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Innovation
New Licensure Compact Could Boost SDOH, Behavioral Health Outreach
A licensure compact for social workers would enable health systems and hospitals to expand telehealth outreach and include social workers...
Human Resources
States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived.
An acute staffing shortage in the nation's nearly 15,000 nursing homes is at the root of many of the most...
Payer
Supreme Court Decision Limiting the Authority of Federal Agencies Could Have Far-Reaching Impacts for Health Policy
The 'Chevron deference' standard is over. Now courts will not have to accept agency expertise in their review of challenged...
Innovation
CHAI Unveils ‘Responsible Use’ Guidelines for AI in Healthcare
The group, comprised of health systems and vendors, has released an Assurance Standards Guide for AI in healthcare and is...
Payer
Biden Administration Advances Plan To Remove Medical Debt From Credit Scores
Tens of millions of Americans are struggling with medical debt. The Biden Administration is moving forward with a plan to...
Telehealth
House Committee Vote Gives Hope to Extending Telehealth, Hospital at Home Waivers
The House Ways and Means Committee has approved a bill that would extend CMS pandemic-era telehealth waivers another two years...
Payer
Surprise! Telehealth Doesn't Increase Overall Utilization and Cost As Much as We Thought
"Given concerns that telemedicine's convenience will lead to more visits, the relatively small increase in visits that we observed was...
Payer
Rising Complaints of Unauthorized Obamacare Plan-Switching and Sign-Ups Trigger Concern
CMS says it is 'acutely aware' of the problem and is working on solutions.
CEO
At Stake in Mifepristone Case: Abortion, FDA's Authority, and Return to 1873 Obscenity Law
A victory for the plaintiffs would lay the groundwork for a de facto nationwide abortion ban.
CEO
After Appalachian Hospitals Merged Into a Monopoly, Their ERs Slowed to a Crawl
Ballad Health, a 20-hospital system in the Tri-Cities region of Tennessee and Virginia, benefits from the largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly...
Technology
Healthcare Execs Lobby for Federal Patient Identification Standards
The Match IT Act of 2024, now before Congress, would create a federal definition for 'patient match rate' that providers...
Technology
As HIMSS24 Ends, Talk Shifts to AI Accountability
AI adoption is fast outpacing governance, and with memories (or nightmares) of EMR adoption and the Change Healthcare outage on...