As healthcare continues its digital transformation, questions arise about what role technology such as remote patient monitoring and virtual healthcare platforms will actually play in a post-pandemic. “In a sense, COVID has provided an opportunity for healthcare stakeholders to improve and try to focus on leveraging these innovations to better manage healthcare services,” said Jailandra ...

A new report by the Urban Institute, funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, anticipates that 15 million people could be out of Medicaid coverage when the pandemic public health emergency ends. Medicaid enrollment initially swelled as a result of early pandemic joblessness and continuous coverage requirement of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, according to ...

When Denise Williams’ baby boy was 2 months old, she became alarmed by a rattling sound in his lungs and took him to the emergency room. While undergoing treatment, he spiraled into a disabling neurological disorder. Now 2 years old, Markeano is attached to breathing and feeding tubes. He can’t walk or move his arms. ...

House Democrats are devising a $3.5 trillion domestic policy package that includes billions of dollars in hospital infrastructure, health manpower, nursing shortages and increased insurance coverage. The House Energy and Commerce Committees, and Method and Means Committees that share jurisdiction over health spending and programs, passed their bill provisions this week in line with party ...

Hospital industry groups are pushing back against a proposal to jack up fines for health systems that don’t publish their prices, arguing that facilities are putting all their resources behind combating the COVID-19 pandemic. The groups wrote in comments to the 2022 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rule strongly opposing a proposal to apply ...

Despite a pandemic-fueled recession, the number of uninsured Americans has increased only slightly since 2018, according to Census Bureau health insurance data released Tuesday. Twenty-eight million people, or 8.6% of Americans, were uninsured for all of 2020. In 2019, 8% of people were uninsured during the full year; in 2018, it was 8.5%. During a press conference, ...