Just days after the Biden Administration advised providers that abortions are protected under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, the Department of Health and Human Services has released guidance saying that as recipients of federal …
Beginning this week, Mayo Clinic Laboratories will begin testing for monkeypox using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s orthopoxvirus test, which detects most non-smallpox related orthopoxviruses, including monkeypox.
CDC Director Dr. Roc…
UnitedHealth Group’s provider arm, Optum Health, has teamed up with Red Ventures on a new consumer health-focused joint venture, RVO Health, which among other things includes doctor ratings through Healthgrades.
Red Ventures is a portfolio of bands tha…
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signed an ordinance into law which raises the minimum wage for healthcare workers to $25 per hour at eligible private healthcare facilities.
The American Medical Association has criticized the new Medicare payment schedule proposed rule released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, saying it fails to account for inflation in practice costs and “COVID-19-related chall…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the Department of Defense, announced it has secured 3.2 million doses of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine.
The protein-based, adjuvanted vaccine will be made available for free to state…
New legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to avoid a shortfall in the Medicare Hospital Insurance Fund by closing tax loopholes and redirecting tax revenue in a push to keep the fund solvent by at least another decade.
There is a low risk of transmission of monkeypox in healthcare settings, according to a June study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston combed through the literature over the …
The federal government under the Biden Administration has made a push to ensure abortion access as part of emergency medical care, with Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra telling providers this week that pregnant women and others experi…
CVS Health has named Tilak Mandadi as executive vice president and to the newly created role of chief data, digital and technology Officer. The company said Mandadi’s tenure in the new roles will begin on July 25.
Mandadi will be responsible for the co…
