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UPDATED 7 HOURS AGO
Lifelong Health and Kindred Healthcare close deal, form new company
Science Health, Which is expected to generate about $3.5 billion in annual revenue, independently operates 79 long- and short-term hospitals.
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PROVIDERS
10 HOURS AGO
Next Up Podcast: 2021 at a glance: Your personal year in review
What were Modern Healthcare's most important headlines of 2021? And what should healthcare leaders keep an eye on for 2022?
Modern Healthcare’s "Next Up" podcast is produced by MALCONTENT, INC. and hosted by CareContent’s CEO, Kadesha Thomas smith
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LEGAL
Leno Hill surgeons sue UnitedHealth, Aetna over reimbursements
New York surgeons claim the insurers owe them each hundred of thousands of dollars
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POLICY
UPDATED 13 HOURS AGO
California sets Feb. 1 deadline for healthcare worker boosters
California's roughly 2.5 million healthcare workers have until Feb. 1 to get a coronavirus vaccine booster shot or risk losing their jobs, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday.
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SAFETY & QUALITY
A DAY AGO
Omicron less likely to put you in the hospital, studies say
Two new British studies provide some early hints that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus may be milder than the delta version.
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MH MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE
HOSPITAL SYSTEMS
Conversation is over: Health systems are ready to act on inequity
Speakers at Modern Healthcare’s Dec. 9 virtual Social Determinants of Health Symposium concentrated on solutions to medical racism, disparities and dysfunction dating back centuries.
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LEGAL
High court to hold special session on vaccine requirements
The high court's announcement Wednesday that it will hear arguments in the cases Jan. 7 comes amid rising coronavirus cases and is an extraordinarily fast timeline. The court had not been scheduled to hear cases again until Jan. 10.
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POLITICS & POLICY
17 HOURS AGO
Build Back Better, telehealth top Congress's health agenda for 2022
Democrats will try to pass President Joe Biden's social spending agenda in 2022 after facing setbacks in December.
TRUMP and BIDEN
POLITICS & POLICY
17 HOURS AGO
Where Trump's last-minute healthcare regulations stand under Biden
President Joe Biden's administration rescinded some Trump-era policies, but others are still on the books.
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INSURANCE
18 HOURS AGO
More employers, unions shifting retirees from traditional Medicare to MA
In December, 5 million MA members came from group plans sponsored by unions or employers, with enrollment doubling over the past decade.
COVID booster shots
POLICY
Blanket booster drives risk prolonging the pandemic, WHO chief warns
The head of the World Health Organization warned that blanket booster programs in rich countries risk prolonging the world's battle with COVID-19 and said that “no country can boost its way out of the pandemic.”
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GOVERNMENT
How Chicago’s sewers are helping predict COVID outbreaks
State and local health departments are using wastewater to identify hotspots of the virus, detectable in human waste nearly from the onset of infection.
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PROVIDERS
Envision sued over role in California emergency departments
The American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group says Envision's contract with a hospital in Placenta, California violates the state's ban on the corporate practice of medicine.
COVID variant surge
SAFETY & QUALITY
Case drop may show South Africa’s omicron peak has passed
South Africa has been at the forefront of the omicron wave and the world is watching for any signs of how it may play out there to try to understand what may be in store.
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TECHNOLOGY
Photons v. protons: Health systems invest in new cancer treatments amid mixed evidence
More health systems are investing in proton therapy as the cost drops, despite mixed evidence about its efficacy.
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MH MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE
PEOPLE
The changing faces of ‘influence’
The list has gone from recognizing executives at mostly provider and payer organizations to including outside influencers and leaders at nontraditional companies.
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