Jeff Lagasse
This adds to the more than 800 federal emergency personnel dispatched to 24 states, tribes and territories since Thanksgiving.
In the absence of those declarations, the hospital group expects the challenges of the pandemic to be "exponentially more difficult" to overcome.
Lack of integration with Brown and the affiliated teaching hospitals restricts economic development in Rhode Island, report finds.
This continues to outpace previous years' enrollment, including a 21% increase in plan selections through December 15, 2021.
Hoag will become an independent entity, ending a 10-year affiliation that first showed strains during a 2020 lawsuit.
The goal is to incentivize insurers to cover these costs up-front and ensure patients don't need an order from their providers.
There are no test-out options and no exemptions, apart from medical exemptions, a move geared to protecting the health of a stretched-thin workforce.
The current results stand in contrast to recent studies that found most mergers do not improve quality or safety.
CEO says aggressive pricing from marketplace rivals has played a role in the new projections, shifting the focus to business-wide profitability.
CMS expects the changes to improve beneficiaries' experiences with MA and Part D, calling it a "higher standard" of benefits and health equity.