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Opinion: Violence against healthcare workers must end

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Mar 25, 2023

Ending the epidemic of violence against caregivers requires a zero-tolerance approach, and it starts with leadership, Drs. Bruce Meyer and Tom Campbe...

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Mar 25, 2023

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...

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Mar 25, 2023

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...

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Prostate cancer in transgender women

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Mar 25, 2023

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Why eat lower on the seafood chain?

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Mar 25, 2023

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Can long COVID affect the gut?

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Mar 25, 2023

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Mar 25, 2023

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Mar 24, 2023

A new NIMH-supported study revealed differences in rates of mental health care among Medicaid enrollees based on where they live in the United States.

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Mar 24, 2023

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...

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Mar 23, 2023

A bill that passed Wednesday on the state level is being touted as a potential blueprint to mitigating home-based care workforce shortages nationwide...

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Mar 23, 2023

PurposeCare – a relatively new and quickly growing home-based care provider – has acquired the St. Joseph Michigan-based Home Sweet Home In-Home Care...

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Mar 23, 2023

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...

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Mar 23, 2023

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 ...

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Mar 23, 2023

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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Mar 23, 2023

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Mar 23, 2023

Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday March 16 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are futurist Ian Morrison (@seccurve); writer Kim Bellard (@kimbb...

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Elia Stupka, Angelini Ventures

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Mar 23, 2023

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 ...

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Mar 22, 2023

Analyzing genomic data from more than 1 million people, researchers have identified genes that are commonly inherited across substance use disorders, ...

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Mar 22, 2023

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...

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Mar 22, 2023

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 ...

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Mar 22, 2023

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...

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Mar 22, 2023

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...

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Mar 22, 2023

The Michigan Academy of Family Physicians is asking the state for more financial support for medical students doing their residency in an underserved...

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Mar 21, 2023

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...

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Mar 21, 2023

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...

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Mar 21, 2023

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, ...

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Mar 21, 2023

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,...

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Mar 21, 2023

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Mar 21, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted mental health struggles among healthcare workers. Health systems such as Oschner Health and CommonSpirit are sustai...

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Mar 21, 2023

With a pandemic-era rule expiring this month, people on Medicaid will have to re-qualify to keep their coverage. Language barriers, housing instabili...

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Mar 21, 2023

Without the legislation, some Kentucky hospitals would have been forced to start cutting costs, the bill's supporters said.

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Mar 21, 2023

Following the U.S. Senate’s request for information (RFI) regarding solutions to the national health care workforce crisis, the Partnership for Quali...

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Mar 21, 2023

In less than two weeks, there may be far fewer eligible Medicaid beneficiaries. Medicaid membership ballooned during the pandemic. Millions of people...

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Mar 21, 2023

Marking the three-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic seems like a good time for reflection.

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Mar 21, 2023

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 ...

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Mar 20, 2023

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Mar 20, 2023

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...

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Mar 20, 2023

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is essential for well-being. Making simple changes in your daily routine can lead to a healthier lifestyle. Exercise ...

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Mar 18, 2023

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. ...

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Mar 18, 2023

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Mar 18, 2023

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...

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Mar 18, 2023

BrightStar Care names new chief marketing officer BrightStar Care has promoted Teresa Celmer to chief marketing officer. Prior to her appointment, sh...

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Mar 17, 2023

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...

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Mar 17, 2023

Regulators are unjustly withholding tens of millions of dollars in adjusted Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments, more than 40 hospitals...

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Mar 17, 2023

In recognition of World Bipolar Day, NIMH is conducting a Facebook Live on bipolar disorder in adults.

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Mar 17, 2023

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...

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How to Lose Pregnancy Weight Gained

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Mar 16, 2023

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...

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Mar 16, 2023

What you "don’t" can matter more than what you do. The post 5 Common Habits That Kill Your Drive, Motivation, And Energy appeared first on Primer.

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Mar 16, 2023

A slew of nonprofit and for-profit health systems reported fewer admissions in 2022, a factor that often coincided with big financial losses.

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Mar 16, 2023

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...

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Mar 15, 2023

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...

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Mar 15, 2023

The post Top 10 Emerging Neurotech Companies Changing the Future in 2023, March2023 appeared first on Insights Care.

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Mar 15, 2023

The Kaiser Family Foundation study also noted that systems provide just $16 billion in charity care.

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Mar 15, 2023

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Mar 14, 2023

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...

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Mar 14, 2023

The decision comes weeks before the state's Office of Health Strategy was scheduled to hold a public hearing on the planned merger.

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Mar 14, 2023

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...

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Pediatric mortality rates rising

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Mar 14, 2023

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...

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Mar 14, 2023

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...

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A big data COVID train wreck

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Mar 13, 2023

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 ...

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Mar 13, 2023

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...

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Mar 12, 2023

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...

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Mar 11, 2023

A bipartisan group of senators wants to make daylight saving time permanent. But sleep experts say standard time is better, because it saves morning ...

