CMS is encouraging healthcare organizations to reopen facilities for nonemergency care and released a new set of guidelines and considerations for them to follow.
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Emergency department volume fell 49 percent between January and April, with facilities in urban areas seeing the largest drop, according to an analysis from the Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance.
Anthem will provide $2.5 billion in financial assistance to providers and health plan members to ease pressures brought by COVID-19, the insurer said June 4.
In response to challenges exposed by COVID-19, Salem (Ore.) Health plans to restructure, which will include health clinic closures and leadership changes, according to OregonLive.
Humana-owned Partners in Primary Care is opening 20 primary care centers in the next year as it begins phase one of its three-year expansion plan, the medical group said June 2.
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In a recent Q&A session, CarePort Health CEO and founder Lissy Hu, M.D., discussed the value of clinical data stored in EHRs, within the context of the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic. Real-time, cross-continuum data empowers clinicians, researchers and government agencies…
Emergency room visits were down by more than 40 percent in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new CDC report.
At the height of the coronavirus surge in New York City, NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center found itself in a situation where demand for intensive care unit beds far exceeded its capacity, leading the hospital to convert operating rooms and…
Our nation’s public health infrastructure is in shambles. In some cases, it was never built—rendering the public health response stuck in the last century with paper and pencil to track and record disease.
Clinch Memorial Hospital in Homerville, Ga., evacuated patients, staff and visitors June 2 due to a chemical spill near the facility on Highway 84, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.