Congress has been mulling changes to antitrust enforcement in the U.S., but the American Hospital Association is wary of any changes to the existing legal and regulatory framework for evaluating mergers and acquisitions, telling lawmakers in a letter t…
The spread of the Delta variant is prolonging the shortage of workers across the healthcare industry, straining hospital profitability and adding to burnout rates, according to a report from Moody’s Investor Service.
Hospitals getting accreditation review and the process itself were impacted by COVID-19 in 2020, a recently-released annual report shows.
The Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) has identified deficiencies in acute care and critical access …
COVID-19 vaccinations may have helped prevent hundreds of thousands of new COVID-19 infections and tens of thousands of deaths among seniors, finds a new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Due largely to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic and its continued effects on American healthcare, employers are expecting their health costs to rise more than 5% in 2022, according to a new Willis Towers Watson survey.
Johnson & Johnson has submitted data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to support use of a booster shot of the J & J COVID-19 vaccine in individuals 18 years of age and older.
The Health Resources andServices Administration (HRSA) has sent a letter to Boehringer Ingelheim ordering the pharmaceutical company to comply with federal requirements under the 340B drug pricing program.
Costs linked to helicopter air ambulance services among commercial insurers have risen 27.6% since 2017, a substantial increase that has inflated costs from $19,210 to $24,507 in 2020, according to a new analysis from FAIR Health.
Centene, like other insurers before it, will be broadening its reach in the Medicare Advantage space in 2022, expanding into 327 new counties and three new states: Massachusetts, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
In all, this represents a 26% expansion of Centene…
Oscar Health also recently made similar partnerships with two health systems in Florida.
