The Center for Telehealth is dedicated to giving Mississippians access to much-needed patient care, whether from a primary care provider or a specialist.

For the second time in less than a month, a major medical company announces it’s setting up shot and adding hundreds of jobs in Southaven, Mississippi. Fresenius Medical Care broke ground on the massive Spectra Laboratories, which will provide a range of kidney treatment care.

Delbert Hosemann, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, this week sidestepped questions about endorsing Tate Reeves and criticized how the Legislature has been run

Hours after a federal judge ruled that the State of Mississippi’s mental-health system violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood told reporters that he “knew this was coming.”

“We have had options … They buried their heads in the sand,“ Hood said, but Reeves’ campaign countered "this blame game is just more partisan politics from a liberal Democrat.”

Mississippi’s 2019 gubernatorial ballot is now solidified and while the issues remain basically unchanged since the primaries, the framing for the Nov. 5 will be different.

State Republican Party officials worked the phones after last week’s runoff in an effort to get endorsements from Waller and his allies and to unify the GOP electorate ahead of the Nov. 5 general election against Attorney General Jim Hood.

State Treasurer Lynn Fitch and Jennifer Riley-Collins, her general election opponent, are vying to become the state’s first woman to hold attorney general position

The extremely contested Senate District 50 race will head to a re-election of split precincts.

Patients forced to drive 30 minutes or more to a nearby emergency department after a closure near them risk negative health outcomes, particularly when the next closest facility is considered a high-occupancy hospital, according to a new study in Health Affairs that examines more than 1.1 million patient encounters across 3,720 hospitals between 2001 and 2013.

Stakeholders from the healthcare and technology sectors — including players like the American Hospital Association, the American Physical Therapy Association and Verizon — submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission overwhelmingly supporting its rural telehealth pilot, with many advising broader eligibility requirements for healthcare providers. 

The new rule going into effect Nov. 4 will allow the CMS to revoke Medicare enrollment for individuals and organizations that work with other sanctioned entities.

Healthcare experts hoped that increased Medicare Advantage market share would drive down traditional, fee-for-service Medicare spending. New MedPAC research shows it probably won’t.

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