[ad_1] California’s 7 million students and school employees are getting free at-home COVID-19 tests to help prevent outbreaks at their school when they return from spring break. The […]
Fragmented regulations exacerbate saline shortage
[ad_1] Different regulations for pharmaceuticals and medical devices are complicating the sodium chloride shortage. Hospitals have been dealing with intermittent shortages of sodium chloride and its related components […]
Oregon to pay $22.5M to settle Medicaid contractor dispute
[ad_1] A long, acrimonious legal battle between state Medicaid contractor FamilyCare Inc. and the Oregon Health Authority has ended with the state agreeing to pay $22.5 million to […]
Illinois health program for undocumented seniors leaves some behind
[ad_1] State lawmakers and policy advocates said they haven’t seen the numbers the department used to justify the carve-outs. “They told us that it’s too expensive,” said state […]
Former nurse guilty of homicide in medication error death
[ad_1] Interviewed after the verdict, Vaught said she was relieved to have a resolution after 4 1/2 years and hopes Murphey’s family is relieved as well. “Ms. Murphey’s […]
Florida suspends Centene’s Medicaid enrollment, fines insurer over tech error
[ad_1] Florida’s healthcare agency has immediately suspended Medicaid and long-term care enrollment in a Centene subsidiary and fined the insurer nearly $9.1 million, after a computer glitch led […]
Feds join lawsuit against EHR vendor ModMed
[ad_1] The federal government will intervene in a False Claims Act lawsuit against electronic health records vendor Modernizing Medicine and its co-founders that became public Friday. The lawsuit […]
Healthcare data breaches
[ad_1] February saw a drop in both breaches and the number of individuals affected vs. January 2022, as well as February of last year. [ad_2] Source link
Why the latest federal spending bill matters to digital health equity
[ad_1] On March 15, President Joe Biden signed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill that included a variety of new initiatives, including aid to Ukraine, infrastructure investment and […]
Senators ask GAO to examine Medicaid’s low COVID vaccination rates
[ad_1] Two prominent Democratic senators have requested a Government Accountability Office study of why COVID vaccination rates remain far lower among Medicaid enrollees than the general population and what […]