Several insurers have said they received and chose to return unsolicited payments from the $30 billion that the HHS sent out based on Medicare fee-for-service reimbursement.

But many employers with self-funded health plans seem to believe they're exempt from rules set by Congress for free COVID-19 tests.

Two organizations reported incidents in April that affected more than 100,000 patients each, collectively accounting for roughly half of the 446,000 people hit in breaches reported last month.

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

UnitedHealth Group's Optum business has acquired naviHealth, a company that manages post-acute healthcare services.

Each skilled-nursing facility will receive $50,000, plus $2,500 per bed. The funds are meant to offset increased expenses and lost revenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Norton Healthcare said the Louisville facility, expected to open by the end of the year, will offer health screenings, vaccinations and lab work. Walk-up visitors will also be accepted.

The ultimate tools for fighting COVID-19 will be treatments and a vaccine.

Gov. Mike DeWine said preliminary recommendations include a need for culturally appropriate coronavirus notifications, increased testing capacity, better data to prioritize resource allocation and culturally sensitive statewide communications to communities of color.

"AI is being used for things that are questionable right now," said Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute and author of several books on health IT.

Huntington's only two acute-care hospitals merged under a certificate of public advantage in 2018. Now, the health system plans to purchase a more than 60-physician multi-specialty practice in Huntington.

Hospitals' median operating margin fell to negative 29% in April, dropping 282% relative to last year, according to Kaufman Hall data.

Malaria drugs used as treatments for the coronavirus did not help and were tied to a greater risk of death and heart rhythm problems in a new study of nearly 100,000 patients around the world.

Tennessee-based Rinova The Wellness Group has agreed to pay more than $100,000 to settle claims that it defrauded Medicare.

About two dozen exhibitors are asking the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society for refunds after the trade group canceled its annual conference. HIMSS previously offered partial credit toward the fees for 2021 and 2022 conferences.

Specialties such as pediatrics, OB-GYN and behavioral health have been left out of billions of dollars in grants nearly two months after Congress created a $100 billion fund.

Muge Ma, 36, also claimed he was paying millions of dollars to hundreds of workers when he was really his only employee, working out of his posh $1.5 million Manhattan condominium, federal authorities said as they announced his arrest.

The coronavirus has had no regard for healthcare quality or ratings as it has swept through nursing homes around the world, killing efficiently even in highly rated care centers.

Contact tracing is a hybrid job. The person is an interrogator, therapist and nurse as they try to coax nervous people to be honest. The goal: To create a road map of everywhere infected people have been and who they've been around.

When health data is shared, front-line providers are kept in the loop in real time on patient movement, health changes and diagnoses, and they can respond smartly.