UnitedHealth will help HHS distribute $30B in hospital aid
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) HHS tapped UnitedHealth Group to quickly disperse an initial $30 billion in emergency federal
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Month: April 2020
Yale teams up with Amazon to train 1 million volunteer healthcare workers online
(By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review) Amazon Web Services and the Yale School of Public Health are partnering with nonprofit
Read MoreVA Boost Protections for Veterans with help from the CARES Act
Although the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act or CARES Act is best known as a law providing $2.2
Read MoreTo ‘Keep The Lights On,’ Doctors And Hospitals Ask For Advance Medicare Payments
(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News) Darrin Menard, a family physician in Lafayette, Louisiana, has spent the past month
Read MoreCDC Director: ‘Very Aggressive’ Contact Tracing Needed For U.S. To Return To Normal
(By Selena Simmons-Duffin and Rob Stein for NPR) It’s the question on everyone’s minds: What will it take for us to come
Read MoreHospital costs to treat uninsured COVID-19 patients could exceed $41B, study finds
(By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review) More than 40 percent of the $100 billion earmarked for hospitals from the $2.2
Read MoreWomen can reduce their stroke risk with midlife lifestyle changes
The results of the National Institutes of Health funded study found while women may be at a greater risk of
Read MoreIs there a difference between a Medicare Supplement plan and Medicare Advantage PPO plan?
Are you about to turn 65 and being bombarded by Medicare marketing material regarding different types of Medicare pans? Are
Read MoreSEC Suspends Trading Of Company That Sold ‘At-Home’ COVID-19 Tests
(By Tom Dreisbach for NPR) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has temporarily suspended trading of shares of Wellness Matrix Group,
Read MoreWhat Does Recovery From COVID-19 Look Like? It Depends. A Pulmonologist Explains.
(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) Reports of recovery from serious illness caused by the coronavirus have been trickling
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