Late last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services lifted a suspension on hospital surveys and said most on-site survey activity will now resume as normal.
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Coronavirus likely escaped from a Wuhan lab, says former CDC Director Robert Redfield
The World Health Organization is expected to release its report tomorrow on the origin of the coronavirus as former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield stirs the controversy that it was inadvertently leaked from a la…
Senate passes moratorium to Medicare sequester cuts
The Senate on Thursday passed H.R. 1868, a bill that will prevent the 2% Medicare sequester cuts that hospitals and physicians opposed.
The bill passed with an amendment added by Senators Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, to …
AHIP submits testimony for Senate hearing on COVID-19 and improving health equity
This week, America’s Health Insurance Plans submitted testimony to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for a hearing focused on improving health equity and outcomes by addressing health disparities during the COVID-19 response.
American Rescue Plan will be credit positive for nonprofit hospitals, says Fitch
The American Rescue Plan contains a number of measures that would subtly improve the revenue profile and reduce cost pressures for nonprofit hospitals, according to Fitch Ratings.
Uber expands prescription delivery with ScriptDrop
Uber is expanding prescription delivery across 37 states in the United States with ScriptDrop.
There are plans for further expansion in the coming weeks and months.
Negative operating margins likely to haunt 39% of hospitals in 2021
With scores of Americans getting vaccinated by the day, hospitals are slowly allowing themselves to feel optimistic about their financial recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. But even in the best case scenario, 39% of hospitais will likely have negativ…
athenahealth attempts to tackle physician burnout through medical coding
Provider burnout is a persistent problem in healthcare, and has only been made worse by the added pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic. To address this, software and services company athenahealth has rolled out its new Medical Coding solution that aims t…
How health systems should be preparing now for the future of hospital at home
As CMS signals longer-term changes in acute RPM reimbursement and Amazon teams with major providers to push for new policies, clinical and IT leaders should start planning ahead, says one expert. “Everyone has to be thinking about this.”
Cerner makes moves into the life insurance game
The vendor announced that it was collaborating with New York Life to facilitate and simplify EHR retrieval.
