Ending the epidemic of violence against caregivers requires a zero-tolerance approach, and it starts with leadership, Drs. Bruce Meyer and Tom Campbe...
States can't use Medicaid to pay directly for rent, but Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking the Biden administration to authorize a program called "transiti...
Home-based care is arguably getting more attention from the U.S. president now than it ever has before. So much so, in fact, that home health provide...
A new species of mosquito from South America has been discovered in Florida. This new species of mosquito could cause problems. According to NPR, the...
A bill that passed Wednesday on the state level is being touted as a potential blueprint to mitigating home-based care workforce shortages nationwide...
PurposeCare – a relatively new and quickly growing home-based care provider – has acquired the St. Joseph Michigan-based Home Sweet Home In-Home Care...
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Under the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model, more reimbursement has to be earned. With...
Scientists have sequenced the genome of Ludwig van Beethoven from two-century-old locks of hair, and found clues about the ailments that plagued him ...
After nearly four years as an American expat parent in Germany, here are my takeaways. The post American Parenting vs German Parenting: 5 Surprising ...
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I’ve been friends with Roberto Ascione for many years. Roberto is a keen Napoli fan who on the side runs the Healthware Group and also the Frontiers ...
Analyzing genomic data from more than 1 million people, researchers have identified genes that are commonly inherited across substance use disorders, ...
GOOD Meat, which grows chicken and other meat from animal cells in a production facility, is the second company to cross this hurdle. The move brings...
Mora Leeb was 9 months old when surgeons removed half her brain. Now 15, she plays soccer and tells jokes. Scientists say Mora is an extreme example ...
Giving Home Health Care has secured a $300 million credit facility led by Brightwood Capital Advisors. With that backing, GHCC plans to grow its pati...
Ogi Kavazovic, CEO of House Rx joined Matthew Holt to explain how his company is trying to ungum the specialty pharmacy market. Its a huge market wit...
The Michigan Academy of Family Physicians is asking the state for more financial support for medical students doing their residency in an underserved...
While many providers in the larger home-based care space have struggled with collecting data, MD at Home considers data utilization one of the pillar...
While many providers in the larger home-based care space have struggled with collecting data, MD at Home considers data utilization one of the pillar...
Health care professionals working in acute settings are often in the line of fire when it comes to workplace violence. That is well documented. Yet, ...
Humans have an evolutionary instinct to be lazy. We will always choose the path of least resistance. Take the remote control, for example. Years ago,...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted mental health struggles among healthcare workers. Health systems such as Oschner Health and CommonSpirit are sustai...
With a pandemic-era rule expiring this month, people on Medicaid will have to re-qualify to keep their coverage. Language barriers, housing instabili...
Following the U.S. Senate’s request for information (RFI) regarding solutions to the national health care workforce crisis, the Partnership for Quali...
In less than two weeks, there may be far fewer eligible Medicaid beneficiaries. Medicaid membership ballooned during the pandemic. Millions of people...
That is the question posed in paper by Baker, Larcker and Wang (2022). I summarize their key arguments below. The validity of……approach rests on the ...
Medicare Advantage enrollment grew 7% between February 2022 and February 2023, the slowest rate in at least five years. Here's who won and lost the r...
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is essential for well-being. Making simple changes in your daily routine can lead to a healthier lifestyle. Exercise ...
Health care vans that provided COVID testing and vaccines in the pandemic are now providing a range of health services in hard-to-reach communities. ...
Pay for travel nurses rose during the COVID-19 pandemic, but some hospitals have accused staffing agencies of price gouging. They're asking states to...
BrightStar Care names new chief marketing officer BrightStar Care has promoted Teresa Celmer to chief marketing officer. Prior to her appointment, sh...
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Heading into 2020 — the first year of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) — many believed there...
Regulators are unjustly withholding tens of millions of dollars in adjusted Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments, more than 40 hospitals...
Babesiosis is a tick-borne disease that can be fatal in a small number of cases. According to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...
It is normal for pregnant women to gain weight. Experts The post How to Lose Pregnancy Weight Gained appeared first on Natural Way of Excellent Healt...
BY HANS DUVEFELT I have written many times about how I have made a better diagnosis than the doctor who saw my patient in the emergency room. That do...
Many of Ricardo Nuila's patients at Houston's Ben Taub Hospital are dealing with serious illnesses as a result of not being able to access basic prev...
The fund manager knew there would be trouble after he read a Wall Street Journal story that accused the startup of overbilling and misleading drug co...
Your lifestyle completely transforms when you welcome a baby into your life. You must head out with a bunch of baby products and supplies; when we sa...
Some troubling statistics published recently by Woolf et al. (2023) using CDC WONDER data: Between 2019 and 2020, the all-cause mortality rate for ag...
Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) has its new CEO. After a four-month-long search, the company’s board has named Richard Ashworth to the role. He will als...
BY ANISH KOKA If there was any doubt the academic research enterprise is completely broken, we have an absolute train wreck of a study in one of the ...
