August 2021

Finger-pointing over nurse understaffing | Transparency grace period | Healthcare wage trends ()
Payers sour on sharing COVID costs | Medicare saves $4B | Costly unvaccinated hospitalizations ()
Google Health, we hardly knew you | Federal transparency rule making providers & payers twitchy ()
HE news that drew views this week (Aug. 16–20) ()
AI news that drew views this week (Aug. 16–20) ()
Practices paid physicians more for doing less | Booster jabs slated for September | More ()
Jabs mandated in the Nation’s Capital | Patient experience often crappy | Littlest COVID carriers quite contagious ()
HE news that drew views this week (Aug. 9–13) ()
AI news that drew views this week (Aug. 9–13) ()
Hot topic: Top 10 COVID-19 stories of the past 30 days ()
Open enrollment opens floodgates | Vax OK’d for humans bearing babies | More ()
$2B purchase highlights changing face of homecare | CVS lets J&J vax supply run dry | More ()
HE news that drew views this week (Aug. 2–6) ()
AI news that drew views this week (Aug. 2–6) ()
Vaccine uncertainty vs. COVID ambiguity | Care costliest in the US | New equity outfit eyes value-based care ()
Hospital expenses neutralizing revenue gains | 70% vaccinated as new COVID risks rise | Best & worst healthcare ()