January 26, 2021
Large hospitals and health systems have been inconsistent in their approaches to compliance with a major new rule that requires […] Read More
January 21, 2021
With COVID-19 patients pushing hospitals across Southern Nevada to near capacity, one Las Vegas hospital issued a disaster declaration over the weekend. St. Rose Dominican Hospital, San Martin campus, issued the declaration Saturday, when a surge in patients increased occupancy in its intensive care unit to 137 percent, according to an email obtained by the Review-Journal that was sent by the administration to hospital physicians. Read More
January 21, 2021
With most Americans focused on COVID-19 vaccines, pharmaceutical companies are quietly raising the list prices of name-brand prescription drugs at a torrid pace. January is […] Read More
January 21, 2021
President Biden plans Thursday to issue a new national strategy to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and to take executive […] Read More
January 19, 2021
California lawmakers are wasting little time debating the $227 billion budget proposal Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week. In a break with the normally slow-moving process that drags out for months, budget committees in both the Assembly and state Senate convened this week to review the governor's spending plan, which includes immediate financial relief to families and businesses hard hit by the pandemic. Read More
January 19, 2021
A COVID financial relief program which helps small businesses continue to pay workers resumed offering loans this week, the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was reopened to businesses that did not receive a first round forgivable PPP loan on Monday. The program expanded to accept applications from certain businesses that did receive funding during the first round (so-called “Second Draw” businesses) on Wednesday. Read More
January 19, 2021
CMS will raise Medicare Advantage plan payments by 4.08%, the agency announced Friday. It also signed off on its controversial proposal to complete a multiyear phase-in of a new payment methodology. The new process will adjust plan payments using diagnoses solely from encounter data—information created by healthcare providers about patients’ medical conditions and treatment. Read More
January 19, 2021
A new KFF analysis examines how new federal rules on price transparency for health services may affect patient decision-making and market […] Read More
January 19, 2021
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday proposed a $1.9 trillion rescue package to combat the economic downturn and the […] Read More
January 19, 2021
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Friday said he would order increased production of syringes and other supplies to ramp up […] Read More