Andor Health Appoints Healthcare Technology Industry Veteran Raj Toleti as Chairman and CEO

Apr 15, 2020 at 10:57 pm by pj

     Company also names two new senior executives and 12 healthcare industry and technology leaders to Andor’s new Strategic Advisory Board.... Read More

East Orlando Chamber of Commerce April 14 Marketing Healthcare Webinar

Apr 15, 2020 at 10:29 pm by pj

AMA and AHA Respond to Rise in Cyber Threats Exploiting the COVID-19 Pandemic

Apr 15, 2020 at 11:47 am by pj

New joint cybersecurity resource helps physicians and hospitals keep pace with malicious cyber activity CHICAGO - Responding to a spike in cyber threats that exploit telework.... Read More

CMS Increases Medicare Payment for High-Production Coronavirus Lab Tests

Apr 15, 2020 at 11:05 am by pj

  CMS helps expand testing capacity and monitoring for COVID-19 in nursing homes and other settings with high volume testing needs The Centers for Medicare & Medica.... Read More

BPC Calls for Comments on Policy Options to Fully Integrate Medicare and Medicaid Services for Chronically Ill

Apr 15, 2020 at 10:53 am by pj

  Washington, DC -  Today the Bipartisan Policy Center releases two white papers and calls for comments on policy options that address how federal an.... Read More

COPD as a Lung Stem Cell Disease

Apr 15, 2020 at 10:48 am by pj

 Single Cell Cloning Tells the Story of Abnormal Cells  Two internationally renowned stem cell experts have found an abundance of abnormal stem cells in the l.... Read More

With PPE Shortages Ongoing, AMA Urges FEMA to Act as Single National Source for Acquisition

Apr 14, 2020 at 11:54 pm by pj

  With ongoing, serious concern about the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) for physicians, frontline health care workers and laboratory workers handli.... Read More

The Travel Industry’s Response to the Global Pandemic

Apr 14, 2020 at 02:37 pm by pj

  By BRYCE MORRISON   More than twenty years ago, I ran a small shop onboard the USS San Jacinto. We had just completed six months at sea and the team had been wo.... Read More

AMA Announces Expedited Updates to CPT for COVID-19 Antibody Tests

Apr 14, 2020 at 02:30 pm by pj

CHICAGO - The American Medical Association (AMA) announced updates to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) that include two code additions intended to report wh.... Read More

FDA Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: Daily Roundup

Apr 14, 2020 at 02:20 pm by pj

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the following actions taken in its ongoing response effort to the COVID-19 pandemic: Given the anticipated increase in d.... Read More

Summary of Recent CMS Actions in Response to COVID-19

Apr 14, 2020 at 02:14 pm by pj

  Recent actions and guidance from CMS on COVID-19     Postponement of 2019 Benefit Year HHS-operated Risk Adjustment Data Validation To facilitate the nat.... Read More

In Shutting Out Threat, Seniors In Continuing Care Communities Feel Shut In

Apr 14, 2020 at 01:52 pm by pj

(Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)   Judith Graham, Kaiser Health News  With tight restrictions in place at their continuing care retirement community, Tom and.... Read More

Across the US, Pediatric Practices Struggle To Adapt And Survive Amid COVID-19

Apr 14, 2020 at 01:46 pm by pj

(Jenny Gold/KHN)   Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News  The silence was striking. On a normal day, the well-child waiting room at Berkeley Pediatrics bustles with chi.... Read More

How Do We Exit the Shutdown? Hire an Army Of Public Health Workers

Apr 14, 2020 at 01:40 pm by pj

(Hannah Norman/KHN Photo Illustration; NIAID)   Anna Maria Barry-Jester,  Kaiser Health News    Last month, facing the prospect of overwhelmed hospital.... Read More

‘Baby, I Can’t Breathe’: America’s First ER Doctor To Die In The Heat Of COVID-19 Battle

Apr 14, 2020 at 01:32 pm by pj

Frank Gabrin (Courtesy of Debra Vasalech Lyons)   Alastair Gee, The Guardian , Kaiser Health News At about 5 a.m. on March 19, a New York City ER physician named.... Read More

Billions Going To Hospitals Based On Medicare Billings, Not COVID-19

Apr 14, 2020 at 01:24 pm by pj

(Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)   Jay Hancock, Phil Galewitz, Elizabeth Lucas, Kaiser Health News    Probably few hospital systems need t.... Read More

Administration Announces Expanded Coverage for Essential Diagnostic Services Amid COVID-19

Apr 12, 2020 at 05:15 pm by pj

  Agencies Implement Legislation Guaranteeing Coverage of COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing, Including Antibody Testing, and Certain Related Services without Cost Sharing for.... Read More

CARES Act Provider Relief Fund Makes Immediate infusion of $30 Billion into Healthcare System

Apr 11, 2020 at 05:16 pm by pj

  On March 27, 2020, the President signed the bipartisan CARES Act that provides $100 billion in relief funds to hospitals and other healthcare providers on the.... Read More

Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate and Azithromycin, COVID-19 Drug Combo Treatment, Being Used by Parrish Medical Center

Apr 11, 2020 at 05:07 pm by pj

TITUSVILLE —Parrish Medical Center (PMC) has been treating coronavirus (COVID-19) patients with hydroxychloroquine since the start of the pandemic, for patients whose me.... Read More

PONTE HEALTH Elects Frank Ricci, Healthcare Realty & Development Services, Expanding Vertical Medical City - Orlando Team 

Apr 11, 2020 at 04:56 pm by pj

  ORLANDO — Ponte Health welcomes Frank Ricci in joining the Vertical Medical City real estate team.     Frank Ricci, a Winter.... Read More