Contract labor expenses for hospitals shot up 258% from 2019 to 2022, which is linked to long-standing labor shortages in the industry, according to data published by Syntellis and the American Hospital Association.

The Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule that went into effect in 2021 does nothing to help patients who want to know what they’ll be paying out-of-pocket for services, according to Seth Cohen, president of patient billing experience company Cedar.

A tech retailer is moving into the remote patient monitoring space. What are the details? We’ll suss out those details and more in this week’s Top Stories, including Microsoft and MITRE’s new collaboration on a cybersecurity tool, and hospital groups’ call to Congress to avoid Medicaid DSH cuts. For more news and features from Jeff […]

Dr. Manish Kohli, board member of Wings of Hope and chief digital health officer and global head of humanitarian programs at Securra Health, previews his HIMSS23 panel on how aviation delivers humanitarian aid.  

Weight Watchers, which now goes by the designation “WW,” is entering into the telehealth prescription drug space, having entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sequence for $132 million.  The subscription telehealth platform offers access to healthcare providers specializing in chronic weight management to connect patients with doctors who can prescribe weight-loss drugs.

Due to rising medical supply costs as well as the cost of drugs and labor, total expenses for Connecticut hospitals in 2022 were $3.5 billion higher than they were before the pandemic – a more dire predicament than that seen by hospitals nationwide, according to new findings from the Connecticut Hospital Association.

Patient and consumer advocacy organizations, including the Center for American Progress and the Legal Council for Health Justice, have sent letters to the IRS and Consumer Protection Bureau pushing the Biden administration to do more to protect Americans from medical bills and debt collectors.

In the wake of a “severe illness season,” Highmark Health is teaming with Kinsa to deploy its real-time illness insights and season forecast to predict healthcare utilization, recognize staffing needs and plan emergency department and ICU bed capacity when infectious diseases like COVID-19 and infl