Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health hopes its hospital-at-home success will encourage more private payers to cover the care model and federal lawmakers to make it a long-term solution. Here are five things to know from a June 2 news release: 1.…
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A question healthcare executives have been whispering is now being said aloud. Several factors are giving the question a far louder microphone. In Florida, there is ongoing litigation between The Leapfrog Group, which grades hospitals twice a year on safety…
HHS Inspector General T. March Bell said Hawaii’s Medicaid fraud control unit is no longer certified — and has lost reimbursements from the federal government, as a result. In a June 4 letter to Hawaii officials, Mr. Bell called out…
In this episode, Erik Summers, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Division of Hospital Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, joins the podcast to discuss how healthcare organizations can attract and retain physicians through culture, transparency, and personalized recruitment experiences.
In this episode, Erik Summers, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Division of Hospital Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, joins the podcast to discuss how healthcare organizations can attract and retain physicians through culture, transparency, and personalized recruitment experiences.
Health system leaders told Becker’s they’re encouraged by AI developer Anthropic opening up its Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative to healthcare, though the participant list remains largely unnamed. The company launched the project in April after opting not to publicly release…
CMS on June 1 published the interim final rule outlining how states will carry out Medicaid work requirements. The rule sets the operational framework for a policy hospitals warn will push eligible patients off coverage and drive up uncompensated care.…
Med-Metrix has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vitalware, a cloud-based revenue integrity and chargemaster management software company, from Salt Lake City-based Health Catalyst. The deal adds Vitalware’s mid-revenue cycle software capabilities to Med-Metrix’s existing technology-enabled revenue cycle management…
Nurses represented by Health Professionals and Allied Employees Local 5105 have ratified a new three-year labor agreement with Virtua Mount Holly (N.J.) Hospital. The union represents nearly 850 nurses at the 383-bed facility, according to a union news release shared…
When compared to chemotherapy, a drug targeting oncogenic RAS mutations extended overall and progression-free survival for patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer, according to a study published May 31 in The New England Journal of Medicine. The third-leading cause of cancer…