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Byline: Rachel Cohrs The prospects for President-elect Joe Biden's healthcare agenda are rosier after Democrats won two Senate seats in a special election in Georgia. Democrats after Jan. 20 will [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs OVER THE PAST EIGHT MONTHS, providers have gained experience dealing with a limited ban on surprise billing. Those insights may prove useful when a broader ban takes [...]

Byline: Tara Bannow and Rachel Cohrs During his tenure as California's attorney general, Xavier Becerra has sought to revive competition in healthcare using lawsuits. As HHS chief, he'd have a [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs Facing a potentially divided government, Congress and the incoming Biden administration will have to table any ambitious and disruptive plans for health reform in exchange for more [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs Capturing the healthcare industry's mood following last week's Supreme Court hearing on the Affordable Care Act, Sean Marotta said the law's supporters 'should be feeling pretty good [...]

Byline: Michael Brady and Rachel Cohrs With leads in key battleground states, Joe Biden at deadline was on the cusp of winning the 270 electoral votes needed to become the [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs A greater share of hospitals' and nursing homes' political contributions have gone to Democrats in 2020 than in recent election cycles, according to campaign finance disclosures. Spending [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has been one of the hospital industry's fiercest advocates in Congress and may soon rise to one of the most powerful perches [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs The complex business structure of some private equity-backed dermatology groups allowed them to receive millions in COVID-19 relief funds intended for small businesses, federal disclosures reveal. Lawmakers [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs While the presidential race likely will be top of mind for voters, the November election will also decide legislative agendas in Congress and in the states. Down-ballot [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs As the fireworks displays dissipated, the muted fanfare of live-streamed party conventions left questions important to the healthcare industry unanswered heading into the presidential race's home stretch. [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs Gilead Sciences is factoring potential savings to hospitals into its pricing decision for a promising COVID-19 treatment, but hospitals and health policy experts say it's too early [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs When millions in federal COVID-19 relief dollars started rolling in, St. Charles Health System in Bend, Ore., quickly created a tiger team of administrators, accountants and revenue [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs Two months after Congress created a $100 billion fund to aid providers struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some organizations serving women, children and vulnerable populations still [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs States across the country are considering Medicaid cuts to shore up budget shortfalls caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and federal restrictions could mean the brunt of cuts [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs As both an employer and a healthcare provider, hospitals have two good reasons for wanting laid off employees to get federal assistance with premiums--to help their former [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs As infectious disease leaders of Boston-area hospitals gathered on a Zoom call the evening of May 5, Massachusetts General Hospital Chief of Infectious Diseases Dr. Rochelle Walensky [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs The coronavirus pandemic has ravaged primary-care practices and physicians are saying they may have to close or sell their practices without more financial relief. The pandemic has [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs HHS is sending out more than $40 billion in COVID-19 relief grants--including carve-outs for providers in rural areas and coronavirus hot spots--but there's concern that the funds [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs Provider groups got most of what they wanted in Congress' historic $2 trillion COVID-19 economic stimulus deal that includes billions of dollars to bolster the healthcare system, [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs The Trump administration has generally downplayed the need to have a replacement plan ready if courts strike down the Affordable Care Act. 'The litigation has a very [...]

Byline: Rachel Cohrs There's a lot at stake for Democratic presidential candidates on March 3 when 14 states and American Samoa hold their primaries. That's when 34% of the total [...]