Susan Morse

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Oscar shareholder claims insurer misled IPO investors 

Oscar Health shareholder Lorin Carpenter is suing Oscar Health CEO Mario Schlosser and others asking for class action status, claiming the insurer misled investors about the costs associated with COVID-19 when they bought Class A common stock in the co…

Public health emergency will continue beyond July, Bloomberg reports

The Department of Health and Human Services will extend the public health emergency beyond the current end date of July 15, Bloomberg has reported.

AHA and ANA praise leniency in sentencing for RaDonda Vaught

The American Hospital Association and the American Nurses Association said they are grateful for the court’s leniency in sentencing former nurse RaDonda Vaught to three-years probation instead of prison time for giving the wrong drug to a 75-year old p…

National Institutes of Health teams with WHO to license COVID-19 technologies

The National Institutes of Health has announced an agreement with the World Health Organization and the Medicines Patent Pool to make COVID-19 health technologies available worldwide.

Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health announce merger

Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health are merging and plan to transition to the new brand, Advocate Health, the organizations have announced.
The new organization will have a combined footprint across Illinois, Wisconsin, North Carolina, South Carol…

AHA asks HHS to continue the public health emergency until conditions stabilize

The American Hospital Association and more than a dozen other provider organizations have asked Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to keep the public health emergency until it is clear that the global pandemic has ended.

The pandemic is entering a new phase, but it’s not over, expert says

As the United States closes in on a million deaths due to COVID-19, experts from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on Tuesday weighed in on what’s next during “A New Phase of COVID-19: What Lies Ahead – from Surges to Long-Haulers.” 

Between 5.3 and 14.2 million people could lose Medicaid coverage at the end of the PHE

Between 5.3 million and 14.2 million low-income people could lose Medicaid coverage following the end of the public health emergency, KFF researchers find in a

BlueJeans unveils embedded telehealth function at ATA2022

BOSTON – At ATA2022, BlueJeans announced the next stage in its telehealth services offerings through a more personalized experience for providers and patients. 
Providers can now embed the telehealth function on their website rather than through an app…

FDA limits use of the J&J Janssen COVID-19 vaccine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has limited the use of the  Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine due to rare blood clotting instances of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) after receiving the vaccine.