Month: July 2023
Friday Health Plans of Nevada’s assets will be sold on Sept. 1 and those still insured by the company will need to find a new health insurer on or before Aug. 31 to avoid a gap in coverage, according to a news release from the state Division of Insurance.
The Nevada legislature recently passed Senate Bill 370 (“Nevada’s Consumer Health Data Privacy Law”) aiming to impose broad requirements on collecting, using, and selling consumer health information. Nevada joins Washington and Connecticut with its own consumer health data privacy law.
HCA Healthcare Inc. says it recently discovered that information on as many as 11 million patients “was made available by an unknown and unauthorized party on an online forum.”
More than one third of Americans living in rural areas skipped medical care they needed due to the costs, according to a new study. The Commonwealth Fund’s 2020 International Health Policy Survey found that 36 percent of rural Americans did not get the care they needed due to costs, which is more than double the rate for ...
As hospitals acquire ambulatory care centers, consumers are more likely to be forced to pay outpatient facility fees for routine care traditionally covered by physician offices at lower costs. These new costs, appearing seemingly out of nowhere to the average consumer through out-of-pocket spending and premium increases, can add up to hundreds or thousands of ...
If you’re trying to beat the heat this summer, you might want to reconsider what you’re eating and drinking. A punishing summer heat wave is baking large swaths of the country, exposing millions of Americans to triple-digit temperatures. Experts say making sure that you’re properly hydrated and your body has enough energy is essential to helping you ...
Every summer, as temperatures rise, Phoenix-area doctors begin seeing more patients with heat-related symptoms but a deadly heat wave entering its fourth week with temperatures above 110 degrees is taking its toll on even the most heat-acclimated populations. Temperatures have been sweltering since early June, beginning in Texas. Then a ridge of high-pressure parked its breaks over the Southwest in July, and the ...
Teladoc Health (TDOC.N) is expanding a partnership with Microsoft (MSFT.O) to use the tech giant’s artificial intelligence services to automate clinical documentation on the telehealth platform, lifting its shares 6% in premarket trade. The integration of AI including Microsoft’s services with technology from OpenAI, owner of viral chatbot ChatGPT, will help ease the burden on healthcare staff during virtual ...
COVID relief funds helped almost 75% of U.S. hospitals post positive operating income during the height of the pandemic, according to a new analysis that questions if the federal aid was too generous or misdirected. Why it matters: The findings counter the industry narrative that the pandemic left many facilities in the red and grappling with ...
The U.S. has suspended federal funding to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) for failing to provide documentation related to concerns over biosafety protocol violations at the facility that has faced questions for years over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) also said it wants to ...