Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and 15 other state attorney generals have filed a complaint against HHS and CMS to block the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.
CMS first issued...
Most hospitals ended 2021 in a stronger financial position compared to the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. However, they are entering the third year of COVID-19 down compared to...
The Great Resignation and other employment challenges are hitting revenue cycle management, a new survey of hospital and health system leaders indicates.
The survey commissioned by healthcare...
Montana state leaders are calling on the Biden Administration to issue exemptions to a nationwide vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. Implementing the vaccine mandate in Montana could worsen access...
A bipartisan group of 195 Congress members wrote to the White House COVID-19 Response Team Coordinator Jeffrey Zient requesting an investigation into reports of alleged price gouging by nurse...
In 2021, healthcare employment experienced no significant growth. However, ambulatory care employment saw an increase in jobs exceeding pre-pandemic rates, an analysis from Altarum revealed...
A federal judge in Texas has dismissed the state’s challenge of CMS’ vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, paving the way for the federal agency to enforce the mandate across the...
CMS has issued interpretative guidance on its healthcare worker vaccine mandate following the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the mandate to be enforced while some states challenge it in...
As labor costs rise and labor shortages continue, hospital labor costs are skyrocketing.
According to a Definitive Healthcare report, average hospital contract labor expense rose to $4.59...
Healthcare delivery organizations could not hire as many nurses as they needed during the COVID-19 pandemic because of nursing workforce constraints, according to a new Health Affairs study.
The...
According to the Massachusetts Nursing Association (MNA), the longest nurses strike in Massachusetts history over staffing concerns came to a long-awaited end when St. Vincent Hospital nurses ratified...
Across the country, hospitals and health system finances are being strained by rising labor costs, global labor shortages, and dwindling revenue margins, according to a recent National Hospital...
According to an AMN Healthcare survey, 96 percent of healthcare facilities hired temporary health professionals in the last 12 months to combat the shortage of permanent healthcare workers.
The...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has allowed CMS to enforce the vaccine mandate specific to healthcare workers to resume in about half of the country. Although, the decision released on...
Major hospitals and health systems that previously implemented COVID-19 vaccine mandates have lifted requirements their staff get the jabs in order to work. Some of the organizations include HCA...
Declines in both healthcare employment and revenue because of the COVID-19 pandemic spell trouble for providers, a recent analysis by Peterson-KFF indicates.
In previous years, healthcare...
Physician compensation may hinge on your gender and where you practice, two studies published in the December 2021 edition of Health Affairs suggest.
One study analyzed data from over 80,000 full-time...
CMS has officially suspended the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers following two court orders to pause the interim final rule implementing the mandate from the Biden...
UPDATE 12/01/2021: Louisiana District Court Judge Terry Doughty has temporarily blocked the Biden Administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in more states. The...
Hospital expenses remain highly elevated compared to pre-pandemic levels as health systems and hospitals continue to face labor shortages and declining margins, according to the latest National...
