Arizona is bracing for the impact of climbing positive rates all over the country, with ADHS encouraging Arizona residents to stay the course in order to keep cases from drastically increasing.
On date of publication, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services COVID-19 data dashboard, there were 1,044 new cases reported...Arizona News
As the highly anticipated presidential election fast approaches, the campaigns are working overtime to tout their contrasting positions on a variety of important healthcare issues.
As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise across the country, no topic is more pressing than the pandemic. According to an NPR analysis relying on...Arizona News
The infection rate in Arizona is steadily on the upswing across the state. At time of publication the number of new cases reported for Oct. 21 are 975, bringing the state total to 233,912. There were 17 new deaths reported today, the total is now 5,854. Deaths reported today will be retroactively reassigned to date of death. With 10,720...National Reports & Surveys
The annual Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Survey is the benchmark survey of the cost and coverage of employer-sponsored health benefits in the United States. The 2020 survey included 1,765 interviews with non-federal public and private firms.
This annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in...National News
In the United States - which leads the world in COVID-19 deaths - the pandemic is altering the healthcare landscape.
National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Mark Farrah Associates and Kaiser Family Foundation recently collaborated on a multi-national analysis of healthcare spending. They found that in the U.S., which...Arizona News
On Thursday, President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19. Shortly after displaying symptoms, he was flown by helicopter to Walter Reed Medical Center for treatment. At Walter Reed, he received a so-called “antibody cocktail”, or a combination of two antibodies that work against the key protein of COVID-19, and the steroid...Arizona News
In the early months of the pandemic, the federal Medicare program and private health insurance companies wanted to encourage people to use alternatives to in-person care by talking with a doctor over video or by telephone. There has been a 3,200% spike in telemedicine visits in Arizona, according to AHIP.
Now, some Americans will...Arizona News
As the Affordable Care Act looks to go before a decidedly different Supreme Court, people across the country are grappling with the ripple effects of the law's potential demise.
While the elimination of the ACA would likely impact the vast majority of Americans in some way, it would hurt some more than others.
According to an...Arizona News
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing further regulations on how the quality of accountable care organizations (ACOs) are assessed and reported.
A coalition of healthcare organizations including the American Medical Association, America’s Essential Hospitals and the National Associations of ACOs penned...Arizona News
As the dust settles on the state’s first-wave peak, its impact on the hospital system which absorbed the bulk of Arizona's COVID-19 hit has come into focus.
Banner Health, which cared for about half of Arizonans hospitalized with COVID-19 at the pandemics peak here in July, struggled to staff hospitals as cases surged. The...Arizona News
This past week in Arizona, hospitals and schools are reopening as COVID-19 cases jump on the ADHS website. Marginalized communities in the state are drawing attention to structural inequalities that compounded the effects of the coronavirus and Governor Ducey is being targeted in a recall effort for the state's response to the...National News
The noble experiment of value-based care is being put on hold by some providers and the path toward risk has been stop and go at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. But studies and professional opinion suggests that it is beneficial to patients and clinics alike, and therefore might be worth saving.
According to Modern...Arizona News
The Commonwealth Fund’s Scorecard on State Health System Performance assesses all 50 states and the District of Columbia on 49 measures of access to healthcare, service use, costs and quality of care, health outcomes, and income-based healthcare disparities.
Prior to COVID-19’s emergence, the 2020 scorecard documents state-level...National News
Last Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a $2 billion relief fund for nursing homes. This follows $5 billion in support for nursing facilities dealing with the impacts of COVID-19, with other support training and safety improvements to follow.
Skilled nursing facilities, especially senior care...Arizona News
Located in Scottsdale, Arizona, CommonSpirit’s Lab alone will increase the country’s COVID-19 test capacity by up to 70,000 tests per week.
CommonSpirit, a national health system serving communities in 21 states, including Arizona, announced the opening of its Reference Lab, which will more than triple current COVID-19 testing...Arizona News
This week in Arizona, the state’s universities take precautions to keep students safe despite criticisms that they may not be doing enough. The state also sees lower numbers of COVID-19 infections and conditions in hospitals also seem to be trending down. The Governor and the Arizona Department of Health Services are recommending...Arizona News
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has strongly encouraged nursing homes to increase their efforts in controlling COVID-19 inside facilities after the number of residents infected reached a record high, and as new deaths have started rising once again.
Arizona is close to reopening nursing homes to visitors after...Arizona News
In April, Mayo Clinic was preparing for a $3 billion loss, but for the second quarter and the first six months of 2020, Mayo Clinic publicly reported its “Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Reports," which showed stronger than expected financial results, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the report, the non-profit Mayo...Health Related Groups
Banner Health's revenue increased year over year in the first six months of 2020, but ended the period with a net loss.
Like most other health systems, Banner faced serious volume losses this spring that started to recover in May as stay-at-home orders were lifted, but then COVID-19 cases in Arizona surged, where the majority of...Arizona News
On August 6, a report from from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association showed that Arizona led the nation in COVID-19 infections in children.
Arizona's rate of cases in children and young adults ages 19 and younger is 1,206.4 per 100,000. Most cases of COVID-19 in children are less severe than...