Susan Morse

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has updated the Medicare fee-for-service payment rates and policies for inpatient hospitals and long-term care hospitals for 2022. 

For the supply chain to work efficiently, physicians need to be involved in decision-making. But physicians must also be onboard with the strategy to take variation out of the system.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 10-4 with one abstention to recommend the Janssen Johnson & Johnson vaccine for persons age 18 and over, under the Food and Drug Administration’s Emerge…

The committee meets from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today in a meeting open to the public.

The Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic are leading a coalition of 60 hospitals and healthcare institutions in a nationwide campaign to encourage adults to get vaccinated against COVID-19. 

Earlier this month, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky declared racism to be a serious public health threat.

Through the American Rescue Plan, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is making nearly $150 million available to community-based healthcare providers to use for COVID-19 response for underserved communities. 
The funds will support approxi…

COVID-19, against a background of growing awareness of health inequities, has expanded how we define population health. New laws, policies and funding have helped spur solutions.

The pause on the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will continue as a federal panel reviews the cases of six women who received the vaccine and developed blood clots.

In a vote of 384-38, the House on Tuesday passed a bill that eliminates the 2% cut to Medicare payments until the end of 2021. 
However, the bill proposes to offset the change by increasing the sequester cuts in 2030.
WHY THIS MATTERS
The cuts were tri…