by Adam Bonislawski, 360Dx | Aug 7, 2020 | Healthcare
With COVID-19 cases spiking around the country, laboratories have struggled to keep up with increasing demand for molecular SARS-CoV-2 testing. Labs Executives at leading national labs acknowledged during recent earnings calls that test capacity challenges are likely...
by Associated Press | Aug 6, 2020 | Healthcare, Hospitals
Cameron Settles was swabbed for COVID-19 in mid-June at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando and it took him eight days to get the results. Virus “They originally told him that it would be five days,” said Jenna Settles, his wife. “Then...
by Rachel Cohrs | Aug 5, 2020 | Healthcare
The visible text of the order details that presumably the HHS secretary would be directed to “implement his rulemaking plan to test a payment model pursuant to which Medicare would pay, for certain high-cost prescription drugs and biological products covered by...
by Shelby Livingston | Aug 4, 2020 | Healthcare
Health insurer Anthem nearly doubled its profit to $2.3 billion in the second quarter of 2020 as it reaped the benefits of the widespread shutdown of elective procedures and deferrals of routine care during the height the COVID-19 pandemic. Indianapolis-based...
by Rachel Cohrs | Aug 3, 2020 | Healthcare
Senate Republicans on Monday proposed $25 billion in new grant funds for healthcare providers, a liability shield for healthcare facilities and workers, and relaxed terms for Medicare loans in their opening bid in the latest round of COVID-19 relief negotiations. The...
by Shelby Livingston | Jul 31, 2020 | Healthcare, Hospitals
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has issued judgments of $3.7 billion for health insurers involved in two class actions over the federal government’s failure to pay funds owed under a now-expired Affordable Care Act program. Feds The judgments issued late...
by modern healthcare | Jul 30, 2020 | Healthcare
BioIntelliSense, founded in summer 2018, developed the BioSticker before working with UCHealth. Hospitals But the company tapped UCHealth to act as a “beta test site” for the device, helping to refine the service and provide feedback into how to incorporate it into...
by Court Houseworth, Managing Director, Cain Brothers, Kyle Stern, Managing Partner, HealthScape Advisors, David W. Johnson, CEO, 4SightHealth | Jul 29, 2020 | Healthcare
In the early 1900s, health epidemics ranging from cholera to typhoid plagued America’s increasingly crowded and polluted cities. Public health services emerged during this time to manage the onslaught of these virulent infections. Early countermeasures focused on...
by modern healthcare | Jul 28, 2020 | Healthcare, Hospitals
The Trump administration on Wednesday announced $5 billion in new grant funds for nursing homes to fight COVID-19 and said that it will require weekly staff testing for nursing homes in states with outbreaks. CMS The new funding is from the $175 billion Provider...
by Associated Press | Jul 27, 2020 | Healthcare
The Trump administration will pay Pfizer nearly $2 billion for a December delivery of 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine the pharmaceutical company is developing, HHS Secretary Alex Azar announced Wednesday. signs The U.S. could buy another 500 million doses...
