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Byline: Robert King More than 800 hospitals are urging the Biden administration to appeal a federal court ruling that drugmakers have the power to restrict sales of 340B-discounted drugs to [...]

Byline: Robert King Hospital industry groups are pushing back against a proposal to jack up fines for health systems that don't publish their prices, arguing that facilities are putting all [...]

Byline: Robert King The Biden administration is moving to require all Medicare and Medicaid facilities to vaccinate their workforce, expanding a mandate already applied to nursing home staff. The Centers [...]

Byline: Robert King The Department of Health and Human Services aims to roll out new requirements for hospitals and health systems to cut greenhouse gas emissions and could potentially levy [...]

Byline: Robert King The American Hospital Association (AHA) wants the Biden administration to withdraw a COVID-19 emergency protection standard because it believes hospitals are already doing enough to protect front-line [...]

Byline: Robert King A federal appeals court has shot down several hospitals' latest bid to get higher Medicare payments for high-cost patients. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District [...]

Byline: Robert King The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is giving providers another 30 days to comment on a new COVID-19 emergency protection standard but does not offer them [...]

Byline: Robert King The Supreme Court agreed to hear a major dispute between the hospital industry and the federal government over cuts to 340B hospitals. The court agreed to hear [...]

Byline: Robert King Hospital groups are demanding that President Joe Biden and Congress stay away from diverting unspent COVID-19 relief funds to help pay for a bipartisan infrastructure package. The [...]

Byline: Robert King New legislation aims to raise Medicare reimbursement levels for rural hospitals in an attempt to help rebuild facilities hit hard financially by the COVID-19 pandemic. The bipartisan [...]

Byline: Robert King The American Hospital Association (AHA) is imploring the Biden administration to give some hospitals more time to spend their relief dollars ahead of a June 30 deadline. [...]

Byline: Robert King The Biden administration issued a long-awaited new workplace standard aimed at protecting front-line healthcare workers from contracting COVID-19. The emergency temporary standard, released Thursday by the Occupational [...]

Byline: Robert King A collection of hospital groups is pressing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to distribute the remainder of a $178 billion provider relief fund and [...]

Byline: Robert King Do not expect the Biden administration to pull away from price transparency even though the administration wants to pull a requirement for hospitals to post Medicare Advantage [...]

Byline: Robert King The Biden administration is proposing to repeal a Trump-era requirement for hospitals to post their privately negotiated Medicare Advantage rates in their Medicare cost reports. The Centers [...]

Byline: Robert King Price transparency made a cameo at the Oscars on Sunday night as an advocacy group launched a new campaign aimed at helping consumers understand a rule that [...]

Byline: Robert King While hospitals post a mixed record on complying with a major price transparency rule, the Biden administration has not announced how they are going to keep facilities [...]

Byline: Robert King Hospitals told a federal watchdog that they have having a difficult time balancing complex care needed for COVID-19 patients and jump-starting efforts to resume routine hospital care. [...]

Byline: Robert King Greater liquidity, a stable payer mix and higher-acuity patients helped major hospital chains end 2020 with massive profits despite a financial roller coaster caused by the pandemic. [...]

Byline: Robert King The hospital industry closed out last year with declining volumes and outpatient revenues due to record levels of COVID-19 hospitalizations, a new report from Kaufman Hall found. [...]

Byline: Robert King The American Hospital Association is imploring the Trump administration to make several moves aimed at improving the disparate rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which in some cases has [...]

Byline: Robert King Hospitals and health systems that have health plans or value-based care arrangements to cushion the financial fallout from COVID-19 will be better positioned moving into the next [...]

Byline: Robert King Cleveland Clinic signed an agreement with Sisters of Charity Health System to fully acquire Mercy Medical Center, a hospital based in southeastern Ohio. The transaction, announced Tuesday [...]

Byline: Robert King Hospitals and health system operating margins fell nearly 20% since the start of 2020 as COVID-19 continues to roil provider finances, according to a new report from [...]

