Jeff Lagasse
Both Oklahoma City hospitals serve patients recovering from strokes and other long-term illnesses or injuries.
It's a complicated specialty that provides a potential road map to broader savings across the healthcare ecosystem.
Strengthening the link between the ED and treatment offers an opportunity to combat the opioid epidemic.
Stays at the highest severity level are vulnerable to inappropriate billing practices, OIG says.
Given telehealth's popularity, executives see the acquisition as part of a broader long-term growth strategy.
The treatment uses two monoclonal antibodies, bamlanivimab and etesevimab, to treat nonhospitalized high-risk COVID-19 patients.
Social determinants of health become an important factor in determining whether certain populations are more vulnerable than others.
Prior authorizations in particular are a complex, time-consuming function that would be well served by technology.
Race and socioeconomic status have a profound impact on whether people contract the virus.
The vaccine, which is 66% effective overall in preventing illness, will be distributed in smaller numbers than previously thought.