Governor-elect Ralph Northam (D) named Dan Carey, MD, CMO of Lynchburg, Va.-based Centra Health, secretary of , according to The News & Advance.
Leadership & Management
As the personal and professional failings of individual executives begin to gain public attention, there are actions boards can take to stop corporate misbehavior, according to the Harvard Business Review.
President Donald Trump supports the healthcare stabilization measures proposed by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and will encourage Congress to pursue their passages in January, according to The Hill.
House leaders proposed a new stopgap funding bill Thursday that includes $2.85 billion for the Children's Health Insurance Program, according to The Hill.
Winona (Minn.) Health will lay off 17 employees, eliminate 25 vacant positions and reduce some full-time positions to part-time in an effort to reduce costs, according to the Winona Daily News.
President Donald Trump said the Republican tax bill's repeal of the individual insurance mandate effectively ends the ACA, according to Politico.
Calling patients "consumers" reduces the role of physicians to "providers," who are essentially assembly line workers, writes Chuck Dinerstein, MD, a retired vascular surgeon and senior medical fellow at the American Council on Science and Health.
HHS has yet to post 99 percent of the comments related to a request for information on how to remove barriers to participation and improve funding equality for religious organizations involved in healthcare, according to a report from Politico.
Though Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, previously said she would only vote for the Republican tax bill if Congressional leaders promised to include Alexander-Murray and reinsurance provisions in their year-end funding bill, she voted for the tax bill Wednesday and later…
While many people believe ethics scandals are the result of a single bad apple, there are actually organizational trends that can indicate if a company is on its way to an ethics scandal, according to the Harvard Business Review.