Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a second round of regulatory waivers and rule changes built to add flexibility to the United States’ healthcare system as many parts of America begin to reopen. Through these changes, CMS aims to ensure that states can...
As employers begin looking beyond the immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and start thinking of bringing people back to work, they will be wise to realize the new virus means permanent changes related to their obligation to provide a safe workplace.
As the novel coronavirus remains a threat across the globe, healthcare organizations should brush up on procedures for handling and sharing protected health information (PHI) during the outbreak of an infectious disease.
One of the recent 1135 waivers issued by CMS due to the COVID-19 pandemic allows for hospitals to screen patients at a location offsite from the hospital’s campus to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Under normal circumstances, this would be a violation of the Emergency Treatment & Labor Act (...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 30, Issue 4
The role of a physician assistant (PA) has historically been one of a “dependent practitioner” requiring close physician supervision, which included co-signatures, chart review requirements, co-locating physicians on-site where PAs deliver care, and limiting a PA’s scope of practice. The trend...
