In an effort to handle the COVID-19 crisis that's showing signs of straining healthcare resources and supplies, CMS issued a memo to providers instructing them to delay elective...
According to news articles posted by the American Academy of PAs, both Maine and Iowa have passed legislation allowing physician assistants (PA) to practice more freely in the fight against the new coronavirus (COVID-19), effectively removing administrative burdens that can delay the provision...
In response to the new coronavirus (COVID-19), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced exceptions and extensions for upcoming measure reporting and data submission deadlines for those clinicians and providers participating in Medicare quality reporting programs.
Some health systems are offering virtual screening for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.Benefits of telemedicine screening for COVID-19 include convenience for patients and safely assessing patients in their home.
Requirements that physicians and other healthcare professionals hold licenses in the state in which they provide services have been temporarily waived by the federal government. Yesterday, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar II...
You’ll find immediate opportunity to provide virtual visits to patients enrolled in Medicare plans as CMS seeks to facilitate screening and treatment of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases through telehealth services.
Last week, a lawsuit was filed against Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in West Virginia after several patients died of suspicious means in the same time frame. The family of Felix K. McDermott, who was admitted to the hospital on April 6, 2018 and died on April 9, 2018, alleged that the...
Yale New Haven Hospital's Late Career Practitioner Policy, which features an assessment of whether clinicians 70 and older are fit to practice medicine independently, has been challenged in federal court.
Like the general population, the proportion of the country's physician workforce...
Most of the bylaws we all operate under are essentially decades old so you're not alone in that regard. However, it is important to review your bylaws annually to make sure they are up to date and still applicable. If a "wholesale review" has not been done in the past five years or more, now is...
In managed care credentialing, delegation is defined as a formal process by which an organization gives another entity the authority and responsibility to perform certain functions on its behalf through a contractual arrangement. For health plans that wish to delegate components of its...