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

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

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.