Pediatricians across the country are claiming the nation’s largest insurer is shortchanging them for administering COVID-19 vaccines, jeopardizing access to the main tool for stopping the virus’ spread. The American Academy of Pediatrics has fielded complaints from providers nationwide who are frustrated that UnitedHealth Group is paying about 50% of the federal rate for vaccine…
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As Covid-19 lockdowns propelled record ecommerce growth in the final months of 2020, a new kind of online retailer began to attract investors. A handful of ecommerce “aggregators”, led by Massachusetts-based Thrasio, had together raised $1bn by the end of the year to buy up the most successful independent merchants on Amazon’s marketplace. That was when a…
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services should collect data about telehealth use in home health to guide policymakers in setting reimbursement rates for providers, experts said during the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s September meeting on Friday. CMS adjusted how the Medicare program pays providers under the home health prospective payment system in 2020 after…
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The UK moved closer to giving Covid jabs to younger teenagers on Friday after the government’s vaccine advisory body ceded authority on the decision to the country’s top medical officers. Britain has become an international outlier among its peers in recent months in maintaining its position not to offer shots to all children aged 12…
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A senior University of Pittsburgh Medical Center surgeon allegedly billed the government for unnecessary surgeries and operations he didn’t perform and directly harmed patients, according to a federal false claims lawsuit filed Thursday. The Justice Department brought the suit against UPMC, University of Pittsburgh Physicians and Dr. James Luketich, a top surgeon at UPMC Presbyterian-Shadyside.…
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Alabama Governor Kay Ivey reallocated $12.3 million of CARES Act funding to help overwhelmed hospitals attract travel nurses, state authorities announced Friday. Hospitals across the country, particularly in the South, are struggling to keep up with COVID-19 surges among the unvaccinated. The latest influx of acute COVID-19 cases has exacerbated lingering staffing shortages, prompting calls…
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Games industry updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Games industry news. The writer, a former head of the Number 10 Policy Unit, is a Harvard senior fellow Is it really so extreme? China’s crackdown on video gaming by under-18s seems to signal another attempt by the communist…
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Coronavirus pandemic updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Coronavirus pandemic news. The White House wants to spend $65bn over the next 10 years to plan for future pandemics, including setting up a new office of pandemic preparedness at the heart of the US government. Officials said on…
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Ken Sutton Contributor Ken Sutton is CEO and co-founder of Yobe, a software company that uses edge-based AI to unlock the potential of voice technologies for modern brands. On average, men and women speak roughly 15,000 words per day. We call our friends and family, log into Zoom for meetings with our colleagues, discuss our…
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Technology sector updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Technology sector news. This article is an on-site version of our #techFT newsletter. Sign up here to get the complete newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday The eve of the Labor Day weekend in the US is becoming a…
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