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Andy Slavitt, the former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Obama administration, is temporarily taking over Cityblock Health. 

Amazon, the Mayo Clinic and HIMSS are among those fighting to keep exemptions in place throughout the end of the public health emergency.

Last February a teaching hospital in the Northeast sacked three pediatric emergency doctors, all in their mid-50s. A handful filed suit, alleging the institution and its parent organization acted primarily out of age discrimination.

The lack of cooperation may be hindering efforts to rein in cancer costs and improve affordability, oncology experts explained recently.

The new center’s founders say they’ll prioritize addressing healthcare disparities associated with the disease itself and with other types of dementia.  

Industry researchers challenged a machine learning model to predict failure to heal at four, eight and 12 weeks after initial treatment.