A new website called Goodbill, and eventually coordinating mobile app, works by uploading your insurance card and the appropriate bar codes on the tests and automates the reimbursement process for the user.
The American Medical Association is deeply concerned about threatening behavior and how it has contributed to an increasingly hostile working environment, particularly for those on the front lines of COVID-19 treatment.
A new website called Goodbill, and eventually coordinating mobile app, works by uploading your insurance card and the appropriate bar codes on the tests and automates the reimbursement process for the user.
Scientists have found a previously unrecognized variant of HIV that's more virulent than usual and has quietly circulated in the Netherlands for the past few decades.
The number of lives lost to the pandemic in the U.S. stood at over 897,000 as of midday Friday, with deaths running at an average of more than 2,400 a day, back up to where they were last winter,
The company partners with Medicare Advantage, dual special needs plans and the federal government in value-based care models.
SOC Telemed went public in late 2020 after merging with a special purpose acquisition company.
The potential class could be made up of tens of thousands of employees, according to the lead plaintiff's attorney.
The Biden administration will award $19 million to teaching health centers to support new residency positions.
CMS recouped most of the $107 billion in advance reimbursements already, but some hospitals facing cash crunches could be subject to interest penalties without an extension.
The state attorney general has asked for information on UnitedHealthcare's security networks and patient information systems as well as communication related to the breach.
Will we need boosters every few months? A new vaccine recipe? A new type of shot altogether?
Black, Latino and Asian adults are more likely than their white counterparts to use audio telehealth services rather than video, according to new federal data released Wednesday.
Amedisys plans to buy Evolution Health from Envision Healthcare in a move to further grow its home health footprint.
In 2010, doctors treated Doug Olson’s leukemia with an experimental gene therapy that transformed some of his blood cells into cancer killers. More than a decade later, there's no sign of cancer in his body.
Legal challenges to a new Montana law that prevents most businesses from requiring their employees be vaccinated against any communicable disease are moving forward in federal and state courts.
Parents who thought their children under 5 would have to wait several more months for COVID-19 vaccinations instead just might get them as early as March. Here's what needs to happen first.
Building up the workforce is key to addressing gaps in the behavioral health system, senators said during a hearing.
Magellan Health's pharmacy benefits management division has partnered with Zipline to deliver specialty drugs to members, starting in North Carolina.
Pfizer on Tuesday asked the U.S. to authorize extra-low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5, potentially opening the way for the very youngest Americans to start receiving shots as early as March.
The U.N. health agency reported Tuesday that tens of thousands of tons of extra medical waste has strained waste management systems and is threatening both health and the environment.
Linguistic training is needed as electronic health records play more an increasingly significant role in healthcare, Princeton, UCLA and Harvard researchers write.
U.S. health regulators on Monday granted full approval to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.
Beaumont Health and Grand Rapids' Spectrum Health will launch as one integrated health system on Feb. 1.
Seven insurers cover nearly 70% of Medicare Advantage enrollees as new entrants struggle to gain ground.
With omicron sweeping across the globe, scientists are racing to pinpoint the cause of the bedeviling condition and find treatments before a potential explosion in long COVID cases.
In a few short months, states have gone from donating surplus rapid COVID-19 tests to states with shortages to hoarding them as demand driven by the spike in cases strains supplies.
COVID infections are again spiking at nursing homes around the country.
What does it mean if a person’s rapid antigen test result comes back positive after five days of isolation due to COVID-19? According to the experts, that person is most likely still carrying a viral load high enough to infect others.
Hospitals across Missouri are asking staff members and administrators to take on additional duties to help deal with the current surge in COVID-19 patients.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that hospital employees are being asked to pick up shifts helping nurses by doing things like grabbing supplies or answering phones, or by filling absences in areas such housekeeping and patient transport.
“Hospital administrators are pushing wheelchairs, accountants are emptying trash cans and marketing professionals are serving meals — whatever it takes to make sure that our co-workers who provide hands-on patient care are able to focus on their patients,” said Steve Mackin, Mercy’s incoming president.
At Mercy South Hospital, Katie Horton decided to spend her weekends and evenings over the last two weeks scrubbing patient rooms and helping nurses care for patients. Normally the 49-year-old works from home helping hire people for nonclinical jobs at the hospital.
“It was eye-opening. I work from home. I’ve been very safe through it all, and that has certainly been a blessing,” she said. “I just felt like it was good to be able to see through the eyes of the person doing these jobs.”
COVID-19 cases have been declining in the St. Louis area over the past couple weeks but the number of patients in hospitals remain near the highest levels of the pandemic.
“Our hospitals remain full, our emergency departments are full and there’s not a lot of room in our (intensive care units) either,” said Dr. Alex Garza, co-director of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force. “So, although this is improving, many of our staff continue to be out because of COVID or because they are taking care of a loved one or a child whose school has unfortunately closed because of COVID.”
