The verdict represents the end of just one legal fight between TeamHealth and UnitedHealthcare.
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The verdict represents the end of just one legal fight between TeamHealth and UnitedHealthcare.
The court order said that CMS had no clear authority from Congress to enact the vaccine mandate for providers participating in the two government healthcare programs for the elderly, disabled and poor.
Dr. Akram Boutros will retire as president and CEO of MetroHealth at the end of 2022 after leading the public health system since 2013, he announced on Monday, Nov. 29.
The health system will solicit project ideas from clinicians and patients to address health equity and accessibility challenges.
Rush said it's investigating potential financial misappropriation by a former executive at its Oak Park hospital. The health system did not say how much money was involved.
The state is also offering to pay temporary pharmacists in order to bolster workforces, but only at independent pharmacies.
From just over 200 new confirmed cases per day in recent weeks, South Africa saw the number of new daily cases rocket to more than 3,200 on Saturday.
The world should now be “wide awake” to the threat of the coronavirus, “but omicron’s very emergence is another reminder that although many of us might think we are done with COVID-19. It’s not done with us,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
The Build Back Better Act wields a stick against the expansion holdout states but strikes it squarely on providers that had little say in the expansion decisions.
Cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in countries on opposite sides of the world Sunday and many governments rushed to close their borders even as scientists cautioned that it's not clear if the new variant is more alarming than other versions of the virus.
A World Health Organization panel named the variant "omicron" and classified it as a highly transmissible virus of concern, the same category that includes the delta variant.
Stocks sank Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly falling more than 1,000 points, as a new coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa appeared to be spreading across the globe.
It's unclear where the new variant actually arose, but it was first detected by scientists in South Africa and has now been seen in travelers to Belgium, Botswana, Hong Kong and Israel.
The researchers — whose findings were published Friday, Nov. 26, in the journal Science Advances — note that the discovery could lead to treatments for other future viruses.
Federal health regulators say an experimental COVID-19 pill from Merck is effective against the virus, but they will seek input from outside experts on risks of birth defects and other potential problems during pregnancy.