Claire Ernst, director of government affairs for the Medical Group Management Association, talked to us about why extending the federal COVID-19 health emergency was so important for healthcare providers.

Many hospitals are experiencing losses for 2022, a year that some are calling the most difficult operating environment they’ve ever experienced. 

Hospitals have been nationally ranked by popular media sources such as U.S. World News & Report for decades, but the quality measures used to determine these lists may be missing one key domain––health equity.

The 2022-2023 flu season is off to an early start, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which noted there are increases happening in most of the country despite relatively low activity overall.

Fitzgerald, a leading figure in interventional cardiology, praised the company's potential to improve patient outcomes and quality of life. 

COVID-19 vaccines were very effective at preventing serious illness and excess deaths in 2021, according to new data from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The vaccines were also linked to considerable cost savings. 

While the Biden administration and federal agencies have made price transparency a long-term goal for the U.S. healthcare industry, a recent study revealed Americans aren’t actually shopping around very often for better healthcare prices.

The medical industry directs the vast majority of its spending for the promotion and advertising of medical devices and drugs towards physicians––but those industry payments are significantly larger for male physicians compared to female physicians.