by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
The Lown Institute released its ranking of the most socially responsible hospitals, with just 54 out of 3,600 receiving “A” grades for their work across the three main categories of equity, value, and outcomes. The Lown Institute is a health care think tank that...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Hospitals told a major Senate panel that a $385 million bucket of annual emergency preparedness funding up for reauthorization should “be at least doubled” if the country’s health care system is to be ready for another public health threat. In a letter to the Senate...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 13, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
HCA Healthcare on Monday reported a data security incident where personal information, including patient names and contact details, was stolen and posted online. The data lists could contain 27 million rows of data with information from about 11 million patients who...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 13, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
The federal government will pay eligible hospitals in the 340B program $9 billion to offset payment cuts the Supreme Court ruled unlawful last year. In 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cut prescription drug payments for 340B-covered entity...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Stanford Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) unveiled plans Friday to collaborate on a project that will bring a new National Cancer Institute-designated joint cancer care and research center to the VA Palo Alto campus in California. The two...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Health care costs are expected to rise 7 percent next year as providers deal with higher expenses and seek rate increases during contract negotiations with insurers. The projection by PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PWC) Health Research Institute tops the...
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