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VA halts beleaguered Cerner EHR project through 2021 to try to right the $16B ship
The Department of Veterans Affairs scrapped the rollout schedule for its new medical records system for at least six months to…
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Providers scramble to prevent Congress from using COVID-19 relief monies to pay for infrastructure
Several major hospital groups are ramping up efforts to prevent the Senate from using unspent COVID-19 relief funding to help…
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Ro launches virtual mental health services for anxiety, depression as demand for behavioral health grows
Digital health company Ro is adding virtual mental health services to its growing platform that includes telemedicine, pharmacy distribution and…
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40 health systems requiring mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for their workforces
With cases spiking across the country, top health officials are making it clear that COVID-19 is becoming “a pandemic of…
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Google Cloud rolls out technology to map medical records data to FHIR standard
Large tech giants are jumping into a growing interoperability solutions market as new federal regulations spur the healthcare industry to…
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Health system execs, personnel urge Congress to back Biden’s $5B for gun violence interventions
Eighteen hospitals and health system executives and more than 1,300 healthcare personnel are urging Congressional leaders to support the Biden…
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Oncology group presses CMS to roll back payment cuts, changes to controversial payment model
A top oncology group is calling on the Biden administration to halt a 22% reduction in payments for high-grade radiation…
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Carbon Health banks another $350M to become ‘largest primary care provider in the U.S.’
Carbon Health, a primary care provider combining brick-and-mortar clinics with virtual services, is targeting nationwide expansion with the announcement of a…
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Medical debt now outweighs all other personal debt in U.S. Those in Medicaid non-expansion states are hit the hardest
Although Americans’ overall medical debts have decreased in the decade since the Great Recession, medical bills now outweigh all other…
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New bill seeks to reverse slide in ACO participation with more shared savings
New bipartisan House legislation aims to boost the amount of shared savings that accountable care organizations can receive from the…
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DOJ accuses former nursing school operators of selling fraudulent transcripts, diplomas
Five Maryland, Virginia and Florida residents have been hit with federal charges related to the production and sale of fraudulent…
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Even within the same hospital, Black patients endure more harm than white patients
New data suggest Black adult patients experienced more harmful events, such as perioperative pulmonary embolism, than white patients who were…
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Another medical provider group pushing healthcare employers to require COVID-19 vaccination
The Association of American Medical Colleges has added to the chorus of healthcare industry groups calling for mandatory COVID-19 vaccines…
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Physician groups mount effort to get Congress to avert nearly 4% Medicare payment cut from taking effect in 2022
Several physician groups are mounting a new effort to persuade Congress to step in and prevent a nearly 4% cut…
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Aetna dismisses overbilling lawsuit against Mednax
Aetna has voluntarily dismissed a lawsuit it filed against medical group Mednax, which alleged that the provider ordered unnecessary testing to…
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CMS proposes expanding telehealth reimbursement for mental health as part of Physician Fee Schedule
The Biden administration proposed expanding reimbursement for telehealth for mental and behavioral health services, including paying providers for audio-only services.…
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Salary, representation gaps persist for women teaching internal medicine
Gender-based disparities in academic internal medicine physicians’ pay are shrinking but remain stark among procedural specialties such as pulmonology, gastroenterology…
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Microsoft taps Teladoc to integrate telehealth into Teams app
Teladoc Health is partnering with Microsoft to integrate telehealth into the Teams app for hospitals and health systems. The combination…
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MedStar Health taps real-world data company COTA to advance cancer care
MedStar Health wants to leverage real-world data to drive faster, more precise cancer treatments. The health provider, one of the…
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Infectious disease organizations call for mandatory COVID-19 vaccination among all healthcare personnel
Seven professional organizations for infectious disease, epidemiology and long-term care professionals have released a consensus statement recommending that COVID-19 vaccination…
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Leapfrog report highlights hospitals’ patient communications, care transition shortcomings
A new Leapfrog Group report reviewing nationwide patient experience surveys suggests hospitals have room for improvement when discussing medicines and…
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Judge greenlights $73M sexual abuse settlement involving former UCLA gynecologist
A federal judge has given the go-ahead to a $73 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought against the University…
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Provider groups call Biden executive order on hospital mergers, noncompete clauses misguided and unnecessary
Providers are calling President Joe Biden’s executive order to ratchet up scrutiny of hospital mergers and noncompete clauses as misplaced…
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CVS study: How the pandemic is boosting healthcare consumerism
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed people to embrace new avenues of care, and take greater control of their own health, according…
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VA underestimated infrastructure costs that could raise EHR price tag by up to $5B: OIG
