Month: January 2024
Instead of relying on a test of your infectiousness from Covid-19 and symptoms to determine the need to isolate, California now is ignoring the test results. California’s Department of Health recently made major changes to its isolation requirements, one based on symptoms alone. On January 9, Tomás J. Aragón, M.D., Dr.P.H., director of the CDPH, ...
Unlike emergency savings accounts that employers have rolled out over the past few years, these new SECURE 2.0 pension-linked accounts have auto-enrollment but employees must be given the chance to opt out.
Every year, thousands of bankers, venture capitalists, private equity investors, and other moneybags flock to San Francisco’s Union Square to pursue deals. Scores of security guards keep the homeless, the snoops, and the patent-stealers at bay, while the dealmakers pack into the cramped Westin St. Francis hotel and its surrounds to meet with cash-hungry executives ...
Are you acting like it’s summer during the winter months? That’s what TikTok users have been asking as conversations about slowing down during the winter are going viral. For instance, TikTok creator Alex Mazerolle, a New York yoga instructor, posted a video on Jan. 3 referring to a chat with a friend. She asked him, “Are you ...
The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange closed the 2023 fiscal year with over $11.5 million in cash reserves for the fiscal year 2024, and projects an annual cost-saving of 20% in the fiscal year 2024.
The university on Tuesday unveiled a $500 million to $550 million three-phase plan to expand its campus in Summerlin from a few office buildings to a full-fledged medical school campus.
Drug companies often increase prices at the start of the new year, and 2024 seems to be no exception. There have been about 600 price hikes so far in January, according to the drug price nonprofit 46Brooklyn Research. But the increases haven’t been as steep as they were in some previous years. In the 2010s, drug ...
Rule would require Medicare Advantage organizations, Medicaid and other government-sponsored health programs to include specific reasons for denying requests
This year promises to be a Super Bowl of telehealth, according to plans by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). The year 2024 has at least two major factors that could be hugely influential for telehealth, according to the organization and its affiliated ATA Action advocacy nonprofit. It’s a presidential election year, and it will bring the ...
Wages have not been able to offset the rising costs of premiums for workers with employer-sponsored coverage over the last three decades, with Black and Hispanic employees hit particularly hard by this development, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. One possible remedy would be for companies to base premiums on how much individuals get paid; with those ...