The U.S. healthcare industry employs 16.8 million. In the pandemic, it is considered an “essential industry” among several considered necessary to managing the crisis. Its frontline workers in nursing homes…
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Friday, the Value in Health Care Act of 2020 was introduced by U.S. Representatives Peter Welch, Suzan DelBene, and Darin LaHood. Its focus is the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP)…
Medicare Advantage (MA) has been an option for seniors since 2003. By all accounts, it’s doing well: According to the Medicare Alliance, an advocacy group supportive of MA “With a…
Healthcare delivery in the U.S. is big business: annual spending for hospitals, physicians, allied health professionals, post-acute services and the prescriptions and tests they order represents almost 80% of the…
Last week, Gilead Sciences announced pricing for its breakthrough Covid-19 drug remdesivir (brand name Veklury) approved by the FDA for emergency use in May. The company announced it will charge…
Over the weekend, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic hit a staggering milestone: 10 million have been infected worldwide and 500,000 have died. In the U.S., infections exceed 2.5 million…
In a letter to Vice President Pence and House Speaker Pelosi last week, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission conveyed its annual report to Congress: “Medicare and the Health Care Delivery…
Last weekend, Susan Bailey, M.D., an allergist and immunologist from Fort Worth, Texas, was sworn in as the 175th President of the American Medical Association (AMA) at its virtual House…
According to the American Hospital Association, 57% of the 5198 non-federal, short-term community hospitals in the U.S. operate as private, nonprofit organizations. 25% operate as for-profit and 19% are owned…
On March 14, Surgeon General Jerome Adams urged a widespread halt of hospital elective procedures amid mounting concern that the health system did not have enough beds to manage a…
