Lee, who was a leading force in the implementation of the Medicare program, died earlier this week.

The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission will likely recommend Congress extend Medicaid's postpartum coverage, but its members split on whether to make the expansion mandatory or optional for states because COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on state budgets.

The agency has recently issued guidance on what expenses and lost revenues healthcare providers can legally count toward the COVID-19 relief grants.

Ascension Rx—the newly launched brand for the system's national pharmacy—offers specialty medication packaging and delivery, infusion therapy and medication management, including financial aid coordination.

As COVID-19 cases rise across the country, testing times at nursing homes remain slow, study finds.

The Yakima hospital's board cited the desire to keep healthcare independent in its decision to split with Virginia Mason Health System.

The second part of CMS' 2022 Medicare Advantage advance notice deals with planned changes to capitation rates and other risk adjustment methodologies. The agency released it early to help plans deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

Nursing homes, small physician offices and rural clinics are being left behind in the rush for N95 masks and other protective gear, exposing some of the country’s most vulnerable populations and their caregivers to COVID-19 while larger, wealthier health care facilities build equipment stockpiles.

Universal Health Services' net income was $241.3 million in the quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with $97.2 million in the prior-year period.

HHS' ONC developed a five-year strategic plan with an eye toward promoting an app economy for health data, in line with the agency's information-blocking rule.

A lab experiment aimed at fixing defective DNA in human embryos shows what can go wrong with this type of gene editing. In more than half of the cases, the editing caused unintended changes, such as loss of an entire chromosome.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals said Friday that independent monitors had recommended placing on hold enrollment of the most severely ill patients—those who need intense oxygen treatment or breathing machines—because of a potential safety problem and unfavorable balance of risks and benefits.

HCA Healthcare employees are asking company investors to meet with workers and demand answers from HCA over PPE and workplace safety concerns.

A multi-state coronavirus surge in the countdown to Election Day has exposed a clear split between President Donald Trump’s bullish embrace of a return to normalcy and urgent public warnings from the government’s top health officials.

The companies expect to see estimated 2020 combined revenue of $1.3 billion and cover 70 million members, according to a presentation shared with investors in August.

An enhanced alliance between employers and healthcare systems could help to accelerate more solutions for our long-standing challenges with care coordination and value-based care.

Facing budget crunches, states will need more time to assess their Medicaid rolls, experts said during a MACPAC hearing.

Anti-mask protesters stood in front of the home of Utah epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn on Thursday evening after her personal information was leaked online.

As a powerful new wave of infections sweeps the U.S. just ahead of Election Day, the nation's handling of the nearly 8-month-old crisis has been marked by what health experts see as grave missteps, wasted time and squandered opportunities by leaders at all levels of government.

Allscripts’ 9.5% revenue dip is partially attributable to lower revenue from EPSi, a business unit focused on financial decision support, that Allscripts sold to Strata Decision Technology for $365 million earlier this month.

Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. healthcare system designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient care just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking.

HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has issued an interim final rule to delay compliance deadlines until at least 2021.

Providers will be able to use telehealth if it's outlined in a patient's care plan and tied to a specific goal to improve treatment. CMS bumped pay for home health by 1.9%, or about $390 million.

Medtronic allegedly paid a South Dakota neurosurgeon kickbacks to use its products and hosted more than 100 events at a restaurant owned by the physician.

Community health centers warned that they will lose out on 340B discounts if the program goes into effect.

Teladoc Health posted $288.8 million in revenue for 2020's third quarter as it prepares for a pending $18.5 billion merger with Livongo.

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago is learning new approaches to caring for patients who face long, difficult recoveries from the coronavirus.

Value-based care is widely considered the solution to rising healthcare costs—moving away from fee-for-service by aligning financial incentives to produce higher quality and better results. But important policy adjustments are necessary to finally make this transition.

Anthem, a Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan that operates in 14 states, recorded the $594 million charge in the third quarter of 2020, though the settlement still must be approved by a federal court.

The combined health system would include 70 hospitals and approximately 89,000 employees, making it the seventh-largest not-for-profit health system by revenue.