Byline: Robert King Norton County Hospital is facing a major problem in recent days: Figuring out where to send patients that need a higher level of care. As larger hospitals [...]

Byline: Robert King Novartis scaled back an earlier move to halt sales of drugs discounted under the 340B program to contract pharmacies. The drugmaker announced Friday (https://secure.340bhealth.org/files/Novartis-Letter-10-30-20.pdf) that it will [...]

Byline: Robert King Hospital systems will not just have to pay higher costs for personal protective equipment and other medical supplies but also for public construction projects, a new analysis [...]

Byline: Robert King Several major hospital groups and systems are pushing for the Trump administration to halt a proposed expansion of certain physician-owned hospitals in an upcoming payment rule. Several [...]

Byline: Robert King In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, CommonSpirit Health found itself among the health systems fighting a crush of demand to find enough personal protective equipment [...]

Byline: Robert King For-profit hospitals are expected to see a financial decline over the next 12 to 18 months as federal relief funds that shored up revenue losses due to [...]

Byline: Robert King Safety net hospitals that participate in the 340B drug discount program generated $64.3 billion in total benefits to community programs and services tailored to help low-income patient [...]

Byline: Robert King The healthcare industry added 75,000 jobs last month, a decline compared with the 126,000 that were added in July, the latest federal jobs report shows. But there [...]

Byline: Robert King The Trump administration has folded eight of its existing healthcare comparison tools into a single website with the intention, they said, of becoming more user friendly. The [...]

Byline: Robert King The Trump administration finalized a rule that increases payment rates for general acute care hospitals by approximately 2.9% and boosted add-on payments for new technologies in the [...]

Byline: Robert King Patient volumes at hospitals have rebounded after major dips in March and April due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But new data shows that they are still below [...]

Byline: Robert King As the pandemic moves into its fourth month, a new survey of Premier members found 88% of hospitals and health systems are creating a stockpile of medications [...]

Byline: Robert King A group of bipartisan senators introduced legislation to ensure that a hospital doesn't fall out of the 340B drug discount program due to a rapid change in [...]

Byline: Robert King Hospitals and health systems could lose $120.5 billion from July to December of this year, or roughly $20 billion a month, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a [...]

Byline: Robert King A federal judge has ruled against a lawsuit brought by hospital groups that challenges the Trump administration's rule to require hospitals post charges they negotiate with payers. [...]

Byline: Robert King The COVID-19 pandemic is starting to reach rural areas as cases in several states start to rise with economies reopening. With that rise sparks new concerns about [...]

Byline: Robert King Like a lot of major health systems, CommonSpirit Health is making strides to reopen elective procedures cancelled due to COVID-19. Some facilities have already resumed some surgical [...]

Byline: Robert King Dignity Health received the most cash--$180 million--among private health systems and hospitals from an initial tranche of relief funding for COVID-19 divvied out over the last several [...]

Byline: Robert King The University of California's (UC's) hospital system has started to gradually resume elective procedures that have been canceled due to COVID-19. The five-hospital system is the latest [...]

Byline: Robert King Hospital groups largely cheered a raft of regulatory changes made by the Trump administration to expand telehealth and waive penalties for expanding capacity to fight the COVID-19 [...]

Byline: Robert King Hospital systems are taking the first steps toward reviving elective procedures that have been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but major concerns about safety and patient [...]

Byline: Robert King Some House lawmakers want to ensure safety net hospitals wouldn't lose eligibility to participate in the 340B drug discount program due to their response to COVID-19. Reps. [...]

Byline: Robert King Detroit Medical Center became the latest hospital to furlough workers amid a growing cash crisis facing healthcare facilities due to COVID-19. The hospital's CEO announced Wednesday that [...]

Byline: Robert King CommonSpirit Health has converted the cafes in several of its hospitals in Arizona and the Pacific Northwest into grocery stores to help out overwhelmed physicians and staff [...]