WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government outlined a sweeping plan Wednesday to make vaccines for COVID-19 available for fr...

TALLAHASSEE — Thousands of Florida workers, including people on the front lines battling the coronavirus pandemic, say the...

Today, the American Medical Association wrote to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urging them to work more clos...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly modified its coronavirus testing guidelines this week to exclude...

Through its clinical research subsidiary, DaVita Inc. has begun enrolling participants for two trials designed to investig...

As practices scrambled to implement telehealth so they could care for patients safely during the...

At the height of summer, temperatures climb to nearly 100 degrees most days in Pharr, a small city in South Texas. Nonethe...

Kayla Brim laughed when she learned  it could take 10 days  to get her COVID-19 test results back. “I thought, ‘...

Dive Brief: In-person doctor visits plummeted during the start of the COVID-19 crisis in the United States, but have reb...

Following our letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar urging HHS to update its SARS-CoV-2 diagnost...

Racked with anxiety, Lauren Shell needed to talk to her cancer doctor. But she lives at least an hour away and it was the...

The New York Times (8/4, Mervosh, Fernandez) reports that despite an increase in U.S. coronavirus testing, “many Ameri...

A second economic stimulus bill introduced in the U.S. Senate this week ( S. 4317 , the “Safeguarding America’s Frontlin...

By: Angie Stewart   Rising numbers of COVID-19 patients in U.S. hot spots could strain availability of criti...

Today, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are a...

Today (July 24 th ), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Adm...

On March 6, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) broadened access to Medicare telehealth services...

July 29, 2020 By: Jim Saunders TALLAHASSEE --- As school officials across Florida continue grappling with reop...

Should children return to school this fall? Amid the COVID-19 pandemic , it’s a question physicians—most notably pediatri...

( WEAR ) – A letter was sent to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis asking him to reconsider the order requiring brick and morta...

HHS extended the deadline for eligible Medicaid and CHIP physicians and organizations to submit information and apply...

TALLAHASSEE --- Twenty-one Republican governors sent a letter this week to congressional leaders arguing that businesses,...

You are invited to complete the Telehealth Impact Study Provider Questionnaire by clicking on the link below. The study ha...

The New York Times (7/14, Stolberg) reports the administration wants “hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Co...

CNN (7/14, Fox) reports, “The science shows face masks work both to protect the wearer and to protect others from coron...

The Florida Department of Health announced Thursday that it is sending $138 million in federal pandemic funds to county he...

Days after agreeing to waive rules that require hospitals to obtain prior authorization before transferring patients to lo...

By: Todd Zeiter Vice President of Underwriting, The Doctors Company   Updated June 4, 2020: As a compan...

The  AP   (7/7, Mulvihill, Fassett) reports that “the personal protective gear that was in dangerously sh...

WASHINGTON -- The Trump Administration will sponsor "surge" COVID-19 testing in three cities -- Jacksonville, Florida; Bat...

July 8, 2020 By:  Jim Turner News Service Florida   TALLAHASSEE --- President Donald Trum...

July 7, 2020 Christine Sexton News Service Florida   TALLAHASSEE --- More than 4,600 health-c...

July 2, 2020   Additional COVID Isolation Centers Available _______________________________________...

On June 24, CMS  announced  that physician practices can opt out of the 2020 MIPS program using the Extr...

With confirmed cases of Covid continuing to increase, we are hearing from more medical practices that are experiencing sta...