by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2021 | Providers
Kaufman Hall’s latest National Hospital Flash Report shows that U.S. hospitals and health systems margins declined for the second straight month in October. According to the report, median change in operating margin was down 12.1 percent from September to October, and...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2021 | Providers
A federal court in Louisiana blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for health care workers across the country, except in the 10 states where the rule has already been paused. The Louisiana court considered limiting the injunction to the 14...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2021 | Payers
A new poll from Willis Towers Watson shows that nearly 85 percent of employers plan to offer COVID-19 testing or test employees regularly as they return to the workplace, 80 percent of which say they’ll do so weekly. More than half (57 percent) of employers...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2021 | Life Sciences
An advisory panel to the FDA narrowly endorsed Merck & Co. and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP’s COVID-19 antiviral pill for patients at high risk of severe illness. The treatment could be available to patients within weeks if the agency authorizes it. In the...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2021 | D.C. News
The White House is preparing to tighten COVID-19 testing rules for all travelers to the U.S. in an effort to curb the spread of the new omicron variant. Officials plan to require that all travelers be tested one day before their flights, regardless of their...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2021 | D.C. News
President Biden today plans to release an updated national strategy to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The goal of the strategy is to reduce new HIV infections by 90 percent by 2030 by shoring up funding for research, increasing access to treatment, and addressing...
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