While providers strongly support the telehealth coverage increases in the proposed rule, they asked the agency to go further by putting the services that are now going to be covered until the end of 2023 on the permanent list.
The plaintiff discovered that “tens of thousands of children were assigned to [primary care providers] that had no relationship whatsoever to [Aetna],” the suit alleges.
The drop from March 2019 to March 2021 was largely offset, however, by coverage gains in programs like Medicaid.
More than 280,000 hospitalizations from COVID-19 between June and August could have been prevented by vaccination, researchers found.
Intermountain is the latest system to announce it’s putting non-emergency procedures back on hold at 13 of its hospitals, and expects the pause to last several weeks, CEO Marc Harrison said Friday.
AdvaMed said the repeal of the Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology rule is the wrong decision for patients. Analysts noted the reimbursement pathway could be resurrected in Cures 2.0 legislation.
Some providers have been anxiously waiting on additional disbursements from the provider relief fund, especially for the period of the pandemic that saw the highest hospitalization rates.
Marion Gruber and Philip Krause, two top FDA vaccine reviewers who are unexpectedly departing this fall, joined senior WHO officials in saying booster vaccine doses are not yet widely needed.
Other proposals would require air ambulances to disclose additional data to HHS and outline how CMS can enforce surprise billing protections if states fail to act.
It’s potentially troubling because people who are eligible for Medicare have a higher vaccination rate than the rest of the population. Humana’s report raises questions about what’s driving the uptick in hospitalizations among this cohort.