Private equity investors, with their focus on buying cheap and reaping quick returns, are moving voraciously into the U.S. health care system; investments increased twentyfold from 2000 to 2018, and have only accelerated since. Financially distressed rural hospitals are targets, putting vulnerable communities at the mercy of firms whose North Star is profit, rather than patient health.
Two prominent Democratic senators - Robert Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania and Ron Wyden of Oregon - have requested a Government Accountability Office study of why covid vaccination rates remain far lower among Medicaid enrollees than the general population.
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.
Startup experts and clinicians working on the front lines of the drug and overdose epidemic doubt the flashy Silicon Valley technology will ever reach people in the throes of addiction who are unstably housed, financially challenged, and on the wrong side of the digital divide.
Massachusetts' 11-member Health Policy Commission unanimously concluded that the expansions would drive up spending for commercially insured residents by as much as $90 million a year and boost health insurance premiums.
Nurses and health care workers across the country are finding strength in numbers and with labor actions not seen in years.
The Cuthbert hospital in Georgia was one of 19 rural hospitals in the U.S. that closed in 2020. That’s the largest number of such facilities to shut down in a single year since 2005.
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.
Seeking greater respect for their profession, physician assistants are pushing to rebrand themselves as “physician associates.” Meanwhile rechristening the P.A. name has spiked the blood pressures of physicians.
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.
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.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
In addition to lung damage, many Covid-19 patients are also developing heart problems — and dying of cardiac arrest.
Congratulations. You bought insurance through one of the online Affordable Care Act exchanges, possibly after days or weeks of trying to get the site to work. Don’t relax. Joining the plan is only the first challenge. Now you have to understand it. Policies sold through the online portals — to more than 3 million people […]
ORANGE PARK, Fla. – When Orange Park Medical Center won preliminary state approval in November 2011 to open the first new trauma center in northeast Florida in almost 30 years, executives said the decision would save lives. But that’s not how its competitor 18 miles away saw the move by Orange Park Medical and its […]