With real-time data streaming in from highly specialized researchers in the U.S.
and abroad, NIH scientists became convinced that boosting the covid-19 vaccine
was needed to save lives, prompting t…
The number of pharmacies dispensing 340B discounted drugs soared to more than
31,000 this year. Drugmakers struck back by halting some discounts. Hospitals
say they are losing millions of dollars —…
Noble Health swept into two small Missouri towns promising to save their
hospitals. Instead, workers and vendors say it stopped paying bills and
government inspectors found it put patients at risk.…
A new federal rescue program that pays rural hospitals to shutter underused
inpatient units and focus solely on emergency rooms and outpatient care hasn’t
generated much interest yet.
The U.S. Labor Department investigates Noble Health after former employees of
its shuttered Missouri hospitals say the private equity-backed owner took money
from their paychecks and then failed to…
Two Missouri towns are without operating hospitals after private equity-backed
Noble Health left both facilities mired in debt, lawsuits, and federal
investigations. The hospitals’ new operator, Pl…
A months-long KHN examination of the system meant to bar fraudsters from
Medicaid, Medicare, and other federal health programs found gaping holes and
expansive gray areas through which banned indiv…
Congress’ $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package included a two-year extension of pandemic-era funding that helped telehealth services grow nationwide. But that cash bridge, embraced by those deliv…
Patients who depend upon special drugs to treat rare diseases are caught in the crossfire as drugmakers and the FDA battle over regulations that reward companies for developing treatments for relat…
Hospitals in New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma are among the first to apply for a new rural hospital payment model that shifts the focus of services away from overnight stays to outpatient and emerge…