The total cost of the Veterans Affairs Department’s new medical records system could be $2.5 billion to $5.1 billion higher than…
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Walgreens, VillageMD on track to open 29 primary care clinics in Texas this year
VillageMD and retail healthcare giant Walgreens are expanding their primary care footprint with 29 new Village Medical at Walgreens practices…
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Health tech funding snapshot—MA startup AllyAlign Health nabs $300M; Lyra Health draws up $200M for mental health
What do you get when you cross a biotech, a professional golfer and a handful of investment firms? Apparently, a…
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OSHA extends comment period for COVID-19 emergency protection standard
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is giving providers another 30 days to comment on a new COVID-19 emergency protection…
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Telehealth use drops for 3rd straight month as patients return to in-person appointments
Americans are slowly returning to medical facilities to receive care and are using fewer telehealth services after last year’s pandemic…
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U.S. vaccine rollout prevented up to 1.25M hospitalizations, 279K additional deaths, study finds
The quick rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. saved an estimated 279,000 lives and prevented 1.25 million hospitalizations,…
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Healthcare Dealmakers—One Medical acquiring Iora Health for $2.1B; 23andMe wraps up SPAC with $3.5B valuation
Healthcare mergers and acquisitions are in no short supply as providers, payers, health tech companies and other industry players look…
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Digital health funding rockets up to $14.7B, speeding past 2020’s investment
Investors poured $14.7 billion into digital health companies so far in 2021, already outpacing all of 2020’s record-breaking funding. The…
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Cano Health buys Doctor’s Medical Center for $300M to cement its primary care business in Florida
Miami-based Cano Health announced today the acquisition of fellow primary care provider Doctor’s Medical Center (DMC) in a bid to…
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One Medical contests unionizing employees’ ‘unsupported and factually incorrect’ claims of poor pay, mistreatment
More than 500 nonclinical employees at One Medical have declared their intention to join the international labor union Workers United,…
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Chutes & Ladders—Baylor Scott & White Health CEO retires; AANP’s new president begins term
Welcome to this week’s Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your…
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Oklahoma has its first integrated academic health system with OU faculty practice, hospitals merger
After decades apart, the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine faculty practice has merged with OU Medicine’s parent company University…
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Olive rakes in $400M to turbocharge growth of ‘humanized’ AI for healthcare
Healthcare automation startup Olive raked in $400 million in fresh capital to build out its enterprise AI for hospitals. The…
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Provider groups ask OSHA for more time to implement COVID-19 emergency protection standard
Providers are asking the federal government for more time to update their policies and procedures to comply with an emergency…
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Amedisys snaps up hospital-at-home provider Contessa Health in $250M deal
Amedisys made a major move to expand its reach in the home healthcare market by acquiring Contessa Health, one of…
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Excited to share Apple Health Records with a doctor? Thank data interoperability standards like SMART and FHIR
Back in early 2018, Apple entered the personal health record (PHR) space with its Apple Health Records platform. Built directly…
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Former CMMI chief Smith launching value-based care company targeting rural providers
Former Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) chief Brad Smith is using his value-based care experience to launch a new…
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Industry Voices—To see where digital therapeutics is heading, look to MSK care
Sometimes investing gets personal. When I started looking at virtual, digital healthcare platforms for musculoskeletal conditions, it hit close to…
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Swift Medical’s latest partnership accelerates its push into home health market
Digital wound care startup Swift Medical is making moves to corner a bigger share of the home health market. The…
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Hospitals, corporations own nearly half of medical practices spurred by COVID-19 disruption: report
Hospitals and corporate entities acquiring independent practices and hiring away physicians were able to ramp up their efforts during 2020’s…
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To debunk COVID-19 vaccine myths, health officials should turn to the same source that spreads them—social media
Among the many COVID-19 vaccine myths circulating on social media, one of the more persistent false rumors is that the…
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Telehealth use falls 37% from pandemic highs, while demand for healthcare services projected to flatten: report
Future demand for healthcare services will be relatively flat to declining, with little to no effect from the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Biden administration ‘absolutely supportive’ of efforts to expand virtual care, HHS official says
Many provider groups are clamoring for Congress and federal regulators to permanently expand coverage for telehealth visits once the COVID-19…
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AHA makes last-ditch effort to get HHS to extend COVID-19 relief fund deadline
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is imploring the Biden administration to give some hospitals more time to spend their relief dollars…
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Chutes & Ladders—Better Medicare Alliance taps new CEO; Well Health names chief revenue officer
Welcome to this week’s Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your…
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Hims & Hers making its mark in teledermatology with Apostrophe acquisition
On the heels of its acquisition of a British personalized health company earlier this month, Hims & Hers has snapped…
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