HHS is requiring providers to send their money back Wednesday if they aren't ready to accept grant terms and conditions, but still want to be eligible for their full grant allocation.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

A Missouri judge has dismissed two lawsuits against a ballot proposal to expand Medicaid health care eligibility to thousands more low-income adults.

Toledo-area elected officials said that they are seeking Gov. Mike DeWine's help in protecting the future of the University of Toledo Medical Center, amid accusations that a rival health system is unfairly poaching its staff.

Revenue for NextGen, a provider of electronic health record and revenue cycle management software for ambulatory practices, was up 1.2% year-over-year for the company's fiscal 2020 fourth quarter. 

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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.

HHS' HRSA on Tuesday awarded $20.3 million to several addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry groups to fund new fellowship programs and invest in the workforce.

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.

As cities across the U.S. shut down access into and out of downtown areas in response to protests over the death of George Floyd, access to hospitals is being limited for medical staff and patients.

Experts convened by HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology clashed over the role a national patient identifier could play in improving patient-matching among healthcare organizations.

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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.

The median overall profit margin among not-for-profit critical-access hospitals in Medicaid expansion states increased from 1.8% to 3.7%, compared with a decrease from 3.5% to 2.8% among their peers in non-expansion states, a new study found.

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.

Louisville, Ky.-based Kindred Healthcare plans to buy two behavioral health hospitals in the Dallas-Fort Worth area from Wellbridge.

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.

In this inaugural episode of Modern Healthcare's new podcast, Dr. Rosemary Morgan of John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about the big and small ways the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women.

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

Insurance status, behavioral health issues and even perceived or real discrimination are challenges that complicate LGBTQ patients seeking healthcare. Practices that create a welcoming environment for the LGBTQ community may improve access to care.

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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.