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The National Academy of Medicine today launched Resource Compendium for Health Care Worker Well-Being, which highlights tools that are ready to be deployed and strategies to address systems issues related to health care workers’ burnout.
The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration Dec.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dec.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dec.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Dec. 28 released guidance on how health care workers can receive expedited renewal of their Employment Authorization Document.
The AHA Dec. 29 sent a letter to UnitedHealthcare expressing concern over the carrier’s decision to change its coverage criteria for emergency-level care, as well as requesting that the plan rescind this new policy. UHC will begin reviewing claims starting Jan. 1 for emergency services to evaluate…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dec.
The Department of Health and Human Services through Sept. 30 has reduced by more than 75% its backlog of Medicare appeals at the Administrative Law Judge level, according to a status report the agency provided Dec. 21, 2021 to a federal court. “By the end of the fourth quarter of 2021, a total…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released two additional resources to help facilities and providers implement provisions of the No Surprises Act that go into effect Jan. 1, 2022.
In a new report from the Society for Health Care Strategy & Market Development’s 2021 Thought Leader Forum, leaders from Novant Health, ProMedica and RWJBarnabas Health share their perspectives on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care transformation. SHSMD is an AHA professional…