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Registered UPMC travel nurses and surgical techs will make $85 and $63 an hour, respectively.

At a press conference on Friday, UPMC officials emphasized the benefits of vaccinations for younger kids. They were adamant that the real health risks come from people choosing not to get vaccinated.

Part of the reason that reliable data is hard to find is that the “official” or maximum cost for a medical service is rarely what ends up on the bill.

UPMC says in the lawsuit against CBIZ Inc. that it wouldn’t have acquired Altoona Regional Health System in 2013 had it known the hospital’s full liability.

Many so-called “long-hauler” patients also suffer from ongoing fatigue, depression and brain fog, as well as cardiac and neurological issues.

More than 200 people have been treated at the UPMC Post COVID-19 Recovery Clinic since it opened last year.

Western Pennsylvania’s two largest medical systems both say that despite the state’s new COVID vaccination guidelines, their ability to vaccinate patients is extremely finite.

The state’s largest health care system has been vaccinating non-clinical and non-patient facing staff, including those who work at home, employees say.