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Early Success in Texas: Collaborating with TX Community Pharmacists & Physicians to Protect Independent Pharmacists, Specialty Community Physicians, and Patients

On March 25th the Senate passed legislation extending the Medicare Part B sequestration moratorium through the remainder of 2021. This timely policy victory, if approved by the House in early April, will prevent the 2% reimbursement cuts that would have otherwise gone back into effect April 1, 2021, helping providers remain viable throughout the pandemic.

The embattled interim final rule looms over the new year.

After a punishing fall that left hospitals struggling, some Midwestern states are seeing a decline in new coronavirus cases.

The United States expanded its rollout of the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine to hundreds of additional distribution centers on Tuesday, inoculating thousands more healthcare workers in a mass immunization expected to reach the general public in the coming months.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized the first coronavirus test that people will be able to buy at a local store without a prescription and use for immediate results at home to find out if they're positive or negative.

A New York City intensive care unit nurse on Monday became the first person in the United States to receive a coronavirus vaccine, saying she felt “healing is coming,” as the nation’s COVID-19 death toll crossed a staggering 300,000 lives lost.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Monday unveiled its $908 billion coronavirus relief package as Congress faces a time crunch to pass more aid.

A $908 billion bipartisan COVID-19 relief plan set to be introduced in the U.S. Congress as early as Monday will be split into two packages in a bid to win approval, a person briefed on the matter said.

Cargo planes and trucks with the first U.S. shipments of coronavirus vaccine fanned out from FedEx and UPS hubs in Tennessee and Kentucky on Sunday en route to distribution points around the country, launching an immunization project of unprecedented scope and complexity.