Nineteen provider organizations asked Congressional leaders to lower some Quality Payment Program requirements. The letter, sent on Thursday, claims many clinicians can’t meet key thresholds in the Quality Payment Program going into effect Jan. 1, 2021, and will drop out of the program as a result. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015,
Hospitals across the country are ramping up their efforts to figure out how to store, track and administer coronavirus vaccine doses following the recent news that an effective vaccine could be on its way within weeks or months. Hospitals will play a key role once a vaccine receives an emergency use authorization from the FDA,
The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a pilot program with five states to introduce the rapid, point-of-care Covid-19 test, using the same diagnostics the National Basketball Association employed to finish its season, the agency announced Thursday. The pilot program — adopted by Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, Texas and Alaska — is expected
A federal judge in California on Tuesday overturned a federal rule that prohibited home health workers from using Medicaid payments to pay for their union dues. The final HHS rule has been in effect since 2019 and overturned a 2014 rule specifically allowing Medicaid payments to be diverted from providers to third parties for expenses
Several COVID-19 vaccines are now in phase 3 trials, and $10 billion in government money has been invested in the research, development, manufacturing, and distribution of vaccines. As part of this effort, the federal government has paid in advance for hundreds of millions of doses of multiple COVID-19 vaccines and, in some cases, has the
After nine months of the public health emergency, a major breakthrough took place last week when Pfizer announced that one of its experimental COVID-19 vaccines was more than 90% effective in trials. Similarly promising results from a Moderna vaccine soon followed. Both vaccines still need to be authorized for emergency use by the U.S. Food
The launch of Amazon Pharmacy on Tuesday sent shockwaves through the pharmacy pipeline, with industry observers speculating that the shipping giant’s latest move would spur major competition across the sector. Above all else, Amazon’s new service — which lets customers buy prescription drugs online and have them delivered — further centralizes the home as a
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) participates in a news conference with other Democratic Senators at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, October 20, 2020. Erin Scott | Reuters Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to clarify and revise its estimates for the risk posed to communities of color by
With hopes that a COVID-19 vaccine or vaccines will be proven safe and effective soon, state and local public health authorities will play a critical role in ensuring the efficient distribution and administration of the vaccine. To assess the readiness of these local governments to take on these responsibilities, KFF reviewed the preliminary vaccine distribution
Virtual tools have quickly turned into the preferred method of training for in-home caregivers since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency. That trend will likely continue beyond 2020 as well. That’s according to a new survey conducted by Medflyt, a HIPAA-compliant web-based workforce management platform for home care agencies. The Forest Hills, New
As the United States braces for a bleak winter, hospital systems across the country are ramping up their efforts to develop AI systems to predict how likely their Covid-19 patients are to fall severely ill or even die. Yet most of the efforts are being developed in siloes and trained on limited datasets, raising crucial
Medtronic this week continued its expansion into the artificial-intelligence surgery space, a push it’s mainly pursued through acquisitions. The newly acquired company, Medicrea, uses AI to ease pre-operative planning and tailor implants for spine surgeries. It marks Medtronic’s seventh acquisition this year. The purchase is part of a strategy to drive revenue growth through so-called
Dive Brief: After years of speculation, Amazon finally announced Tuesday that it will sell and deliver prescription drugs on its online platform, Amazon Pharmacy. When paying without insurance, Prime members will be eligible for up to 80% off for generic drugs and 40% off brand-name medicines. The stocks of CVS Health and Walgreens took
During the COVID-19 crisis, senior living communities and long-term care facilities have sometimes been wary about letting outsiders onto their premises, including home health and hospice clinicians. That has repeatedly been a major challenge and point of concern for home health providers over the past several months, at times even leading to significant dips in
In a Tuesday evening interview on “The News with Shepard Smith,” President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus advisory board member Michael Osterholm emphasized that Americans would receive government support in the case of a shutdown. “If we’re going to ask anyone in America, whether it’s an individual or company, to close down or to lose a job
As COVID-19 hotspots spring up across the country, hospitals must once again grapple with how to take care of those patients while keeping other services open safely. It’s a repeat of what facilities went through in the pandemic’s early days on U.S. shores this spring as hospitals struggle to secure enough staff and equipment. Then,
A vasectomy can benefit both men and women who no longer want to have children.(Photo by Vera Arsic via Pexels.com) Vasectomy is a form of birth control for men that is becoming more popular over time. It is the most common non-diagnostic operation that urologists in the U.S perform.[1] Approximately half a million men undergo
Home health providers continue to make serious progress in reducing improper payments under fee-for-service Medicare, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Monday. Since 2016, improper payments to home health providers have dropped by an estimated $5.9 billion, according to CMS. All improper payments in fee-for-service Medicare are down by an estimated
Weekly COVID-19 cases in nursing homes have eclipsed earlier pandemic peaks as cases across the U.S. climb, according to a new report by the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living, which represents nursing homes and assisted living communities. Weekly new cases in the U.S. rose 140% to 572,613,527 in the U.S.
Dive Brief: A majority of providers said patient health has noticeably worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic due to delayed or inaccessible care, according to a new survey from the Larry A. Green Center and the Primary Care Collaborative. The clinicians said they are also confronting their own problems, particularly with the supply chain. More than
AccentCare Inc. and Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care are merging. Dallas-based AccentCare — owned by global private equity firm Advent International — is among the five largest home health providers in the country, according to industry data. The Rosemont, Illinois-based Seasons holds the same distinction in the U.S. hospice market. “Accentcare is doing very, very
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