Access to Behavioral Health
A U.S. district court judge Nov. 3 ordered United Behavioral Health, part of UnitedHealth Group, to reprocess close to 67,000 mental health and substance use disorder benefit claims denied over a six-year period.
The Drug Enforcement Administration published an interim final rule expanding access to medication-assisted treatment under the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act of 2018.
David Zaas, M.D., chief clinical officer for MUSC Health in South Carolina and CEO of its Charleston Division, talks with Nancy Foster, AHA vice president for quality and patient safety, about strategies and tools to address burnout as health care professionals continue to care for COVID-19鈥
The 黑料正能量 Association and Microsoft now offer a free, one-hour course, for continuing education credits, to guide health care teams through key considerations and specific actions for AI鈥檚 responsible and strategic implementation.
In 2019, the term 鈥渂urnout鈥 was added to the World Health Organization鈥檚 International Classification of Diseases (ICD). According to the ICD, burnout is a 鈥渟yndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.鈥
About Project TRANSFORM
Prisma health-Upstate, University of South Carolina School of Medicine-Greenville and Clemson University School of Nursing have developed Project TRANSFORM (Teaching Recovery-informed Addiction Care and Negating Stigma FOR Medical Professionals) to provide training for鈥
We know that prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, demand for health care workers and health care job openings were at record highs. We also know that the pandemic created pressure to quickly ramp up staffing levels and optimize surge capacity, even as the cancellation of non-emergent surgeries caused鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today released guidance on how it will implement an Aug. 25 interim final rule that makes collecting and reporting COVID-19 data a condition of participation (CoP) for hospitals that participate in Medicare.
Some health insurance reimbursement changes that helped fuel virtual care鈥檚 rapid rise during the early months of the pandemic are being eliminated. Health insurance giants UnitedHealthcare and Anthem are revising their telehealth reimbursement rules in ways that will increase patients鈥 out-of-鈥
Responding to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 physician fee schedule proposed rule for calendar year 2021, the AHA said it appreciates the agency鈥檚 effort to continue certain pandemic-era policies that have helped hospitals and health systems ensure access to care for patients鈥