by Associated Press | Feb 26, 2021 | Healthcare, Hospitals
Modern Healthcare Illustration / Getty Images The meetings begin each day not long after dawn. Dozens of aides report in, coffee in hand, joining by Zoom from agency headquarters, their homes or even adjacent offices. Overwhelm The sessions start with the latest...
by modernhealthcare | Feb 25, 2021 | Healthcare, Hospitals
Congress could adopt several measures to expand health coverage and lower state Medicaid spending on expensive drugs as part of the latest pandemic relief package in the works. The House Ways and Means Committee on Monday proposed a number of changes to make health...
by Kenneth E. Raske | Feb 2, 2021 | Healthcare, Hospitals
Outdated federal laws have created an impending shortage of trained doctors, but several graduate medical education provisions in the COVID-19 relief bill signed into law late last year are a significant step toward tackling the nation’s inadequate pipeline of...
by Associated Press | Feb 1, 2021 | Healthcare, Hospitals
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Health insurance giant Blue Shield of California will be the outside administrator tasked with ramping up coronavirus vaccinations, which to date has been slow, stilted and plagued by confusion, the state health agency said in a statement...
by Michael Brady | Jan 6, 2021 | Healthcare, Hospitals
Like many hospitals, Pennsylvania’s Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center at Windber saw its service volume collapse earlier this year after a pause in elective procedures. Global CEO Tom Kurtz said the decline would have wreaked havoc on its operating revenue in previous...
by Associated Press | Dec 30, 2020 | Doctors, Healthcare, Hospitals
Pfizer and BioNTech will supply the U.S. with an additional 100 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine under a second agreement. The drugmakers said Wednesday that they expect to deliver all the doses by July 31. Pfizer already has a contract to supply the government...