Researchers investigated whether home delivery of ART for a modest fee could help improve ART access and use, finding it resulted in increased viral s...
BY HANS DUVEFELT You don’t really need a medical degree to know how to follow an immunization schedule, to recommend a colonoscopy, or order a screen...
A bipartisan group of senators wants to make daylight saving time permanent. But sleep experts say standard time is better, because it saves morning ...
Walgreens finds itself in a somewhat unique position regarding decisions about the dispensing of mifepristone because of its strategic push into valu...
Under new FDA regulations, mammogram amenities would be bound to inform patients about the intensity of their breasts. Women with dense breast tissue...
A number of lawmakers – including Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) – introduced a bill Thursday that would expand coverage of...
BY MIKE MAGEE Medicine does not exist in a vacuum. The trusting relationships that underpin it function within an ever-changing environment of shifti...
(NewsNation) — A common asthma drug is in short supply after one of the last major manufacturers shut down operations. Albuterol is used to treat ast...
When the covid-19 pandemic swept the country in early 2020 and emptied doctors’ offices nationwide, telemedicine was suddenly thrust into the spotlig...
Just off the historic U.S. Route 66 in eastern New Mexico, a 10-bed hospital has for decades provided emergency care for a steady flow of people inju...
For years, the FDA has defended its efforts to intercept prescription drugs coming from abroad by mail as necessary to keep out dangerous opioids, in...
Mairéad McInerney, corporate director of population health-wellness coordination and member experience at AmeriHealth Caritas, sought a purposeful jo...
The 45,000-square-foot floor provides a music room, sacred space, sleeping nooks and classrooms with the aim of injecting normalcy into the hospital ...
The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program collects data by performing whole-genome sequencing on a diverse cohort of participant...
Dr. Kimberly Togliatti-Trickett of University Hospitals and ACHE's Deborah Bowen weigh in on economic and operational challenges at healthcare organi...
Dr. Tiffany Kung, researcher at virtual pulmonary rehab treatment center AnsibleHealth, discusses how ChatGPT could be used in the healthcare industr...
Out recently is an interesting AEA paper by Okeke 2023, who examines a policy experiment by the Nigerian government that aimed determine whether expa...
The U.S. spends billions on healthcare every year, but areas that rank worst on the CDC's social vulnerability index suffer from the system's many sh...
The New York City borough's plight is forcing low-income residents to delay care. But when they need them, appointments with providers can be hard to...
A prominent group of nurses in California slammed a state plan to rollback masking and COVID-19 vaccine requirements in health care settings starting...
Midwest KHN correspondent Bram Sable-Smith discussed the Eli Lilly news on insulin prices on “PBS NewsHour” and insulin prices on Slate’s “What Next”...
The health community is growing more concerned about Shigella bacteria infections that have shown a resistance to drugs. The Centers for Disease Cont...
In Texas, many uninsured people can access Medicaid if they get pregnant. But 2 months after giving birth, the coverage ends. Advocates say new moms ...
The Michigan-based health system recorded nearly $157.8 million in net operating income on $13.8 billion in total operating revenues across all busin...
It’s more important than ever for home health organizations to be ready for the survey process. In order to be prepared, providers will need to be ar...
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership More immigration – and changes to U.S. visa stipulations – would be a major boost from home-based car...
The statement comes after attorneys general in 20 states warned Walgreens that it could face legal action if it sells abortion pills by mail in those...
A study by the World Obesity Foundation predicts that more than half the global population will be living with overweight and obesity within 12 years...
Over the next year, Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) expects to grow its Best Buy Health sales faster than its base business as it leans more heavily into its at...
A Healthy Heart Ensures a Healthy Brain and Improved Focus on Important Matters. ~ Chidiebere Moses Ogbodo. Your heart is an incredibly complex organ...
Are you searching for the best healthcare company? Many people may think that being the largest healthcare company automatically qualifies as the bes...
A new technique can diagnose COVID-19 more quickly and accurately than current techniques. The method was developed based on how the body expresses i...
Injuries, abuse, and neglect have continued at the state-run psychiatric facility that lost its federal certification due to preventable patient deat...
BY HANS DUVEFELT A lot of people don’t know much about how the body works. One of my jobs as a physician is to explain how things work in order to em...
Insurers are reporting much higher gross margins per enrollee in the Medicare Advantage (MA) market than in other health insurance markets, according...
Community Health Systems will sell Lake Norman Regional Medical Center and Davis Regional Medical Center in North Carolina to Novant Health in a deal...
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot that can have human-like conversations, translate, and provide users with information. It can also wri...
Home-based care leaders are constantly looking to other industries to find inspiration. Take the airline industry, for example. Despite some of its w...
The federal agency that oversees Medicaid suggested Idaho wasn't trying hard enough to reach beneficiaries before letting their coverage lapse. Consu...
Blue Cross Medicare Advantage members in 24 counties outside of the Twin Cities metropolitan area will have access to Homeward's tech and in-home ser...