One emergency department has already shut down; Some hospitals are evacuating, some are taking in patients. All are bracing for the worst and not just in terms of operations.
Category: Health Insurance
Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you don’t have to.
Nurse practitioners can help ease the physician shortage, right? Not so fast
With both doctors and nurses in high-demand, more education and diversity is needed, and there are steps hospitals can take now to address the problem.
CMS waives certain Medicare, Medicaid requirements, activates emergency dialysis measures in Carolinas ahead of Florence
Agency has issued blankets waivers to unburden providers, opened special enrollment period for Medicare beneficiaries to get, change coverage.
ACA expansion did not improve access to complex surgeries for low-income, minority patients
That result surprised researchers, since the ACA’s Medicaid expansion has increased access to surgical care overall.
Insurer investment in housing reduces healthcare costs, AHIP says
Hospitalization rates and emergency room use can be up to three to four times higher for those without a home.
Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ A Detour On A Smoking Off-Ramp
In this episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Sarah Jane Tribble of Kaiser Health News, Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal, Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner and Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call talk about the Food and Drug Administration’s latest actions to address teenagers’ use of e-cigarettes, Arkansas’ Medicaid work requirements and news about the uninsured from the latest federal Census report.
Most Americans disapprove of how Trump, Congress is addressing prescription drug costs, poll shows
Americans are dissatisfied with how both parties in Congress are handling the issue, with Democrats and Republicans faring almost equally poorly.
Hurricane Florence: Lessons from hospitals that survived recent natural disasters
Here are some of the things hospitals should be working to put in place and resources available during storm season.
Is ‘Precision Medicine’ The Answer To Cancer? Not Precisely.
Doctors and hospitals love to talk about the patients they’ve saved with precision medicine, and reporters love to write about them. But the people who die still vastly outnumber the rare successes.
