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The new coverage option was established through a rule issued by the Trump administration last year and could be helpful for workers whose income is too high to qualify for the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits that help pay for policies sold on the individual market.
As the winter surge picks up and cases skyrocket daily, health officials report that backup clinicians are becoming much harder to find.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
A health journalist, a physician and a former foreign correspondent sits down with Dr. Anthony Fauci for a lengthy Q&A about safety during Covid times.
False negatives increase the risk that patients will not self-isolate or exercise other precautions — such as wearing a mask — and make more people sick than if they had had an accurate diagnosis.
At 21 drive-thru sites, anyone can now provide a sample by swishing a cotton swab around their mouths, putting it in a tube and dropping it in a receptacle on their way out — all within the comfort of their cars.
Lab personnel say worries are mounting over the safety of a rapid coronavirus test by Abbott Laboratories particularly, the risk of infection to those handling it.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Together, they would issue the nation’s first stay-at-home order, likely saving thousands of lives and charting the course for much of the country.
Fewer than 100 people so far have been treated with plasma through the emergency avenues approved by the FDA, according to the AABB, an international nonprofit focused on transfusion medicine and cellular therapies.
HHS confirmed Friday it would give hospitals and doctors money according to their historical share of revenue from the Medicare program for seniors — not according to their coronavirus burden.
The CMS audits are designed to curb overcharging by Medicare Advantage plans, to which the government pays more than $200 billion a year, but the audits are years behind schedule, largely because of industry opposition.
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In addition to lung damage, many Covid-19 patients are also developing heart problems — and dying of cardiac arrest.
The Cold War-era law gives federal officials the power to edge out the competition and force contractors to provide supplies to them before filling orders for other customers.
Under guidelines released Tuesday by an international nonprofit agency, dozens of community blood centers nationwide could become a key source for the century-old treatment known as convalescent plasma therapy.
Hospitals need to clear out patients who no longer need acute care. But nursing homes don’t want to take patients discharged from hospitals for fear they’ll bring the coronavirus with them.
A high-ranking federal official in late February warned that the U.S. needed to plan for not having enough personal protective equipment for medical workers as they began to battle the novel coronavirus, according to internal emails obtained by Kaiser Health News.