The career civil servant will lead the massive federal agency until President Joe Biden announces his permanent pick for CMS' helm.

Going forward, UnitedHealthcare expects to add 1.5 million members in 2021, with enrollment in government plans continuing to drive growth.

Community Health Systems upped the size of its offering by $1 billion from $750 million the same day it was launched due to investor demand.

A new CDC director is arriving to a mammoth task: reasserting the agency while the pandemic is in its deadliest phase yet and the nation's largest-ever vaccination campaign is wracked by confusion and delays.

A number of states are reporting they are running out of vaccine, and tens of thousands of people who managed to get appointments for a first dose are seeing them canceled.

The long-standing Medicare program now has 477 ACOs participating, a decline from 2020 when 517 participated, according to new CMS data.

Mark Erceg will join Cerner Corp. as the company's new chief financial officer Feb. 22. He's the third leadership appointment Cerner has announced since the start of 2021.

HCA has teamed up with A Plus International to supply surgical and procedure masks out of Asheville, N.C. in early 2021.

President Joe Biden will initiate a national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks — including a requirement that Americans mask up for travel.

The majority of 21 shipments of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday were spoiled en route to Michigan, likely delaying the state's vaccination efforts this week, the Department of Health and Human Services said,

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

Prior to creating its own program, MetroHealth has trained the surgical workforce for more than 60 years through partnerships. MetroHealth began designing the new program last summer to replace a long-standing surgical residency partnership with University Hospitals that is coming to an end.

Residents and staff who got the antibody drug had up to a 57% lower risk of getting COVID-19 compared to others at the same facility who got a placebo, the drugmaker said. Among nursing home residents only, the risk was reduced by up to 80%.

New vaccine studies must include communities of color that have been hard-hit by the pandemic. To help, researchers in more than a dozen spots around the country are rolling out mobile health clinics to better reach minority participants and people in rural areas who might not otherwise volunteer.

The American Cancer Society estimates that 276,000 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in the United States last year. The new work suggests that at least 13,800 of them occur in women with inherited gene mutations that raise their risk of developing the disease.

A pharmacy responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine to Ohio nursing homes failed to document storage temperatures for leftover shots, resulting in 890 doses being wasted.

Carilion Clinic, CoxHealth and Geisinger Health are among the systems outsourcing such technology services as support, cybersecurity and data management.

Public health experts are not uniformly backing the Biden administration’s plans to speed up mass vaccination efforts after missteps that have slowed the rollout.  

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai talks with Modern Healthcare about telehealth barriers, the agency's new Connected Care Pilot Program and why he hopes to continue working on telehealth issues after stepping down from his agency post.

Prosecutors said doctors agreed to improperly waive co-pays for certain Medicare patients with chronic conditions who enrolled in care management services provided by Henry's company, MyPractice24.

Mesa Biotech will become part of Thermo Fisher's Life Sciences Solutions business segment.

CMS will provide coverage for FDA-authorized, blood-based screening tests for Medicare beneficiaries when certain requirements are met, including that the patient is between 50 and 85 years old, asymptomatic and at average risk of developing colorectal cancer.

The Surgeon General report said community health investments will improve businesses' bottom lines and the health of the economy.

HHS has delayed a Provider Relief Fund grant recognition deadine originally set for Feb. 15. The agency has not yet announced a new deadline.

After more than a decade of gradual losses, nursing home employment began a free fall in April as the novel coronavirus spread across the country. And it hasn't recovered.

Louisiana's chief public health officer warned hospitals, pharmacies and clinics that they should not be steering their coronavirus vaccine doses solely to their own patients.

Nearly 30 announced hospital deals in the fourth quarter signaled that hospital executives are more comfortable with the virtual due diligence process and that finances have stabilized, M&A experts said.

Chip Kahn, president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals, talked with Modern Healthcare Managing Editor Matthew Weinstock about what the industry can expect during the early days of the Biden administration.

The agency also signed off on its controversial proposal to fully base Medicare Advantage payments on encounter data.

This year's popular J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference was held virtually, which means companies didn't get their usual face time with investors. Instead, they tried to stand out virtually.

Andrea Palm will work to fulfill Biden's pledge to expand access to COVID-19 vaccines and speed up the rate of vaccinations.