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Mar 11, 2023

Roughly $80 billion in healthcare deposits and investments are in question following California's shutdown of Silicon Valley Bank.

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Mar 10, 2023

Walgreens finds itself in a somewhat unique position regarding decisions about the dispensing of mifepristone because of its strategic push into valu...

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Mar 10, 2023

Under new FDA regulations, mammogram amenities would be bound to inform patients about the intensity of their breasts. Women with dense breast tissue...

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Mar 10, 2023

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...

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Mar 06, 2023

BY MIKE MAGEE Medicine does not exist in a vacuum. The trusting relationships that underpin it function within an ever-changing environment of shifti...

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Mar 06, 2023

(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...

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Mar 06, 2023

When the covid-19 pandemic swept the country in early 2020 and emptied doctors’ offices nationwide, telemedicine was suddenly thrust into the spotlig...

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Mar 06, 2023

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...

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Mar 06, 2023

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...

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Mar 06, 2023

Mairéad McInerney, corporate director of population health-wellness coordination and member experience at AmeriHealth Caritas, sought a purposeful jo...

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Mar 06, 2023

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 ...

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Mar 06, 2023

The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program collects data by performing whole-genome sequencing on a diverse cohort of participant...

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Leadership lessons from the pandemic

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Mar 06, 2023

Dr. Kimberly Togliatti-Trickett of University Hospitals and ACHE's Deborah Bowen weigh in on economic and operational challenges at healthcare organi...

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Mar 06, 2023

Dr. Tiffany Kung, researcher at virtual pulmonary rehab treatment center AnsibleHealth, discusses how ChatGPT could be used in the healthcare industr...

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Mar 06, 2023

Out recently is an interesting AEA paper by Okeke 2023, who examines a policy experiment by the Nigerian government that aimed determine whether expa...

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Mar 06, 2023

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...

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Mar 06, 2023

Mamou, Louisiana—the self-proclaimed Cajun Music Capital of the World—has been federally designated as medically underserved since 1978.

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Mar 06, 2023

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...

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Mar 05, 2023

A prominent group of nurses in California slammed a state plan to rollback masking and COVID-19 vaccine requirements in health care settings starting...

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Mar 05, 2023

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”...

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Mar 05, 2023

The health community is growing more concerned about Shigella bacteria infections that have shown a resistance to drugs. The Centers for Disease Cont...

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Mar 05, 2023

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Mar 05, 2023

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 ...

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Mar 04, 2023

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...

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Mar 04, 2023

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...

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Mar 04, 2023

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...

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Mar 03, 2023

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MetroHealth CFO leaves system

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Mar 03, 2023

This is the latest exit from MetroHealth's leadership since the system's board of trustees fired former president and CEO Dr. Akram Boutros.

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Mar 03, 2023

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...

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Mar 03, 2023

The year 2022 might have been the ‘worst operating income’ year ever for health systems, one Fitch analyst said.

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Will half the world be overweight?

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Mar 03, 2023

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...

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Mar 03, 2023

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...

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Mar 03, 2023

A Healthy Heart Ensures a Healthy Brain and Improved Focus on Important Matters. ~ Chidiebere Moses Ogbodo. Your heart is an incredibly complex organ...

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Mar 03, 2023

Are you searching for the best healthcare company? Many people may think that being the largest healthcare company automatically qualifies as the bes...

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Mar 02, 2023

North Carolina's hospitals would pay the state's share of the cost to expand Medicaid coverage to an estimated 600,000 residents.

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Mar 02, 2023

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...

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Mar 02, 2023

Injuries, abuse, and neglect have continued at the state-run psychiatric facility that lost its federal certification due to preventable patient deat...

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I Love Explaining Medical Things

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Mar 02, 2023

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...

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Mar 01, 2023

The insurtech Bright Health has just weeks to raise about $300 million after overdrawing a credit line, CEO Mike Mikan told investors.

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Mar 01, 2023

Insurers are reporting much higher gross margins per enrollee in the Medicare Advantage (MA) market than in other health insurance markets, according...

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Mar 01, 2023

AdventHealth's operating expenses grew 11% in 2022, squeezing the health system's finances.

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Mar 01, 2023

Community Health Systems will sell Lake Norman Regional Medical Center and Davis Regional Medical Center in North Carolina to Novant Health in a deal...

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Feb 28, 2023

Rishi Shah's defense attorney took his shots at star witness Ashik Desai, who testified as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.

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Feb 28, 2023

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Feb 28, 2023

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot that can have human-like conversations, translate, and provide users with information. It can also wri...

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Feb 28, 2023

Home-based care leaders are constantly looking to other industries to find inspiration. Take the airline industry, for example. Despite some of its w...

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Feb 27, 2023

The company said its behavioral healthcare facilities in particular have been unable to fill job openings and forced to limit patient volumes.

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Feb 27, 2023

The federal agency that oversees Medicaid suggested Idaho wasn't trying hard enough to reach beneficiaries before letting their coverage lapse. Consu...

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Feb 27, 2023

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...

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