Falling vaccination rates lead the company to expect the pandemic to be a “modest negative for 2021,” CFO Shawn Guertin said. Previously, it expected COVID-19 to have little to no impact on full-year earnings.
“Companies that choose to proceed with transactions that have not been fully investigated are doing so at their own risk,” the regulator said Tuesday.
A number of states allowed medical professionals licensed elsewhere to hold virtual visits with their residents during the pandemic. While some are making those rollbacks permanent, others are going back to pre-pandemic rules.
Nearly two months since Aduhelm became available, many physicians have yet to use the first treatment approved in the U.S. to slow Alzheimer’s disease.
Hospitals will also receive a 2.5% pay bump for inpatient stays in 2022 under the new rule. That’s lower than the 2.8% proposed in the initial draft released April, but “largely within the range of market expectations,” one analyst wrote.
But researchers cautioned policymakers not to view the results as a reason to avoid reducing Medicare reimbursement.
Health system revenues in June surpassed both 2019 and 2020 levels, though expenses were higher than two years ago, the report found.
After over two decades as head of Americas Technology Banking at Morgan Stanley, Edward Liu will oversee all of the New York-based digital healthcare marketplace’s finances.
A new survey from the Larry A. Green Center and Primary Care Collaborative found that 40% of clinicians worry primary care will be gone in just five years.
Attempts to “defraud the program cannot continue and will be pursued,” DOJ officials said in statement announcing the action against the California-based system.