Four prominent congressional leaders asked HHS Secretary Alex Azar to quickly send more provider relief grant money to Medicaid-dependent providers.

COVID-19 could be an opportunity for the federal government to take a step back and decide whether quality programs should be significantly changed or permanently sunset, healthcare insiders said.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday unveiled and endorsed recommendations on improving nursing homes' responses to outbreaks after COVID-19 ravaged long-term care facilities in the state.

R1 RCM plans to buy Cerner RevWorks for $30 million in a deal expected to close in the third quarter.

Ryan Smith will join Intermountain Healthcare as vice president and chief information officer. He replaces Marc Probst, who is retiring.

A recent RAND Corp. study finds there are both cultural and financial burdens to overcome in the integration of behavioral health.

The federal government is inquiring how healthcare groups have used data to quantify the impact of crises like COVID-19 on access, timeliness and quality as well as how they've established public-private partnerships.

If we forget about protecting the emotional well-being of our children, the trauma of this crisis will haunt a generation of kids burdened by mental and physical problems for years to come.

The extra data requirements apply to hospitals and laboratories and are intended to help track the virus' impact on various racial, age and regional groups.

Telemedicine is the one IT segment where private equity funds have indicated increased interest in investing post-coronavirus, according to a new survey.

UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital reported delivering 142 babies in May, smashing the hospital's old record of 121 babies set in September 2017.

A second round of random testing in Spain for antibodies to the new coronavirus indicates that a third of those infected do not develop symptoms, Spanish health authorities said.

Greg Feirn, CEO of the second-largest health system in New Orleans, says that the COVID-19 pandemic proved competitors can work together. Now the task is assuring patients it’s safe to come back.

Emergency department visits in the U.S. for chest pain and heart attacks fell early this spring, according to a study that supports fears that the coronavirus outbreak scared away people from going to the hospital.

The Senate passed legislation that would give healthcare providers more flexibility in how they use Paycheck Protection Program loans.

Live updates from Modern Healthcare on the coronavirus outbreak and how COVID-19 is affecting the healthcare industry.

The financial struggles of New York–Presbyterian, one of the region's most financially stable systems, are a sign of the strain COVID-19 has placed on area hospitals. The losses will be partially offset by federal aid that was awarded after the first quarter concluded.

Although international law obliges countries to report information to WHO that could have an impact on public health, the U.N. agency has no enforcement powers and cannot independently investigate epidemics within countries. Instead, it must rely on the cooperation of member states.

Lifespan and Care New England have in the past entered merger talks, most recently last year, but they always failed.

After 14 days in the study, 12% on the drug developed COVID-19 symptoms versus 14% in the placebo group, but the difference is so small it could have occurred by chance.

Following the tectonic shift in telehealth during the past few months, provider groups want CMS to continue that trend by allowing more providers to take part in virtual care and boosting reimbursements.

A series of new surveys by researchers at NYU have found that the city's primary care practices have been particularly hard hit by the pandemic. Many of them worry they may not come out on the other side.

Outsourcing functions like IT and revenue cycle management has become increasingly popular for health systems. But job losses and rebadging can take a toll on employees and damage internal culture.

After the first COVID-19 positive patient showed up at a New York-Presbyterian hospital, Dr. Laura Forese, the system’s chief operating officer, held daily video conferences with staff. Those efforts would prove fruitful.

Healthcare providers have been much slower than insurers and drugmakers when it comes to shifting work overseas. But that may be changing, as they grapple with the ever-growing need to cut costs.

The New England Journal of Medicine issued an "expression of concern" on a study it published May 1 that suggested widely used blood pressure medicines were not raising the risk of death for people with COVID-19.

About 20% of all office, outpatient and home health expenses across Medicare, Medicaid and commercially insured populations could be converted to virtual care in the wake of COVID-19, a new report estimates.

A group of physicians acquired a controlling stake in Dallas-based health system Steward Health Care from a private equity firm.

Although COVID-19 is best known for damaging the lungs, it also increases the risk of life-threatening brain injuries — from mental confusion to hallucinations, seizures, coma, stroke and paralysis.

As New York enters its fourth month battling the virus, senior facilities are looking back on how the pandemic was able to take such a toll—and working to make sure something like this never happens again.

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CMS is threatening to strip states of their nursing home inspection funding as many aren't ensuring the facilities meet federal infection control standards. That could include cutting some funding.

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With each new release of COVID-19 incidence and mortality data by race and ethnicity, the disparities are evident—and more pronounced and disturbing.