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Jul 10 | Susan Morse

HHS is releasing over $4 billion in relief payments to safety net, rural hospitals

Approximately $115 billion of the $175 billion approved by Congress has been allocated.

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Jul 10 | Jeff Lagasse

Value-based payment penalties disproportionately impact safety net hospitals

Neither safety net nor non-safety net hospitals showed improvements in the four infections analyzed, including…

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Jul 10 |

HHS releases May and June COVID-19 testing plans

The plans for July-December were also due to the CDC today, which will incorporate feedback on its previous testing plan.

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Jul 09 | Susan Morse

Walgreens to open more than 500 VillageMD primary care offices within stores

The full-service doctor's offices will be in 30 U.S. markets, with the intent to expand.

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Jul 08 | Susan Morse

Hospitals continue to bear the burden of the COVID-19 surge

The AHA is asking Congress for financial support with other relief in regulatory measures, the biggest being the use of telehealth.

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Jul 08 | Jeff Lagasse

Hospitals have received most of the loans from the Paycheck Protection Program

Healthcare and social assistance has so far received $67.4 billion of the $521 billion distributed by the…

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Jul 07 |

HHS sets up free COVID-19 testing in select cities in response to COVID-19 outbreaks

The department is partnering with eTrueNorth and the local communities to perform up to 5,000 tests per…

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Jul 07 | Susan Morse

AHA, others urge HHS to delay price transparency rule due to COVID-19

The groups said the rule would pose a burden to hospitals and health systems responding to the COVID-19 public health…

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Jul 02 |

MENTAL Health Challenge seeks digital platform to combat loneliness

The challenge aims to combat the loneliness that older adults, people with disabilities and veterans experience,…

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Jul 02 |

Ten indicted in $1.4B multi-state hospital testing fraud scheme

The defendants allegedly used their management companies to take over rural hospitals in financial trouble and then used them…

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