Wednesday, December 1, 2021: Providers

Kaufman Hall’s latest National Hospital Flash Report shows that U.S. hospitals and health systems margins declined for the second straight month in October. According to the report, median change in operating margin was down 12.1 percent from September to October, and...

Wednesday, December 1, 2021: Providers

A federal court in Louisiana blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for health care workers across the country, except in the 10 states where the rule has already been paused. The Louisiana court considered limiting the injunction to the 14...

Wednesday, December 1, 2021: Payers

A new poll from Willis Towers Watson shows that nearly 85 percent of employers plan to offer COVID-19 testing or test employees regularly as they return to the workplace, 80 percent of which say they’ll do so weekly. More than half (57 percent) of employers...

Wednesday, December 1, 2021: Life Sciences

An advisory panel to the FDA narrowly endorsed Merck & Co. and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP’s COVID-19 antiviral pill for patients at high risk of severe illness. The treatment could be available to patients within weeks if the agency authorizes it. In the...