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Staff received hazard pay, meals, and in one nursing home, a dedicated space to stay overnight to avoid taking the virus home to their families.

The new five-year partnership has a goal of providing access to quality care for vulnerable individuals in the state.

Hospital associations call the threat from CMS to withhold Medicare and Medicaid participation for non-compliant data reporting "reckless."

CMS will now pay for certain neurostimulator analysis and programming services and cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services. 

The Nebraska health system was able to keep financially afloat during the crisis without layoffs or furloughs.

The groups said prohibiting training that promotes racial reconciliation is counterproductive to addressing racism.

The program is set to begin piloting at select sites in the RWJBarnabas system by completing social determinants of health screenings for patients.

The surging costs of tackling the pandemic are straining public hospital budgets, increasing the need for county support.

Since the government is going to pay for the cost of the vaccine, CMS wants to ensure that insurers will not make cost a barrier, Seema Verma says.