by Jordana Choucair | Mar 17, 2022 | Mental Health
A recent study found that hospitals are seeing more emergency department (ED) visits for mental health (MH) issues after COVID-19 surges, particularly among young adults and racial minority groups. The study found that ED professionals may experience increases in...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 17, 2022 | Payers
CMS released states’ final disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments for fiscal years 2018 and 2019 and preliminary allotments for fiscal years 2020 and 2021. According to the notice, CMS provided $12.3 billion in DSH payments to states in 2018 and 12.5...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 17, 2022 | Payers
Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliates and other payers filed a lawsuit against Walgreens for knowingly overcharging payers and customers for prescription drugs. The lawsuit alleges that Walgreens submitted claims with artificially inflated drug prices for more than a...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 16, 2022 | D.C. News
White House officials warned Tuesday that cutbacks in the U.S. pandemic response could happen as early as next week if Congress doesn’t pass new emergency COVID-19 funding. According to the officials, without the funding the federal government will delay buying...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 16, 2022 | D.C. News
A Senate committee voted 20-2 to advance a bipartisan pandemic preparedness bill that seeks to apply COVID-19 lessons to future health threats. The bill includes measures to strengthen the medical supply chain, bolster disease surveillance, and require that the Senate...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 16, 2022 | Health IT
Google Health and EHR vendor Meditech plan to integrate Care Studio, an EHR search tool that Google first piloted with Ascension, into Meditech’s Expanse EHR. The goal of the partnership is to pull and organize information from different systems to give doctors...
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