The Food and Drug Administration today authorized both Pfizer and Moderna to give a second booster dose of their COVID-19 vaccines to individuals 50 years of age and older and to those who are immunocompromised. The additional shot follows completion of a three-dose primary vaccination series at least four months after the first booster.

President Joe Biden’s proposed 2023 budget submitted to Congress gives the Department of Health and Human Services $127.3 billion in discretionary budget authority and $1.7 trillion in mandatory funding.  

There are several legislative proposals in Congress, some stalled and some nascent, that would propose a $35 per-month cap on what insured Americans would pay out-of-pocket for insulin – and this cap in costs would benefit about 25% of those on individual and small group markets, and about 20% of those in larger employer-sponsored plans.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit recently sided with United Behavioral Health in a decision reversing a lower court ruling ordering the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary to reprocess thousands of claims for mental health coverage. In 2019, plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit successfully won their case in district court that UBH breached […]

A federal appeals court has upheld the Federal Trade Commission’s preliminary injunction against Hackensack Meridian Health  from acquiring the Englewood Healthcare Foundation.

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.