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Senate passes bill extending Medicare sequestration moratorium through end of 2021

The Senate passed by 90-2 vote a bill that, among other health care provisions, would eliminate the 2% across-the-board cut to all Medicare payments, known as sequestration, until the end of 2021.
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Senate Passes Bill That Extends Moratorium on 2% Medicare Sequester Cuts Through End of 2021

Summary of legislation passed by the Senate to extend the sequestration moratorium beyond April 1, 2021.

Primary Care—Behavioral Health Integration - Cambridge Health Alliance

Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), an academic community health system serving Cambridge, Somerville and Boston’s metro-north region, has been engaged in primary care-behavioral health integration for the last 30 years. However, the organization began implementing a formal system of integration based on the IMPACT (Improving Mood—Promoting Access to Collaborative Treatment) or Collaborative Care model, beginning with a pilot program at one clinic in fiscal year 2014 and then spreading the model throughout the CHA system.
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PeaceHealth Oregon West Network – Behavioral Health Integration

PeaceHealth Behavioral Health Services (BHS) is composed of a continuum of care that provides a range of services, including inpatient psychiatric care, partial hospitalization, transition services, telemental health, crisis services, outpatient psychiatry and counseling, research projects, primary care integration, young adult and first-episode psychosis-specific treatments.
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A Behavioral Intervention Team for Internal Medicine: Yale-New Haven Hospitals Proactive, Multi-disciplinary Psychiatric Consultation Service

Merlyn LaPaix, MSN, MBA, LNC, Director, Psychiatric Nursing, Stephen Merz, FACHE, Vice President & Executive Director, Behavioral Health, Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital; and William Sledge, M.D., George D and Esther S Gross Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, describe BIT: a proactive, multi-disciplinary psychiatric consultation service for internal medicine inpatients at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
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Integrating Behavioral and Physical Health: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Makes this Even More Important

As a result of the pandemic, many behavioral health hospitals and service lines have created COVID-19 + treatment programs, while some general hospitals are increasing screening and treatment for behavioral health disorders.
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Members In Action Case Study: Behavioral Health Suite In Ed Better Serves Patients

In February 2018, WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital set up an integrated behavioral health suite within its emergency department to better serve patients experiencing behavioral health emergencies.

FDA authorizes screening device for SARS-CoV-2 biomarkers

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization for the Tiger Tech COVID Plus Monitor, the first machine learning-based COVID-19

COVID-19 strains health care delivery, OIG reports

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reviewed front-line hospital administrators’ perspectives on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected capacity to care for patients