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Medicare to cover NGS for patients with inherited ovarian, breast cancer
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a national decision to cover diagnostic laboratory tests using next generation sequencing for certain Medicare patients with inherited ovarian or breast cancer.
House subcommittees hold hearing on improving maternal, infant health
Two subcommittees of the House Education and Labor Committee held a joint hearing titled “Expecting More: Addressing America’s Maternal and Infant Health Crisis,” which focused on strategies to reduce the nation’s maternal mortality rate and eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in maternal and infant health.
Check Your Blind Spot as You Address Disruptive Changes
Transforming health care to become more consumer-centered, less expensive and more innovative in where and how care is delivered has proven to be more challenging than many hospital and health system leaders envisioned. What’s more, many CEOs expect the pace of change to keep accelerating even as the health care market remains as fluid as it is unpredictable, according to Deloitte’s 2019 Health Care CEO Perspectives Study.
Google Cloud Faces Headwinds in Trying to Win Over EHR Companies
Google Cloud has hit a significant roadblock as it tries to execute its plans to help health care organizations turn their data into breakthroughs via better care and more streamlined operations. Epic Systems, one of the largest electronic health record companies in the nation, has been calling customers to tell them it will not pursue further integration with Google Cloud, CNBC recently reported.
Virtual Primary Care Gets a Major Boost from Cigna
Widespread use of virtual care platforms to deliver primary care has been expected for some time now and a recent agreement between MDLIVE and Cigna could jump-start the transition.
How Hospitals Are Paving the Way to the Future
As a follow-up to our report last week on the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Maryjane Wurth, AHA executive vice president and chief operating officer, recently shared key takeaways from presentations by providers, technology firms, payers and others.
TrendWatch Case Study: Improving Competitive Bedside Nursing Through Flexible Work Structures
As part of a recently released workforce TrendWatch, AHA highlights Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network’s creation of flexible work schedules to improve the vacancy rate in the competitive bedside nursing market.
Supreme Court lifts pause on public charge rule as lawsuits continue
The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to lift a nationwide injunction imposed by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York preventing the Department of Homeland Security’s public charge final rule from taking effect while legal challenges to the rule proceed.
Hospital groups urge appeals court to affirm pause on public charge rule
The AHA and five other national hospital groups filed a friend-of-the court brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to affirm a district court decision blocking the Department of Homeland Security’s public charge rule from taking effect while legal challenges to the rule proceed.