In fight over drug discounts, HHS lawyer sides with hospitals
Federal regulators are siding with hospitals in their fight with drug manufacturers over a drug-discount program. Citing the potential for waste and abuse, at least...
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46 hospitals file suit to reverse HHS bad debt policy
Forty-six hospitals have filed a lawsuit against Alex M. Azar II, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, arguing for the reversal of...
Hospitals lose appeal to block CMS’ price transparency rule
Despite hospital groups’ attempts to prevent its enforcement, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s hospital price transparency rule will go into effect Jan. 1, as...
How Cerner plans to bolster rural hospitals’ telehealth efforts amid the pandemic and beyond
Rural hospitals, many of which were already in dire straits, have been hit especially hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. The public health crisis has exacerbated...
Provider groups, hospitals file motion to stop CMS from enforcing price transparency rule
The American Hospital Association, along with several other organizations, filed an emergency stay of enforcement motion to prevent the Department of Health and Human Services’...
Hospitals sue drug companies over discount program
A legal fight has erupted over a drug-discount program designed to benefit uninsured and low-income people. Hospital groups are suing a federal agency in hopes...
Hospitals scramble to prioritize which workers are first for Covid Shots
If there’s such a thing as a date with destiny, it’s marked on Dr. Taison Bell’s calendar. At noon Tuesday, Bell, a critical care physician,...
QliqSOFT, CPSI to offer Covid-19 vaccine chatbot to community hospitals
QliqSOFT and CPSI are collaborating to release the COVID-19 Vaccination Assistant, a chatbot designed to help healthcare providers address patient concerns as the country prepares...
As hospitals fill with Covid-19 patients, medical reinforcements are hard to find
Nurse is comforting a covid patient at the ICU Hospitals in much of the country are trying to cope with unprecedented numbers of Covid-19 patients....
5 ways U.S. hospitals can protect against ‘imminent’ ransomware threat
At a time that health systems are already burdened by a once-in-a-lifetime public health crisis, they have to take on another challenge: malware. Three federal...