Hospital outpatient providers could see a $6.2 billion increase in Medicare reimbursements next year under a proposed rule issued Friday. In addition, the draft regulation provides more details on the agency’s new rural emergency hospital program, which is designed to help facilities in remote areas remain open. Medicare would pay 2.7% more for outpatient and ambulatory surgical center services in […]
A draft version of Medicare’s unified post-acute care payment model dropped earlier this month. Already, health care stakeholders are describing the plan as an “unworkable” model with “numerous fundamental flaws.” The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), along with the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), were charged with developing a universal, site-neutral payment model for post-acute […]
A number of lawmakers voted against their parties Friday on two bills to protect abortion access, which the House passed exactly three weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The lower chamber voted 223-205 on the Ensuring Access to Abortion Act, a measure that seeks to protect women who travel to a different state to receive an abortion […]
Novartis’s main offerings for cardiovascular disease are drugs prescribed as a response to symptoms. However, heart problems can develop years before signs appear and the pharmaceutical giant wants to find new approaches to these disorders. A new partnership aims to develop artificial intelligence-based software that detects hidden cardiovascular conditions. The collaboration is with Anumana, company that develops algorithms that […]
President Joe Biden seemed to bow Friday to Sen. Joe Manchin’s demand for a slimmed-down economic package, telling Democrats to quickly push the measure through Congress so families could “sleep easier” and enjoy the healthcare savings it proposes. Biden’s statement came hours after Manchin, the West Virginian who is one of Congress’ more conservative Democrats, said that if party leaders […]
This article is sponsored by Integrated Home Care Services. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Integrated Home Care Services (IHCS) co-founder Paul Pino to learn the top challenges in the home-based care space, and how the IHCS model addresses those challenges. Pino also shares why he views the IHCS model as “the future of health […]
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) introduced legislation seeking to offer expanded resources to pregnant women Thursday, including a website that provides information on the risks of abortion and alternatives to the procedure. A bill introduced by Rubio in the Senate, in addition to a companion bill offered by Mace in the House, would instruct the Health […]
Earlier this week, New York city’s system for scheduling vaccination appointments crashed due to online traffic. The U.S. government has shipped 132,000 doses of the vaccine to health departments, including more than 21,000 to New York City and 44,000 to California. Federal officials are distributing the vaccines based on each area’s case numbers and the portion of the population that […]
Introduction Women of color have much at stake in the June 2022 Supreme Court ruling in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The decision overturned the longstanding Constitutional right to abortion and eliminated federal standards on abortion access that had been established by earlier decisions in the cases, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Going forward, it will be […]
The House on Friday passed two bills aimed at protecting access to abortion, marking the chamber’s first legislative attempts at safeguarding the procedure after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month. The first bill — the Women’s Health Protection Act — passed in a 219-210 vote, clearing the House for a second time in the past year. The lower chamber previously […]