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Over 9,000 eligible nursing homes, or 69%, will receive a portion of $523 million in COVID-19 Provider Relief Funds for meeting infection control and mortality criteria in effect from September through October, the Health Resources and Services Administration announced.
The Department of Health and Human Services has released hospital-level data on COVID-19 capacity, aggregated by week going back to Aug. 1.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dec. 9 at 4 p.m. ET will host a call to discuss recent flexibilities the agency announced to allow acute health care services to be provided outside of a hospital setting in response to the surging COVID-19 pandemic.
New edition of COVID-19 Snapshot paints difficult picture for hospitals scrambling for pandemic help
The AHA released a new edition of the COVID-19 Snapshot to impart upon Congress the critical needs of hospitals and health systems during the deepening public health emergency.
The Food and Drug Administration released a briefing document on Pfizer’s BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine candidate that confirms the drug maker’s claims of the vaccine’s efficacy and safety.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments in cases challenging the Department of Health and Human Services for authorizing Arkansas and New Hampshire to condition Medicaid coverage on work requirements and other restrictions.
The Department of Health and Human Services should withdraw a proposed rule that would require it to assess a regulation periodically to determine whether it has a significant economic impact on small entities and, if so, review the regulation to determine whether to retain, modify or eliminate it…
Acute-care hospitals reduced Clostridium difficile infections by 18%, catheter-associated urinary tract infections by 8% and central line-associated bloodstream infections by 7% in 2019, according to the latest progress report on reducing healthcare-associated infections from the Centers for…
President-elect Joe Biden nominated California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as the next Health and Human Services Secretary.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published an addenda with instructions for implementing six new ICD-10 diagnosis codes for reporting COVID-19-related conditions on health care claims effective Jan. 1.