The American Hospital Association has expressed concerns about violence against healthcare workers, telling U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in a letter this week that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the issue.

Jeff Francis, CFO and vice president of Finance for Methodist Health System in Omaha, Nebraska, worked with Amy Raymond, head of Revenue Cycle Operations at AKASA, for unified automation of the health system’s revenue cycle that tied into its Cerner EHR.

The Confidentiality Coalition and the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange has sent a letter to the secretaries of Commerce and Health and Human Services voicing concerns about the potential misuse of patient health information by unregulated third-party applications.

During the first 12 months of President Joe Biden’s administration, close to 6 million new consumers signed up for coverage through the federal marketplace during the open and special enrollment periods, according to new data published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That includes about 3 million people who signed up during the […]

Slightly more than 40% of family physicians were named in a malpractice lawsuit in 2021, and while that number is significant, it’s an eight percentage-point decrease from two years prior, according to new data published by Medscape.

The Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, has announced more than $413 million in Provider Relief Fund payments is going to more than 3,600 providers across the country. 

Moderna said it’s planning to submit a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to authorize a low-dose COVID-19 vaccine for children under 6 years old, part of a push to inoculate the 18 million American children under 5 who are not yet eligible for vaccination – the last group to await eligibility.