Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
During the pandemic, health systems were pushed to transform their digital strategies quickly to meet the needs of their patients and communities.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nov. 25 announced several flexibilities aimed at allowing health care services to be provided outside of a hospital setting in response to the surging COVID-19 pandemic.
Congress is back in Washington, D.C., and sprinting to the finish line to complete its end-of-the-year work during the 鈥渓ame-duck鈥 session. Funding for the federal government, as well as other key health care provisions, are set to expire Dec. 11.
Congress is back in Washington, D.C., and sprinting to the finish line to complete its end-of-the-year work during the 鈥渓ame-duck鈥 session. Funding for the federal government, as well as other key health care provisions, are set to expire Dec. 11.
In a study of 156 front-line hospital workers who tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies, 94% had lower antibody levels 60 days later, including 28% whose antibodies fell below the threshold for a positive test result, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
Over the next several months, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases expects to enroll up to 1,500 adult COVID-19 hospital patients who require supplemental oxygen in a global clinical trial that aims to determine whether baricitinib or dexamethasone is more effective at鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has assigned Medicare Severity-Diagnosis-Related Groups to six new ICD-10 diagnosis codes for reporting conditions related to COVID-19 on medical claims effective Jan. 1.
The Department of Health and Human Services seeks comments for 30 days from health care providers and other stakeholders on the need to make permanent any regulatory flexibilities the agency has implemented in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
As urged by the AHA, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services gave hospitals facing a surge in COVID-19 patients expanded flexibility to care for Medicare patients outside their walls.