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 …
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.
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 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.
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…
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…
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.”
The vendor announced that it was collaborating with New York Life to facilitate and simplify EHR retrieval.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is extending the special enrollment period for Affordable Care Act coverage from May 15 until August 15.
The action provides new and current enrollees an additional three months to enroll or re-evaluate th…
America’s Health Insurance Plans has praised the introduction of a bill that would improve access to audio-only telehealth for seniors in Medicare Advantage. The bill, which was originally introduced in July 2020, was revived by the U.S. House of Repre…
