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Neither safety net nor non-safety net hospitals showed improvements in the four infections analyzed, including after VBC was implemented.
Sutter Health cited "catastrophic" losses related to the coronavirus pandemic.
The rule would create a separate hospital payment category for CAR-T therapy, providing predictable payment rates for hospitals.
This isn't a second wave. It's a first wave that never really went away.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services needs help from Congress to make temporary flexibilities permanent.
The AHA is asking Congress for financial support with other relief in regulatory measures, the biggest being the use of telehealth.
Healthcare and social assistance has so far received $67.4 billion of the $521 billion distributed by the program.
The proposed changes would encourage the development of certain new and innovative home dialysis machines, CMS says.
Primary care practices are feeling the pressure on multiple fronts, from a lack of PPE to ever-thinning margins and fewer patients.
The insurer will provide an additional $6 million in financial support to independent primary care physicians and community health centers.