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Erica Teichert

Managing Editor - Digital

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Erica Teichert creates and directs Modern Healthcare’s digital strategy, with an emphasis on using data and analytics to best serve the brand's audience. She previously served as the publication’s New York bureau chief and legal reporter. Before joining Modern Healthcare in 2016, she worked at Law360 as legal newswire’s first D.C. bureau chief after three years as a court reporter covering the U.S. Supreme Court, D.C. Circuit and other federal courts and agencies. Prior to that, she worked as an associate editor for FierceMarkets. She has a bachelor's degree in communications with a print journalism emphasis from Brigham Young University.

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Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at age 87

Ginsburg, the longest-serving liberal justice on the court, was a key figure in several healthcare-related Supreme Court decisions. Majority Leader McConnell pledges to vote on a Trump nomination.
Feds move to block Geisinger hospital acquisition

Geisinger and Evangelical Community Hospital have called their deal an "agreement"rather than an acquisition, but the Justice Department said it will lessen competition and raise prices in central Pennsylvania.
CMS details how hospitals can reopen as COVID-19 surge passes

The CMS laid out how hospitals can protect staff and patients as they reopen their doors to non-emergent care as their COVID-19 caseloads drop.
Seven states score Medicaid waivers for coronavirus

The CMS approved seven more Section 1135 waivers to give states additional flexibility to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supreme Court lifts last injunction on public charge rule

The Supreme Court late Friday removed one of the final barriers to nationwide enforcement of a controversial federal rule penalizing legal immigrants for using Medicaid and other public benefit programs.
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Week Ahead: AMA delegates take on drug prices, vaping and training physicians in finance

The American Medical Association is taking over San Diego for this year’s interim meeting and planning to address a variety of subjects.
Kaiser CEO Bernard Tyson dies unexpectedly at 60

Tyson, who led Kaiser since 2013, was a leader of healthcare reform and an advocate for equitable and affordable care.
Appeals court revives lab challenge of multibillion-dollar Medicare cut

Clinical labs will get another chance to challenge a multibillion-dollar reduction in their Medicare reimbursement.
Judge axes price disclosure rule for drug ads

A federal judge prohibited HHS from requiring drugmakers to publish list prices, a blow to the Trump administration's strategy to curb pharmaceutical costs
Week Ahead: Congress ramps up on surprise billing, competition and patents

Lawmakers are getting busy this week with several hearings eyeing the competitive affects of vertical integration, different paths toward universal coverage, and how to prevent surprise medical bills.
Week Ahead: State legislatures eye changes to charity care, tax-exempt status

Lawmakers in California and Florida will debate bills that would affect how hospitals calculate their community benefit and charity care.
Republicans agree Obamacare suit should head to appeal

The Republican state attorneys general challenging the Affordable Care Act urged a federal judge in Texas to let Democrats immediately appeal his ruling striking down the law.
Judge strikes down ACA as unconstitutional

A federal judge in Texas on Friday struck down the Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional, ruling that the law's individual mandate could not be severed from the rest of President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law. The White House says the ACA will stand during the appeals process.
Centralizing sterilization: Inside Northwell Health's new facility

Northwell Health is poised to open what it's calling the world's largest medical sterilization center. The $80 million facility will clean 22 million instruments per year.
CMS hands states more power for waiver process

In a dramatic overhaul of the current 1332 waiver process, the CMS said state legislatures will no longer have to approve waiver plans. Instead, governors will be able to take action on their own. The agency also changed how it will evaluate waivers.