“The scale of this is likely to grow over time as more people are laid off,” said Joshua Peck, who co-founded Get America Covered to promote insurance enrollment after serving as an Obama-era health official…
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The judge overseeing the Verity Health bankruptcy case is poised to allow Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s foundation to buy and reopen a shuttered Los Angeles hospital to treat COVID-19 patients. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Ernest Robles approved…
Hospitals also reported shortages of ventilators, IV poles, bed sheets, toilet paper, cleaning supplies and other basic equipment. They have not been able to count on shipments from the federal strategic stockpile, which have been…
The government’s website for the stockpile, which previously said it was “for use in a public health emergency severe enough to cause local supplies to run out,” was altered to align with Kushner’s remarks. It…
“The next two weeks are extraordinarily important,” Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, also acknowledged Saturday. Those bleak assessments came after the administration projected Tuesday that 100,000 to 240,000 Americans could die…
“It’s a bad decision optics-wise,” one administration official said in the immediate aftermath. “It politicizes people’s access to health services during a serious national health emergency.” Over the prior weeks, health officials charged with overseeing…
The models POLITICO examined could still change. Public health experts can’t account for how well people will follow social distancing measures, how many beds and ventilators a governor can acquire — or just plain luck….
White House coronavirus response coordinator Debbie Birx during Thursday’s daily coroanvirus briefing. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo Rapid point-of-care coronavirus tests will be used to support areas of the country with the least access to testing,…
Federal authorities have proposed a $611,000 fine for a Seattle-area nursing home connected to at least 40 coronavirus deaths. State regulators and the CMS conducted an inspection of the Life Care Center of Kirkland on…
Utah on Thursday suspended its Medicaid work requirement due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was the only remaining state with an active Section 1115 waiver imposing work requirements on Medicaid expansion enrollees as a condition…