After a brutal two months of significant revenue losses, hospitals saw a slight improvement in margins during May, according to the latest Flash Report from Kaufman Hall.

The American Hospital Association first made its plea in a letter to Health and Human Services leadership. 

A recent survey of 1,000 physicians released found that nearly one-quarter reported that these utilization-management techniques have led to adverse events for their patients. 

That’s according to a new analysis of care at one imaging department since Pennsylvania passed the “Patient Test Result Information Act" in 2018. 

As the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States continues to rise, the Trump administration is taking aim at the CDC as a possible scapegoat and reportedly weighing whether to launch an in-depth evaluation of the agency to find and highlight perceived missteps in the fight against the pandemic.

CMS has announced the formation of the Office of the Burden Reduction and Health Informatics, an organized effort to reduce regulatory and administrative burden and part of the agency’s Patients over Paperwork initiative.

The agency specifically mentions three big names in imaging staffing—Radiology Partners, Mednax and Envision Healthcare—which have all seen their credit ratings downgraded at least once since the pandemic’s start. 

Radiologists across the country had pushed for a 2020 offering of online testing. However, the Tucson, Arizona-based doc-certification group noted that it could not start with the transition until next year.