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Strategy
CMS Report: 98% of Eligible Clinicians Avoided MIPS Penalty in 2018The number of clinicians achieving qualifying APM participant status also nearly doubled from 2017 to 2018.
Strategy
Ex-West Virginia Health Chief Says Cuts Hurt Virus ResponseIn her first comments about what happened, Dr. Cathy Slemp declined in a series of interviews to directly discuss the...
Finance
Court Denies Sutter Health's Motion for 3-Month Delay on Final Approval of $575M Antitrust SettlementThe preliminary hearing is set for August 12-13, according to SCSFC Judge Anne-Christine Massullo.
Clinical Care
OCR Resolves Complaint with Tennessee Following Revision to Crisis Standards of CareIn light of the updated protocol presented by Tennessee, OCR announced that it closed the complaint against the state without...
Nursing
Workers Filed More Than 4,100 Complaints About Protective Gear. Some Still Died.Since March, more than 4,100 COVID-related complaints regarding health care facilities have poured into the nation's network of federal and...
Covid-19
State Coronavirus Data Doesn't Support Trump's Misleading Testing ClaimsThe Trump administration has doubled down on its claims that coronavirus case counts are up because the U.S. has increased...
Covid-19
The Indian Health Service Wants to Return 1 Million KN95 Masks It Bought From a Former White House OfficialThe former official, Zach Fuentes, is refusing to take back the masks even though IHS said they did not meet...
Clinical Care
A Hospital Was Accused of Racially Profiling Native American Women. Staff Said Administrators Impeded an Investigation.Federal regulators are investigating a New Mexico hospital accused of racial profiling. This comes as hospital staff said administrators appeared...
Covid-19
Trump's Take On COVID Testing Misses Public Health RealitiesEssentially, the president is arguing that the United States is finding more cases of COVID-19 because we are testing more...
Clinical Care
Dealing With Disruptive Physicians During MeetingsIt may be necessary to limit the time any one physician speaks to one or two minutes at a time.
Clinical Care
A Hospital's Secret Coronavirus Policy Separated Native American Mothers From Their NewbornsPregnant Native American women were singled out for COVID-19 testing based on their race and ZIP code, clinicians say. While...
Innovation
Leading Investor 'Calls Up' Nashville Healthcare Industry to End RacismMarcus Whitney hopes his thought leadership will start an overdue dialogue about the equity of opportunity in the healthcare sector.