HHS conceded to complaints and agreed to reopen applications for COVID-19 relief grants for Medicare providers and extend a key deadline for Medicaid providers.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. raised its profit more than 200% in the second quarter, which covers the most severe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Serving some of the most vulnerable populations in Los Angeles County, L.A. Care Health Plan has had to confront many of the downstream effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Chief among those has been an increase in food insecurity, according to CEO John Baackes.

The Chicago-area network's upbeat outlook shows how the virus further shifts the balance of power in local healthcare toward deep-pocketed chains with the wherewithal to keep expanding while others struggle to survive.

University Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic both launched programs to help offer advice to businesses looking to keep their employees and customers healthy during the pandemic. Though the health systems may have offered advice here and there, consulting at this scale is new for them.

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New York has not disclosed how many nursing home residents died at hospitals, or how many residents have been infected with COVID-19.

R1 RCM and Cerner will continue to work together as part of the agreement, integrating their digital patient experience tools and possibly collaborating on analytics, transaction processing and other services.

While Beaumont Health's losses were higher than in previous years because of the COVID-19 pandemic, cash and investment reserves are stronger this year than last year, the system said.

Dr. Michael Ligotti was arrested and charged for allegedly bilking payers out of $121 million via fraudulent tests and treatments for substance abuse patients.

Lifespan's visitor restriction changes are meant to allow patients to see their loved ones. But across the state border, Baystate is mandating new check-in procedures.

A Chicago woman who last month became the nation's first COVID-19 patient to undergo a double lung transplant said Thursday that she woke up days later, unaware about the surgery and unable to "recognize my body."

"Not everybody's going to like the answer," Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, recently told an advisory group. "There will be many people who feel that they should have been at the top of the list."

The final pay rule also applies a 5% cap on wage index decreases, tweaks case-mix classification code mappings and adjusts the SNF value-based purchasing program.

Could hyperbaric oxygen therapy, best known for treating divers with the bends, help stave off the need for ventilators and perhaps reduce deaths?

A federal appeals court revived an HHS policy that would cut Medicare outpatient drug payments by 28.5% at 340B hospitals.

NYC Health + Hospitals plans to build Centers of Excellence in areas that have been hardest hit by COVID-19.

Appearing before a House panel investigating the nation's response to the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci expressed "cautious" optimism that a vaccine would be available, particularly by next year.

Molina Healthcare estimated that the COVID-19 pandemic increased its profit $65 million to $100 million in the second quarter of 2020 as members stopped using healthcare services.

Only 16% of providers are eliminating bonus payouts entirely this year as COVID-19 roils the healthcare industry and the broader economy. 

Allscripts said it will sell a financial decision support business for $365 million.

Health systems with health plans have noticed the steady claims revenue has helped offset significant losses on the patient-care side.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center shifted roughly half of its new doctor orientation to be done remotely, in large part through a new at-home virtual reality program.

New York-based Oscar Health will offer individual and family plan members in certain states a new option to receive all primary-care services virtually, beginning in 2021.