire Florida Medicaid home-care market a year ago, has suddenly lost all of its HMO contracts. The Florida → Read More
‘Right to Try’ May Be Hard to Implement
While the “Right to Try Act,” which aims to give dying patients the right to try unapproved experimental drugs, is law in Florida as of today, its → Read More
Medicaid Managed Care Rates Considered
Medicaid health plans, which lost $543 million in the first half-year of Florida’s Statewide Medicaid Managed Care program, have been hoping for major rate → Read More
Hospital Need, Other Health Bills Considered
A bill that would overturn 40 years of hospital regulation in Florida is one of half a dozen contentious issues scheduled for a key House committee this → Read More
HCA Hospitals, Humana in Contract Dispute
Humana has sent letters to its Florida customers alerting them that as of July 10, HCA hospitals will no longer be part of the insurer’s network. When it → Read More
Board Calls for VBAC Doc's Suspension
One of Florida’s most experienced OB-GYNs was “grossly negligent” in attempting a vaginal delivery in a risky case that ended in a stillbirth, the Florida → Read More
Board Calls for VBAC Doc's Suspension
One of Florida's most experienced OB-GYNs was "grossly negligent" in attempting a vaginal delivery in a risky case that ended in a stillbirth, the Florida → Read More
Doc Hailed for VBAC Delivery Under Fire
The most controversial issue in childbirth – when to let nature take its course, when to do surgery – underlies a state complaint to go before the Florida → Read More
Surgical Error Punishment A Tough Call
Two years ago, a little boy with a leaky heart valve was rolled into the operating room at Arnold Palmer Children’s Hospital in Orlando. Before starting → Read More
Hospitals Hesitant to Give Commission Data
Gov. Rick Scott, who last week asked the state's hospitals to provide a large amount of financial data by Monday, will not get all that he asked for → Read More
Hospitals Hesitant to Give Commission Data
Gov. Rick Scott, who last week asked the state's hospitals to provide a large amount of financial data by Monday, will not get all that he asked for that → Read More