It wasn't unusual to see once-competing hospitals become collaborators for resources and staff when the nation faced the first COVID-19 surge in early spring. Now in the face of a second surge, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is ensuring that type…
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and Caravan Health, an ACO provider, are creating an ACO that will work with rural hospitals and providers.
Prior authorization workflows remain highly manual in today's healthcare environment, even with advancements in machine learning and robotics process automation.
Dallas-based Southwestern Health Resources and Humana signed a value-based payment arrangement for Humana's Medicare Advantage members in North Texas, the organizations said Oct. 28.
Three physicians offered their rationales for handling elective surgeries amid a COVID-19 surge in a recent case vignette published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Mercy Hospital Springfield (Mo.) opened an outdoor unit to help treat COVID-19 and flu patients, reports The Springfield News-Leader.
Several healthcare organizations recently closed medical units or terminated services to shore up finances, focus on more in-demand services or prevent patient care lapses. Here are 10 that have announced or completed closures in the last month:
Dothan, Ala.-based Flowers Hospital will end inpatient pediatric services in December, according to local news station WDHN.
A Tennessee hospital is preparing for a potential emergency event tied to the final presidential debate occurring in Nashville Oct. 21, reports NBC affiliate WSMV.
While the COVID pandemic has witnessed a morbid fascination on the death toll from the disease, the epidemic of substance use has raged on in the background.