Enrollment among undocumented immigrant children in California’s Medicaid program started strong before stagnating and then falling. Although this decline is similar to an enrollment decline among all children in Medicaid nationwide, experts believe there are different reasons behind it.
While the unemployment rate remains relatively unchanged at 3.7 percent, the unemployment rate for hospitals stands at about 1.6 percent.
Overall, hospitals in the CJR model saw a 3.7% decrease in average episode payments for lower extremity joint replacements.
Healthcare ranked far below retail when it came to consumer trust in AI, though younger generations were more favorable toward the technology.
The performance is being driven largely by solid expense management during a period of increasing patient volumes.
More than half of facilities met the expected level of staffing less than 20% of the time during the one-year study period.
The federal court declined a request by Republicans for more time; Briefs are to be filed by end-of-day Friday.
After a wave of Democratic women were elected in 2018, Maine joins the handful of states that are shoring up the right to an abortion ahead of expected Supreme Court challenges.
Improvements in surgical readmissions slowed to the same pace they had before any penalties were announced in 2010.
