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Hospitals can transfer patients who are COVID-negative to post-acute care facilities without advanced prior authorization approval, AHIP's Board of Directors says.

Cleveland Clinic will have ultimate governing authority, and will maintain services at the facility for at least 10 years.

Communication, planning and the right technologies are key when wildfires and hurricanes strike large systems and community medical groups alike.

The new facility, part of a broader $600 million acquisition and renovation strategy, comes as other health networks are also making similar investments.

Companies will partner to operate long-term acute care hospital, rehabilitation hospital in Newport News, Select Medical says.

In the past 20 years, the rate of hospitalization among seniors that is related to opioid overuse has quintupled.

SPOT facility, professionals offer safe place to ride out high, seek new start for treatment.

Consumers were urged to buy policies in their 50s, because premiums rose the longer they waited. About 4.8 million people were covered by long-term care policies in 2014. But insurers botched just about every aspect of the policies they sold in the early days of the industry, said Joseph Belth, a retired professor of insurance at Indiana University known as one of the insurance industry's toughest critics.

Evaluating capital expenditures is more complicated under a system focused on value, which seeks to eliminate waste and focuses on quality and outcomes rather than the number of procedures.

While a significant overhaul of Medicaid is long overdue, the recent proposals fail to address one of the program's fundamental problems: the trifurcated nature of the program struggles to serve three very different needs.