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The departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury announced today that Physio Solutions, LLC, a recently certified independent dispute resolution entity, is now available to adjudicate disputes submitted for the federal IDR process. The organization was added in September,…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has allocated 200 Medicare-funded residency slots to 99 teaching hospitals. The slots are the fifth allocation from 1,000 new residency positions authorized under Section 126 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. No more than 200 full…
A Gallup survey published Nov. 9 on patient comfort with artificial intelligence in care found that 56% of U.S. adults who visited a primary care provider in the past year are comfortable with AI making diagnosis or treatment decisions, as long as they can be changed or overridden by their provider…
Bill Gassen, president and CEO of Sanford Health and AHA chair-elect, will participate in a panel discussion during the 2026 Milken Institute Future of Health Summit, which is being held Nov. 11-13 in Washington, D.C. The panel will discuss ways to close gaps in healthcare access and explore what…
Erica Taylor, M.D., vice president of health equity and orthopedic surgeon at Duke Health, shares how the organization’s frontline liaison network is helping clinic teams implement social needs screening, connect patients with critical community resources, and make a lasting difference in the…
The Food and Drug Administration is seeking feedback on a discussion paper released Nov. 6 on the benefits and risks of robotic medical devices with autonomous or remote teleoperation capabilities.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Nov. 9 announced allocations for the second year of the Rural Health Transformation Program, which will award $10 billion annually to all states from fiscal year 2026 through FY 2030.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported Nov. 5 that an infant died of measles, marking the first measles-associated death in the state since 1990.
A study released Nov. 5 by the National Institutes of Health found that women with higher blood levels of two common per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have a higher risk of developing an aggressive form of breast cancer.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Nov. 5 proposed changes to Medicare’s Conditions of Participation and other administrative requirements that are intended to remove or revise obsolete, outdated and excessively burdensome regulations for hospitals and other healthcare providers.