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Clinical Care
COVID and Medicare Payments Spark Remote Patient Monitoring Boom
Total Medicare payments for the four most common billing codes for remote monitoring rose from $5.5 million in 2019 to...
Clinical Care
From CMO To Data Analytics? Why Alaska's CMO Is Leaving
Anne Zink, credited for life-saving work during the pandemic, is leaving her CMO role in seach of work in healthcare...
Clinical Care
UPMC's CMO Lays Out Strategy for Healthcare Transformation in 2024
Healthcare has reached one of the most challenging inflection points in more than 100 years, Donald Yealy says. And that...
Payer
Halfway Through 'Unwinding,' Medicaid Enrollment Is Down About 10M
Two-thirds of the 48 million beneficiaries who have had their eligibility reviewed so far got their coverage renewed.
Finance
Navigating the Financial Aftermath: How COVID Cost One State's Hospitals $8.1B
Healthcare CFOs know the pandemic cost them big, but now there's a number attached for one state.
Covid-19
Rift Over When to Use N95s Puts Health Workers at Risk Again
The pandemic illustrated how a rift between the CDC and workplace safety officials can have serious repercussions.
Clinical Care
What Healthcare Leaders Are Saying About Patient Experience
Find out how they plan to boost patient experience in the years to come.
Covid-19
Is Novavax, the Latecomer Covid Vaccine, Worth the Wait?
Novavax's vaccine is based on proteins rather than mRNA and has been used since early 2022 in other countries.
Covid-19
How Lawmakers in Texas and Florida Undermine COVID Vaccination Efforts
The shift in health information trails rhetoric from Republican politicians who have reversed their positions on COVID vaccines.
Payer
'Worse Than People Can Imagine': Medicaid 'Unwinding' Breeds Chaos in States
The process of reviewing all recipients' eligibility has been anything but smooth for many Medicaid enrollees.
Pharma
Analysis: A New Era of Vaccines Leaves Old Questions About Prices Unanswered
Using novel vaccines wisely ? directing them to the people who need them at a price they can afford ?...
Covid-19
Health Workers Warn Loosening Mask Advice in Hospitals Would Harm Patients and Providers
A CDC draft controversially concludes that N95 face masks are equivalent to looser, surgical face masks in certain settings.