Search Results

The default setting for search results displays All Content. If you prefer to see recent content only, please adjust the date filter.

58140 Results Found

Report: Fully adopting transactions standards could save $16.3 billion a year

The U.S. health care system saves an estimated $122 billion annually by automating administrative transactions but could save $16.3 billion more by transitioning to fully electronic transactions, according to the latest annual CAQH Index.

Hospitals and health systems lose 2,100 jobs in January

Hospitals and health systems lost 2,100 jobs in January, as U.S. jobs overall increased by 49,000, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

CDC: COVID-19 hospitalization rates slow after statewide mask mandates

Between March 22 and Oct. 17, 2020, weekly COVID-19-associated hospitalization rates reported by 10 COVID-19-Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network sites declined by 5.5 percentage points for adults under age 65 after states began mandating the use of facemasks, according to a report released by the CDC.

Congress agrees on budget resolution, paving way for reconciliation process for $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package

The House and Senate passed a concurrent budget resolution giving Congress the option to use fast-track procedures to pass the president’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package with a simple majority in the Senate.

FDA advises against using compounded remdesivir products

The Food and Drug Administration cautioned health care providers against using compounded remdesivir drug products due to the potential for patient exposure to substandard or adulterated products.

FDA sets Feb. 26 review of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine data

The Food and Drug Administration announced that its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will convene Feb. 26 to discuss the emergency use authorization application by Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Biotech, Inc. for its investigational single-dose COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
Member

Urge Your Representatives to Sign onto ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter to Xavier Becerra, Asking Him to Protect 340B

Please contact your representatives today and ask them to sign onto a bipartisan “Dear Colleague” letter to Xavier Becerra, the nominee for Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, asking him to take immediate action to ensure that manufacturers are prohibited from imposing unilateral changes to the 340B Drug Pricing Program that are in direct conflict with congressional intent and decades of written guidance. 

Community partnerships key to improving access to mental health care

Community partnerships could address mental health care lack-of-access issues, writes Sean Blair, chief growth officer of ncgCARE, a behavioral health care organization with provider agencies in North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and West Virginia. Learn how to form valuable partnerships and leverage their many benefits using a plan developed by WakeMed Behavioral Health Network as the foundation.

Sean Blair

Perspective: Continuing the Push to Restore Health to Hospitals

President Biden and congressional Democrats are moving forward with the president’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal.