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By Sanwar Ali: The Comprehensive Guide to Navigating the H-1B Visa Lottery Process The H-1B visa is useful for skilled professionals worldwide with a job offer to gain entry to the United States. The non-immigrant work visa, the H-1B allows U.S. employers to engage skilled foreign workers in specialty occupations. Securing an H-1B visa, however, is not a straightforward

On November 2, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") released the calendar year ("CY") 2024 Hospital Outpatient Prospective...

Hospital chains are unfairly profiting off a program meant to help low-income patients afford their medicines. If policymakers don’t reform this system soon, I worry that many of the marginalized

State efforts to address the 340B Drug Program continue to ramp up in 2024. Early this January, Kentucky Senator Stephen Meredith introduced Senate Bill 27 ("SB-27"), which intends to...

St. John's Episcopal Hospital unveiled its new ambulatory clinic on Monday that is located inside its four-story clinical learning center at 19-09 Plainview

In November 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule, “Medicare Program; Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System: Remedy for the...

Editor’s Note: This is the first of several question and answer articles that are planned in the coming weeks with local officials. We asked some local officials to look back

Facing ongoing concerns about rural hospital closures, Capitol Hill lawmakers have introduced a spate of proposals to fix a federal program created to keep lifesaving services in small towns nationwide.

Current billing practices do not adequately meet the needs of consumers, providers or payers. While there is no magic wand, reinventing billing processes in the US will require measures that strengthen consumer protection, and continued policy change towards fairer drug pricing and increased price transparency of provider service costs.

Looking back at 2023, many of the employment-based immigration changes proposed and implemented by various U.S. government agencies focused on increasing efficiency and alleviating...