Stony Brook Medicine is the first on Long Island — and one of a select number of healthcare systems nationwide — to implement an artificial intelligence technology, HeartFlow Plaque Analysis™, to enable its physicians to more accurately understand the blockages present in the coronary arteries of patients with suspected heart disease.
The Medicaid portion of the House GOP's massive domestic policy bill would result in 10.3 million people losing Medicaid coverage by 2034 and 7.6 million people going uninsured, according to a partial Congressional Budget Office estimate. Republicans released the estimates just ahead of the start of Tuesday's markup of the Energy and Commerce portion of the party-line legislation, which is key to enacting President Trump's agenda. The uninsured numbers include 1.4 million people without verified citizenship who would be removed from the program and 4.8 million people who would lose coverage because of work requirements, the committee said.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify before Congress today for the first time since taking the role of U.S. health secretary, and will face questions over the firing of thousands of health agency employees and a fast-growing measles outbreak.
The project plans to use an approach that would involve injecting people with a whole flu virus that has been killed with a chemical to render it harmless but is still capable of stimulating the immune system. Most vaccine experts consider the whole killed virus approach to be antiquated.
The closing of Crozer Health has highlighted a disturbing statewide trend of healthcare system acquisitions. At least 26 hospitals owned by nonprofits and for-profits have closed in Pennsylvania in the past five years, and 46 have changed owners.
CLEVELAND, Texas – A hospital in Cleveland has closed its doors. Texas Emergency Hospital put a sign on its door Monday. There is not a lot of information about the closure, but former employees say they are distraught about the closure. The hospital told employees the closure was due to rising operational costs and changes in reimbursement from payers and the unexpected decrease in the hospitals Medicaid interim rate.