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CEO
City-Country Mortality Gap Widens Amid Persistent Holes in Rural Healthcare Access
Differences in healthcare resources could compromise the accessibility, quality, and affordability of care in rural areas.
CMO
What to Know About the Roiling Debate Over U.S. Maternal Mortality Rates
A new study challenged the accuracy of public health data on deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth ? and the...
CMO
Overdosing on Chemo: A Common Gene Test Could Save Hundreds of Lives Each Year
For patients who are deficient in an enzyme that metabolizes flourouracil, the treatment can be torturous or deadly.
Payer
ProgenyHealth 2024 Maternal & Infant Health Report Spotlights Payer Interventions
Health plan efforts featured among the 5 key trends, insights, and predictions that will mark the year.
Payer
Medicare Certifies Hospices in California Despite State Ban on New Licenses
The agency has rolled out sweeping changes to target end-of-life care providers that were billing for unneeded services, but some...
HLM Communities
How Lawmakers in Texas and Florida Undermine COVID Vaccination Efforts
The shift in health information trails rhetoric from Republican politicians who have reversed their positions on COVID vaccines.
CMO
Feds Hope to Cut Sepsis Deaths by Hitching Medicare Payments to Treatment Stats
A new Biden administration rule setting treatment metrics for sepsis has triggered pushback for its lack of flexibility.
CMO
Police Blame Some Deaths on 'Excited Delirium.' ER Docs Consider Pulling the Plug on the Term.
The theory of excited delirium exonerates police despite mounting opposition to the term among most prominent medical groups.
CMO
Expert: CMS Takes Significant Step to Improve Sepsis Care in 2024 IPPS Rule
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services make SEP-1 sepsis care bundle a pay-for-performance measure.
CMO
Excessive Drinking During the Pandemic Increased CA's Alcoholic Liver Disease Death Rates
The rate peaked at 13.2 deaths per 100,000 residents in 2021, nearly double the rate from two decades ago.
CMO
Inside the Preventable Deaths That Happened Within a Prominent Transplant Center
James Eason, MD, who earned acclaim by operating on Steve Jobs, led the transplant center named in his honor at...
CMO
Gun Violence Costs U.S. Healthcare $1B+ Annually
That figure does not include hundreds of millions of dollars spent for patients' months-long recovery costs.