Relevant Updates for Busy Healthcare Professionals
CMS finalizes rule aimed at cutting lag time of Medicare coverage for breakthrough devices
Fierce Healthcare
Elizabeth Holmes’ $4.5B fortune, luxury lifestyle ‘created powerful motive’ for fraud, prosecutors say
Fox Business
3 healthcare policy predictions now that Democrats have won control of the Senate
Vox
Healthcare Cyber Attacks Spike
Healthcare Dive
Court Ruling in Favor of Hospital Price Transparency
Real Clear Politics
Newly Recorded COVID Cases and Deaths Are Declining
Reason
Inflated COVID-19 death counts could cause vaccine trepidation
The Hill
The Mysterious Link Between COVID-19 and Sleep
The Atlantic
Reaching Compliance: CMS Price Transparency Rule
BDO
Bipartisan agreement on provider-friendly surprise billing deal ups chance of passage
Healthcare Dive
Are Americans insufficiently alarmed by COVID?
Reason
How this surgeon beat a medical staff disciplinary action
KevinMD
Operation Warp Speed pushing to vaccinate 100M against COVID-19 by end of February
Fierce Healthcare
Discovery shines light on how cancer cells could protect themselves
Medical Xpress
Hospitals adopt new round of elective surgery restrictions, brace for post-Thanksgiving COVID-19 surge
Healthcare Dive
The Carb Wars Continue
WSJ
Operation Warp Speed projects 70% herd immunity, potential return to normalcy May 2021
Fox News
The art of listening
A Country Doctor Writes
Is there actually an underinsurance crisis?
Medical Economics
Kavanaugh, Roberts signal support for ACA without mandate in pivotal case
Healthcare Dive
Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump
NY Times
Balance of Power in Senate Remains Undetermined
NY Post
Biden faces a divided Congress, stifling chance for more progressive health policies
Healthcare Dive
Londoners Enjoy Final Night Out Before New Lockdown
Reuters via YouTube
Is there a role for vitamin D in the treatment of COVID?
KevinMD
CMS requires government, most private plans to cover COVID-19 vaccines
Fierce Healthcare
As Telehealth Use Skyrockets CMS Expands Payment List
Vitale Health Law
OxyContin maker to plead guilty to federal criminal charges, pay $8 billion, and will close the company
CNN
The Great Barrington Declaration is an ethical nightmare
Vox
Is there life after medicine?
KevinMD
COVID-19 frequently causes neurological injuries
ScienceDaily
Our Loss: The Greatest Generation Is Dying Out
KevinMD
Lyft Integrates with Epic
Healthcare Dive
2020 Breaks Record in Digital Health Investment with $9.4B in Funding
Fierce Healthcare
President and First Lady Test Positive for COVID
Fox News
Deadly Spread of Some Cancers May Be Driven by a Common Mouth Microbe
Scientific American
A Certainty of Medicine Is that Caregivers Will Forever Wrestle with Uncertainty
Real Clear Health
Medicare to save $73.4B with surgery in ASCs through 2028: 5 things to know
Becker’s ASC Review
What Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death means for the Supreme Court’s Obamacare case
Vox
Caring for other physicians as patients
KevinMD
Tiny Antibody Component Highly Effective Against COVID-19
UPMC.com
Capitalizing on Telehealth’s Potential
BDO
How Price Transparency Can Improve the American Healthcare System
Inside Sources
Here’s How Non-Profit Hospitals Weathered the First Half of 2020
Healthcare Dive
Hospital Could Be Facing Lower Volumes for Awhile
Fierce Healthcare
Doctors Find Possible Case of COVID-19 Reinfection in U.S.
CNN
Physician Compensation Models in a Post COVID-19 Landscape
BDO
OIG Offers Advisory Opinions on COVID-19-Related Arrangements, But …
Vitale Health Law
Trump Announces Plasma Treatment Authorized for COVID-19
ABC News
Task Force Eyes Quick Action on Nursing Home Visits
News Service of Florida via Health News Florida
Employers must take bold action to address the current mental health crisis
WillisTowersWatson.com
FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization to Yale School of Public Health for SalivaDirect
FDA.gov
Fauci Says Voting In-Person Is as Safe as Going to the Grocery Store
Business Insider
Upcoding: How Common Is It?
The Incidental Economist
Rare Heart Condition Threatens College Football Season
ESPN
Moderna’s clinical trial numbers show there’s ‘no way’ Trump can have a vaccine by Election Day
CNN
Common cold viruses can spark response against the coronavirus, San Diego scientists report
San Diego Union Tribune
Teladoc-Livongo: Is the first digital health megadeal ‘outrageous’ or a starter gun for virtual care M&A?
Healthcare Dive
Eli Lilly starts late-stage study of coronavirus drug in nursing homes
Reuters via U.S. News & World Report
What Seniors Can Expect as Their New Normal in a Post-Vaccine World
KHN
Weeks where decades happen: Telehealth 6 months into COVID-19
Healthcare Dive
CMS: Audits to Return in August
Vitale Health Law
The first Phase 3 coronavirus vaccine trial in the US is expected to begin next week. Here’s how the vaccine works
CNN
Italy’s Giglio Island sees zero residents with coronavirus: ‘Nobody is sick’
Fox Business
Six Months in: What Will the New Normal Look Like in Hospitals?
Healthcare Dive
Florida Healthcare Workers Feeling Strain of Coronavirus Surge
Health News Florida
Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine appears safe and induces immune response, early results suggest, but more research is needed
CNN
Coronavirus death rate: what it is, what it isn’t and why US can expect it to rise
The Guardian
Moderna Fires Up Covid Vaccine Race with Promising Early Results
Bloomberg
Pharma giant Novartis settles FCA claims
Vitale Health Law
Judge Vacates CMS Rule Forcing ACA Insurers to Bill Separately for Abortions
Fierce Healthcare
The Great Reopening Derailed
CNN
Scientists Hoped Summer Temperatures Would Tamp Down COVID Cased. What Happened?
WSJ via Fox News
Walgreens all in on primary care
CNBC
Miami-Dade to shut down restaurants again as Florida’s Covid-19 hospitalizations surge
CNN
Regeneron COVID-19 treatment enters final stage trials
Yahoo! News
Healthcare sector added 358K jobs, hospitals had first gains in 2 months
Healthcare Dive
Among Those Disrupted By COVID-19: The Nation’s Newest Doctors
KHN
At least 21 states pause reopening or take new steps to limit the spread of COVID-19
USA Today
Gilead Sets Price for COVID Drug
Healthcare Dive
Florida, Texas and Arizona Are New COVID Epicenters
Washington Post
