by Jordana Choucair | Sep 30, 2022 | Providers
A federal judge ordered that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must reinstate full 340B drug payments for the rest of 2022. Judge Rudolph Contreras’ ruling followed a Supreme Court decision in June that ordered HHS to pay providers for the smaller...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 29, 2022 | Providers
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a new report revealing that 27 percent of Head Start grant recipients had incidents of child abuse, lack of supervision, or unauthorized releases to adults. Nearly 20...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 28, 2022 | Providers
The Senate passed a continuing resolution bill that would temporarily extend two Medicare programs. The measure would extend the Medicare Dependent Hospital program to boost financial support for rural hospitals with at least 60 percent of their patients covered by...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 26, 2022 | Providers
A New York Times (NYT) investigation found that many of the country’s largest nonprofit hospital systems have drifted far from their charitable roots. According to the NYT analysis, more than half of all hospitals in the U.S. are set up as nonprofit, a designation...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 21, 2022 | Providers
The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the American Medical Association (AMA) dropped their lawsuit against the federal government over the implementation of Congress’ surprise billing law. The lawsuit alleged that the rulemaking process shifted from...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 19, 2022 | Providers
Kaufman Hall released a report projecting that over 50 percent of hospitals in the United States will end 2022 with operations in the red. According to the report, 53 percent to 68 percent will end the year in debt vs. the 34 percent reported in 2019. The firm expects...
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