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AHA recognizes Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care winner, honorees
The AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity announced that Cone Health in Greensboro, N.C., is the recipient of the 2020 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award.
CMS delays releasing rule on physician self-referral law
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services extended its timeline for issuing a final rule modernizing the physician self-referral regulations until Aug. 31, 2021.
AHA podcast: Tackling the PPE crisis
During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is vital that hospitals and health systems are equipped with personal protective equipment to ensure the safety of their health care workers while providing care for patients.
NASEM offers strategies to encourage contact tracing participation
Partnering with trusted sources and offering relevant incentives may encourage individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 to respond to health department contact tracing efforts, according to a report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Societal Experts Action Network.
Nursing homes to receive N95 respirators from stockpile
The Defense Logistics Agency will begin distributing 1.5 million N95 respirators from the Strategic National Stockpile to about 3,330 nursing homes in the Medicare and Medicaid programs that have less than a three-day supply, the Department of Health and Human Services announced yesterday.
CMS releases COVID-19 training for nursing homes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its national training program to prevent and control COVID-19 in Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes. The training incorporates best practices and lessons learned from COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes and CMS inspections, with input from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts.
FEMA urged not to change COVID-19 reimbursable expenses
The National Governors Association and other organizations representing cities and states expressed concern that the Federal Emergency Management Agency may eliminate personal protective equipment and disinfectants as eligible reimbursable expenses under public assistance for COVID-19, citing recent communications from the agency.
AHA urges flexible approach to new CMS documentation requirement
AHA urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide flexibility regarding the agency’s new COVID-19 test documentation requirement for the diagnostic-related group add-on payment.