The American Medical Association is strongly urging California Governor Gavin Newsom to veto a bill that would allow nurse practitioners (NPs) to practice without physician supervision.

Of 127 hospital executives involved in a successful merger or acquisition over the past five years, more cited “ability to survive” than any other reason for making the move.

In real dollars, these payers’ combined savings would have nearly reached $20 billion just in 2018, the analysis shows.

A common tactic is sending off Medicaid-covered seniors with dementia following emergency “psychotic” episodes. When psychiatric wards and hospitals quickly discharge the patients, the nursing homes refuse to take them back in.

Michigan Medicine medical doctors recently detailed their advice in the Annals of Surgery. 

The Trump Administration’s main aim is widening consumer access to lower prices.

So many parents have held children back from visiting clinicians’ offices during the COVID crisis that CMS is issuing an urgent call to action: Please hold them back no more.

The emerging academic discipline of social data science, which leverages Big Data to integrate social science with computer science, has a new base of operations in the Mid-Atlantic region.