Stay in the know with Becker's Hospital Review's weekly roundup of the nation's biggest healthcare news. Here's what you need to know this week.
1. The 2 actions Trump took on healthcare Thursday
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday morning easing restrictions on association health plans, short-term insurance coverage and health reimbursement agreements. Later in the day, he ended cost-sharing reduction subsidies to insurers — a move that will take effect immediately with no transition period.
2. Dignity Health hospital to cover all of Las Vegas shooting victims' medical bills
While some Las Vegas hospitals said they plan to use the influx of donations they have received to help pay for some of the medical costs incurred by victims of the Oct. 1 shooting, one area hospital claimed it would foot the entire bill for all injured victims.
3. 10 cities that added the most hospital jobs in 10 years
Hospitals across the country have fueled job creation and helped slash unemployment rates significantly in the past decade.
4. Police fired for forcibly arresting U of Utah nurse to appeal decision
A lawyer on behalf of Detective Jeff Payne, who was fired Tuesday for forcibly arresting a nurse at Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Hospital in July, said Mr. Payne plans to appeal the "unfair" decision.
5. CMS revokes physician's Medicare billing privileges over $670 in questionable charges
Bryan Merrick, MD, a physician at McKenzie (Tenn.) Medical Center who has been practicing medicine for more than three decades, claimed CMS is pulling his Medicare billing privileges due to clerical errors.
6. Physician assistant median salary for all 50 states
The median annual salary for full-time clinical physician assistants was $102,000 in 2016, an increase of 5.2 percent over the year prior.
7. Wildfires close 2 hospitals in Northern California
Firefighters are battling more than a dozen wildfires across Northern California that forced more than 20,000 people to evacuate the region.
8. Community hospitals in crisis mode after wildfires shut down Kaiser, Sutter hospitals
Sutter Santa Rosa (Calif.) Regional Hospital and Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa (Calif.) Medical Center, two of the largest hospitals in the area, have been closed since Monday due to wildfires. With the two facilities shut down, some community hospitals have seen a significant influx of patients.
9. Former Cleveland Clinic executive pleads guilty in $2.7M fraud scheme
The former executive director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations, the development and commercialization arm of Cleveland Clinic, pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy to defraud the hospital system out of more than $2.7 million.
10. Tenet sells hospital to Loyola with eye on exiting Chicago market
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare reached a definitive agreement to sell MacNeal Hospital, a 368-bed community hospital in Berwyn, Ill., and its affiliated operations to Chicago-based Loyola Medicine.