Global digital health funding reaches six-quarter low, at $10.4B
Even as the pandemic continues, digital health funding slowed significantly in the first quarter of 2022, according to new data from CB Insights.
Community health centers facing acute workforce loss
A majority of health centers reported they lost up to a fourth of their workforce in the past six months alone, according to a new survey from the National Association of Community Health Centers.
ACA marketplace premiums decline for third consecutive year, Urban Institute finds
The marketplace is bucking the trend of sustained premium increases for job-based coverage, which provides insurance to a majority of nonelderly Americans.
New York grants nurse practitioners full practice authority
The American Hospital Association pushed back on the findings in a Tuesday statement, saying hospitals provide many community benefits not included in the report.
Providence Health to pay $22M to settle claims of unnecessary neurosurgeries
Two neurosurgeons in Washington state were accused of operating on patients who were not appropriate candidates for surgery and causing excessive complications and negative outcomes.
HHS to request provider data on billing practices under new White House plan to ease medical debt
The department will use this information in grant determinations, and to shape data and policy recommendations to the public. It will also share potential violations with enforcement agencies.
Can digital therapeutics become profitable?
As more software-based treatments gain FDA clearance, they still face hurdles ahead in getting insurance reimbursement and garnering adoption among patients and physicians.
Tax breaks to many nonprofit hospitals exceed charity care provided, Lown Institute finds
The analysis compared the value of hospitals’ tax exemptions to their charity care and community contributions, finding that 227 out of 275 systems gave much less than they received.
More than 4K Stanford nurses vote to strike in California
The nurses’ demands in new contracts focus on recruitment and retention of nursing staff “amid an industry-wide shortage and nurses being exhausted after working through the pandemic, many in short-staffed units,” the union said.
Higher education can help solve America’s nursing shortage
By adapting new tactics, building more flexible ways to credential new nurses and making academic progression more accessible, learning institutions can take critical steps to strengthen America’s core of nurses, the authors argue.