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Under pressure from organizations representing doctors, nurses, hospitals and other care providers, a handful of states are offering them protections from civil lawsuits over medical treatment.
In the first quarter of 2020, half the country鈥檚 economic devastation happened in the health care sector. Much of the slowdown came after hospitals postponed elective surgeries and as Americans skipped routine doctor鈥檚 office visits.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
This week on 鈥淎n Arm and a Leg,鈥 a front-line physician wonders if the health care industry鈥檚 drive for 鈥渆fficiency鈥 has robbed the system of surge capacity, leaving the nation underprepared to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The messaging from the White House coronavirus press briefings is becoming more confusing as President Donald Trump and his science advisers appear to not see eye to eye. Meanwhile, Congress is ready to approve more money to address both the health and economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. And the virus is taking an almost unimaginable toll on the nation鈥檚 nursing homes and putting strain on patients and health care providers with non-COVID ailments. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Jennifer Haberkorn of the Los Angeles Times and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more.
Former officials from the federal agency criticize OSHA for a slow and timid response to a 鈥渨orker safety crisis of monstrous proportions鈥 unfolding in hospitals, nursing homes.
Health care providers are seeing the effects of climate change in hospitals across the U.S. 鈥 and urging their peers to take action.
The military is called to action to battle the pandemic, even as the numbers of people infected among its ranks and veterans climb amid a shortage of doctors and nurses.
Across the U.S., pediatric practices that provide front-line care for the nation鈥檚 children are struggling to adjust to crashing revenues, terrified parents and a shortage of protective equipment 鈥 and all while being asked to care for young patients who could well be vectors for transmission without showing symptoms.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
As part of the federal response to the coronavirus crisis, Medicare is offering to give hospitals and doctors accelerated payments.
Lack of protective gear and fears about all the unknown aspects of COVID-19 are parts of the mosaic of stress facing doctors and nurses on the front lines of the pandemic.
Frank Gabrin knew the stakes of his job. What he found unsettling was having to reuse personal protective gear while caring for coronavirus patients.
The prospect raises a grim dilemma: Should doctors take people off life support in order to save COVID-19 patients who might recover?
Emergency rule changes by the federal government and some insurers have made telemedicine a useful tool.
Doctors are making decisions about a patient鈥檚 recovery with an incomplete understanding of the disease caused by the coronavirus. Although federal officials have issued general guidelines, physicians said they can鈥檛 offer recovered patients who aren鈥檛 retested any guarantees about whether they could transmit the virus.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
Under pressure, the federal government announced it will let surgery centers, hotels and even college dorms serve as hospitals to treat an overflow of patients.
Revenue is way down for primary care, specialty physicians and some hospitals as patients avoid non-urgent visits. Practices small and large are doling out layoffs and furloughs to staff.
A coalition of anesthesiologists wants to repurpose the country's more than 5,000 surgery centers to serve as emergency overflow amid the coronavirus pandemic. The centers have trained medical staff largely sitting idle, anesthesia machines that could be turned into ventilators, and empty medical space. But obstacles such as federal payment rules, logistics and some skepticism are getting in the way.
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