[ad_1] A COVID-19 patient was in respiratory distress. The Army nurse knew she had to act quickly. It was the peak of this year’s omicron surge and an […]

[ad_1] A series of deaths at a hospital for elderly patients in Shanghai is underscoring the dangerous consequences of China’s stubborn pursuit of a zero-COVID approach amid an […]

[ad_1] Medicaid payment advisors on Friday recommend policymakers improve transparency of managed care directed payments, which are commonly used to increase Medicaid payment to hospitals. The Medicaid and […]

[ad_1] $347. That was the average out-of-pocket cost for sexual assault survivors who received forensic exam services as part of a rape kit from 2016 to 2018, the […]

[ad_1] In the summer of 2015, Andy Slavitt didn’t have time for maybes. Slavitt, then-administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, had spent all year working […]

[ad_1] In the latest battle of the coronavirus mutants, an extra-contagious version of omicron has taken over the world. The coronavirus version known as BA.2 is now dominant […]

[ad_1] The Health and Human Services Department’s Thursday release of a draft plan to tackle environmental health issues looks very similar to its environmental justice strategy outlined in […]

[ad_1] Medicare pay advisors said Friday they have zeroed in on a strategy to streamline Medicare alternative payment models, which includes removing the ratcheting effect that makes earning […]

[ad_1] The U.S. is getting a first glimpse of what it’s like to experience COVID-19 outbreaks during this new phase of living with the virus, and the roster […]

[ad_1] The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will phase out pandemic-related temporary waivers to nursing home regulations, the agency announced Thursday. The changes are being made because […]