Big changes in Medicaid payments to providers and managed care plans aren't likely this year as state budgets recover, Medicaid rolls shrink and the U.S. economy sheds its pandemic woes.
The Leapfrog Group compiled patient experience survey data from hospitals, outpatient surgery departments, ambulatory surgical centers and children's hospitals to show trends across the industry.
Total revenue among hospitals that announced deals in the first half of 2021 was $17.2 billion, which was the second-highest tally since 2015.
McKesson Corp. will sell a majority of its European businesses to the Phoenix Group in order to concentrate its resources in other areas.
The Justice Department alleged Alere continued to market a blood monitoring device to patients, despite defects that led to serious injury.
While much progress has been made since COVID immunizations first became available, there are still too many communities around the country where protection doesn't run as deep as we need it to be.
Leadership and new employees will need to be fully vaccinated by Aug. 24, and all other workers will have until Sept. 21 to get immunized or face termination,
The recent emergence of a virus that typically sickens children in colder months has baffled U.S. pediatricians and put many infants in the hospital with troublesome coughs and breathing trouble.
Interim CEO Don Smithburg said federal pandemic-relief funding provided “only a temporary reprieve from financial challenges that have been persistent for years."
The Food and Drug Administration said the change is intended to address confusion among physicians and patients about who should get the drug, which has faced an intense public backlash since its approval last month.
