Two days before HHS was to stop accepting providers’ applications for a second, $15 billion round of CARES Act relief funding, the agency is announcing it will extend the deadline to Sept. 13.

It's believed to be the first such facility to implement a rapid testing program and is powered by Dignity Health St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco and GoHealth Urgent Care.

Unless there’s a turnaround from the high costs and low revenues of the COVID healthcare economy, more than 70% of nursing homes and 64% of assisted living communities will not be here a year from now.  

More than half of Americans, 54%, have seen doctors remotely during the COVID crisis. However, some 48% might not touch telehealth again if their data were to get hacked during a telehealth-related breach.

HHS says bullseye recipients are pediatric hospitals that are unaffiliated with larger health systems, serve vulnerable populations and have taken revenue hits during the COVID crisis.

The recent spike is directly attributable to the growing case count among the general population in the Sun Belt, according to a new report from one of the nation's leading long-term care organizations.

Former CMS acting head Andy Slavitt, MBA, is virtually fist-bumping the FDA for greenlighting Yale’s fast and cheap SalivaDirect protocol for COVID testing.

After weathering rising costs in its health insurance business due to claims coming in from rescheduled procedures, CVS Health expects excellent 2020 earnings on the strength of its diversified business model.