John Peter Smith Hospital in Tarrant County, Texas, has agreed to pay $3.3 million in order to settle allegations that it was in violation of the False Claims Act by upcoding certain claims....Read More »
Nearly one-third (32%) of healthcare leaders surveyed strongly agree that employee preference is the most important factor in developing their return-to-work plans, compared to 25% across all industries as reported by...Read More »
The suicides of more than 100 Black residents in Illinois last year has led locals to call for new prevention efforts focused on Black communities. In 2020, during the pandemic's first year,...Read More »
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officially approved the first COVID-19 vaccine, on Monday, August 23, according to a news release stating the approval of the Pfizer vaccine. The vaccine...Read More »
Most Americans believe nurses and healthcare aides are underpaid, according to a new study about the public's attitude toward healthcare and its workers,...Read More »
Private healthcare insurers who administer Medicare Advantage plans will have to repay overpayments they receive in spite of incorrect diagnoses, according to a Washington, D....Read More »
Natural language processing (NLP) can be used to sort through EHR data of COVID-19 patients and “map the relationships between complications, comorbidities, and outcomes” in the hospitalized patients, according to a study published by ...Read More »
