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COVID-19
Sunday, June 15, 2025   (0 Comments - view/add)
Preview 2023 MIPS performance information before publicly posted or opt out: »
Physicians must review and act by June 25 Physicians can now preview their 2023 Merit-based Incentive Payment System...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Status of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates »
Statement on the Status of the OSHA COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing ETS Posted...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
Expanding Populations Eligible To Receive The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine »
November 5, 2021    Expanding Populations Eligible to Receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to Include P...
Thursday, September 9, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
COVID-19 Threat to Kidneys Drives Education Program by Kidney Patients and Doctors »
EXPERT COVID-19 CONTENT ON OPEN ACCESS AS DELTA SURGES COVID-19 Threat to Kidneys Drives Education Program b...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
COVID Emergency Orders Expire - What you need to know »
Executive order 20-52, issued on March 9, 2020 by Governor Ron DeSantis, expired on June 26, 2021. In this declaration...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
Governor’s Executive Orders and Impact on Business Operations »
This past Monday, May 3 rd , Governor DeSantis signed two Executive Orders that impact local restrictions and mandates p...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
PHE renewed for another 90 days »
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, announced that he has renewed the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency dec...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
Most Physicians Experienced Little Relief from Prior Authorization as COVID-19 Cases Soared ​ »
According to new survey results issued by the AMA today, most physicians experienced little relief from prior authorizatio...
Monday, January 4, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
RPA Priorities Addressed in COVID Relief/Stimulus Bill »
On December 21 Congress enacted the long-awaited COVID relief and economic stimulus bill to address the impact of the pand...
Monday, December 14, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Administrators: Patients with ESKD, care givers should be priority for COVID-19 vaccine »
Source: Healio The National Renal Administrators Association sent letters to CMS and the CDC urging the agencies to prior...
Monday, December 7, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Patients with ESKD, care givers should be priority for COVID-19 vaccine »
The National Renal Administrators Association sent letters to CMS and the CDC urging the agencies to prioritize issuance o...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
COVID-19 Vaccine »
Our organization continues to be engaged in the development of plans for the distribution of the COVID-19 Vaccine. ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
CMS Takes Steps to Ensure Medicare Beneficiaries Have Wide Access to COVID-19 Antibody Treatment »
MLN Connects® -- Special Edition - Tuesday, November 10, 2020 Coverage Available at No Cost to Beneficiaries Across V...
Friday, November 6, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
COVID-19 Vaccine: Find Out How to Prepare »
Get ready to administer the COVID-19 vaccine when it’s available. Read the  enrollment section  of our ...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Trump Administration Acts to Ensure Coverage of Life-Saving COVID-19 Vaccines & Therapeutics »
Under President Trump’s leadership, CMS is taking steps to ensure all Americans, including the nation’s seniors, have acce...
Monday, August 31, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Many COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claims Rejected »
TALLAHASSEE — Thousands of Florida workers, including people on the front lines battling the coronavirus pandemic, say the...
Thursday, August 27, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
AMA Urges FDA to Work More Closely With the Physician Community on Vaccine Transparency »
Today, the American Medical Association wrote to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urging them to work more clos...
Thursday, August 27, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
CDC Changes Coronavirus Testing Guidelines to Exclude Asymptomatic People »
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly  modified its coronavirus testing guidelines  this week t...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
DaVita Begins Clinical Trials to Better Understand COVID-19 in Patients with ESKD »
Through its clinical research subsidiary, DaVita Inc. has begun enrolling participants for two trials designed to investig...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Shift to Telemedicine Doesn’t Diminish Value of Team-Based Care »
As practices scrambled to implement telehealth so they could care for patients safely during the...
Thursday, August 20, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Yep, Masks And Protective Gear Are Still Hard To Get — Especially For Small Buyers »
At the height of summer, temperatures climb to nearly 100 degrees most days in Pharr, a small city in South Texas. Nonethe...
Thursday, August 20, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Research Indicates Coronavirus Patients May Experience Symptoms for Weeks after Diagnosis »
Kayla Brim laughed when she learned  it could take 10 days  to get her COVID-19 test results back. “I thought, ‘...
Thursday, August 20, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Patient-Provider Encounter Trends Have Stabilized but Still Significantly Lower than Before COVID-19 »
Dive Brief: In-person doctor visits plummeted during the start of the COVID-19 crisis in the United States, but have reb...
Thursday, August 20, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
AMA Provides Considerations for Physicians and General Public for SARS-CoV-2 Diagostic Testing »
Following our  letter  to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar urging HHS to update its SARS-Co...
Thursday, August 13, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Telemedicine shines during pandemic but will glow fade? »
Racked with anxiety, Lauren Shell needed to talk to her cancer doctor. But she lives at least an hour away and it was the...
Thursday, August 13, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Involving Residents Receiving Dialysis in a Nursing Home »
Summary What is already known about this topic? Residents of long-term care facilities have high COVID-19–associa...
Thursday, August 13, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Dialysis patients at U.S. nursing home had higher rate of COVID-19: CDC »
(Reuters) - Nursing home residents on kidney dialysis had roughly three times the rate of COVID-19 compared to those not r...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Survey: Many Americans still experience lengthy wait times for coronavirus test results »
The  New York Times  (8/4, Mervosh, Fernandez) reports that despite an increase in U.S. coronavirus testing,...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
CMS and CDC announce provider reimbursement available for counseling patients to self-isolate »
Today, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are a...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Senate stimulus bill introduced with COVID-19 liability protections »
A second economic stimulus bill introduced in the U.S. Senate this week ( S. 4317 , the “Safeguarding America’s Frontlin...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Non-hospital docs 'instrumental' to COVID-19 response amid staffing strains — 5 key insights »
By: Angie Stewart   Rising numbers of COVID-19 patients in U.S. hot spots could strain availability of critica...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Provider Relief Fund Distribution Update »
On July 24th, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administra...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
COVID-19: Correcting telehealth services billed with POS 02 »
On March 6, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) broadened access to Medicare telehealth services...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Back to school: What Physicians Can Say to Parents Weighing the Decision »
Should children return to school this fall? Amid the  COVID-19 pandemic , it’s a question physicians—most notably ped...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Florida Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics sends letter to DeSantis »
( WEAR ) – A letter was sent to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis asking him to reconsider the order requiring brick and morta...

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