A federal district court judge last week ruled HHS unlawfully cut Medicare Part B reimbursements for drugs purchased via the 340B program, siding with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and other hospital groups.
The doctor is being monitored at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia.
A partial government shutdown—which started Dec. 22, 2018, and affects some federal health care agencies—occurred after the House, the Senate, and President Trump could not come to an agreement on a bill to extend funding for the federal government.
At least 12 patients at NIH's hospital fell ill and three died after becoming infected with antibiotic-resistant Sphingomonas koreensis (S. koreensis) bacteria that lived in the hospital's water pipes, according to a study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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