A U.S Justice Department case against the University of Miami that took eight years to settle requires UM to pay about $22 million to the federal government, with half of it going to the taxpayer-funded Medicare program for the elderly and disabled.
As Covid-19 continues to rage and almost a year since the murder of George Floyd, it’s once again Mental Health Awareness month. With everything going on, the number of Americans experiencing anxiety and depression is up — 42% of U.S. adults reported symptoms, up from 11% in previous years, according to a December survey from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Biden administration plans to open applications for billions of dollars in grants for hospitals and other health care providers before the end of May after months of delay, according to three people familiar with the plans. Hospitals have pleaded with administration officials to release more funds, which Congress in December directed them to disburse. Currently, providers have only been reimbursed for a portion of their losses through June 2020. The next tranche of grant money will deplete most of the remaining cash in the $178 billion fund to help providers with expenses and losses related to the pandemic.
Tower Health on Monday announced a restructuring of a subsidiary that employs its physicians and has been posting outsized losses as the Berks County nonprofit undertook a dramatic — and expensive — expansion into the Philadelphia market.