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| | | | Friday, July 31, 2020 |  | Friday, July 31, 2020 | | | | | | | | Subscription Required | | | | | | A federal appeals court revived an HHS policy that would cut Medicare outpatient drug payments by 28.5% at 340B hospitals. | | | Read More > | | | | | | | | | | | | Health experts say test results that come back after two or three days are nearly worthless, because by then the window for tracing the person's contacts to prevent additional infections has essentially closed. | | | Read More > | | | | | | | | Subscription Required | | | | | | The Boston hospital is participating in Moderna's trial for a COVID-19 vaccine. | | | Read More > | | | | | | | | Subscription Required | | | | | | There are more unknowns than knowns as the first COVID-19 vaccine trials get underway. Science—not the hype propagated by manufacturers to boost their stock price—will determine the impact of any vaccine that wins FDA approval. | | | Read More > | | | | | | | | The House of Representatives has passed an amendment to reverse the long-time funding ban on HHS developing a national patient identifier as part of its $1.3 trillion appropriations package. It’s the second year in a row the House has voted to overturn the ban; last year, the Senate did not follow suit. | | | | | | | | A Chicago woman who last month became the nation's first COVID-19 patient to undergo a double lung transplant said Thursday that she woke up days later, unaware about the surgery and unable to "recognize my body." | | | Read More > | | | | | | | | | | | | Appearing before a House panel investigating the nation's response to the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci expressed "cautious" optimism that a vaccine would be available, particularly by next year. | | | Read More > | | | | | | | | | | | | Some experts wonder whether the apparent caseload improvements will endure. It's also not clear when deaths will start coming down. | | | Read More > | | | | | | | | | | | | Live updates from Modern Healthcare on the coronavirus outbreak and how COVID-19 is affecting the healthcare industry. | | | Read More > | | | | | | | | 
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