by Jordana Choucair | Aug 25, 2022 | Providers
Amazon announced that it will shutdown its Amazon Care service for employers after December 31. Amazon piloted the virtual urgent care and primary care offering with its employees and their families in the Seattle region in 2019 and expanded nationwide thereafter....
by Jordana Choucair | Aug 24, 2022 | Providers
A new simulation study found that primary care clinicians need almost 27 hours per day to provide care to patients. Researchers at the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, and Imperial College London computed time per patient based on data from the...
by Jordana Choucair | Aug 18, 2022 | Providers
Fitch Ratings released its midyear report for nonprofit hospital, adjusting its outlook from “neutral” to “deteriorating.” Fitch said that although the industry anticipated the macro headwinds of labor pressures and high inflation going into 2022, they have been more...
by Jordana Choucair | Aug 15, 2022 | Providers
Thousands of mental health therapists are set to strike in California today, demanding that Kaiser Permanente provide “desperately needed” services to its patients. The unionized psychologists, therapists, chemical dependency counselors, and social workers...
by Jordana Choucair | Aug 15, 2022 | Providers
An analysis in JAMA Surgery found that less than a third of the 63 National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers in the U.S. are fully complying with federal price transparency rules. The rules stipulated that, effective January 1, 2021, hospitals must disclose...
by Jordana Choucair | Aug 9, 2022 | Providers
HHS announced it will invest nearly $150 million in American Rescue Plan to address staffing shortages in rural areas and advance health equity. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will distribute $60 million to rural communities across 35 states...
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