Top Medicare and Medicaid officials want to create a “universal foundation” of quality measures aligned across all programs in a bid to ease reporting burdens and confusion. Officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services called for aligning quality measures across more than 20 agency programs in a letter in The New England Journal of ...
Children in California won’t have to get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools, state public health officials confirmed Friday, ending one of the last major restrictions of the pandemic in the nation’s most populous state. Gov. Gavin Newsom first announced the policy in 2021, saying it would eventually apply to all of California’s 6.7 million public and ...
The fear started when a few patients saw their nurses and dietitians posting job searches on LinkedIn. Word spread to Facebook groups, and patients started calling Coram CVS, a major U.S. supplier of the compounded IV nutrients on which they rely for survival. To their dismay, CVS Health confirmed the rumors on June 1: It ...
CVS Health Corp (CVS.N) is close to an agreement to buy primary care center operator Oak Street Health Inc (OSH.N) for about $10.5 billion including debt, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The companies are discussing a price of about $39 a share, the newspaper said. The deal, if it goes through, could be ...
Just under 100,000 people signed up for insurance through Nevada’s health insurance exchange during the latest enrollment period, according to the state.
The number of new COVID-19 cases continues to drop in Clark County, with Nevada among a handful of states with all of its counties experiencing low levels of the disease.