Hospitals in the Greater Boston area are seeing an unusually early onslaught of respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV. The slew of cases is filling up their emergency rooms, clogging up pediatric transfers and even causing some children to be sent across state lines for care.
BEDFORD, Ohio (WJW) — The future of University Hospitals Bedford Medical Center remains on hold. A judge ordered a stay in the city's lawsuit against UH to remain in place, while urging both sides to work out a solution.
With Atlanta Medical Center — one of Georgia's largest hospitals — set to close on Nov. 1, DeKalb County commissioners allocated an additional $12 million in funding to Emory Hillandale Hospital.
Terry Wilcox's grandmother lived in an isolated house at the top of a hill overlooking the magical mountains and valleys of the Ozarks until, as she tells it, "the day we literally had to drag her off of it." Wilcox, like many others in her generation, has been in the tricky position of having to take care of aging parents and in-laws in addition to her young twins. Home health care services have helped keep Wilcox's family healthy and safe — and reduce her stress — but they aren't equally accessible to everybody. And that uneven ground is now being further threatened by Medicare's proposal for deep cuts and clawbacks to payments made during the pandemic for home health care.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Tuesday that UnitedHealth Group-owned OptumRX, one of the largest pharmacy benefit managers in the nation, will repay the state $15 million under a settlement. "Another shoe has dropped,” Yost said in a statement. “This is another win for Ohio – time for OptumRx to pay up.”
UnitedHealth Group Inc. sold $9 billion of bonds, the biggest US bond offering in months, signaling that there is still appetite for jumbo issuances from companies with top-tier ratings. The health-care giant issued the debt in seven parts, according to people familiar with the matter.
