The agency is sending payments to more than 7,600 healthcare providers nationwide this week to help them as staffing challenges and heightened labor expenses pose new financial challenges.
Michael Cantor is a geriatrician with more than two decades of experience in the healthcare industry.
The hospital lobby also is renewing its push in requesting the Federal Trade Commission investigate travel-nurse staffing firms for anticompetitive behavior as facilities have seen elevated pay rates throughout the pandemic.
Though progress has been made, compliance with parity laws is still patchwork in the U.S., even as COVID-19 continues to throw disparities in health access into sharp relief.
The effort aims to gauge whether providers receiving federal relief funds to help survive the pandemic complied with restrictions on unexpected bills for COVID-19 inpatients.
Signs point toward another historic year in VC investment, experts say, which will benefit the medical system as it evolves to encapsulate more digital services.
With other COVID-19 treatments ineffective against the variant or in short supply, the FDA is expanding its approval of Veklury to include outpatient use.
An overload of bureaucratic tasks, such as charting and paperwork, was doctors’ No. 1 reason for burnout, affecting 60% of those polled by Medscape.
The lawsuit claims nixing the mandate the Trump administration put in place is a “bait and switch.”
Resuming the process of determining whether people are still eligible for Medicaid may sound easy, but stakeholders caution it’s much more nuanced than flipping a switch, and poor planning risks massive enrollment losses.