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NAACOS and others want CMS to hold harmless providers participating in alternative payment models from performance-related penalties for 2020.
HHS has partnered with UnitedHealth Group to provide the rapid payment via Optum Bank and the Automated Clearing House account information on file.
The funding is unlikely to fully compensate providers for the revenue hit caused by cancelled elective surgeries and by labor and PPE costs.
Actions included reducing operating room volume by 80% to ensure adequate capacity to care for an anticipated influx of coronavirus patients.
For each person admitted into intensive care, costs, on average, could exceed $30,000, according to an AHIP study.
After so many hours wearing this form of personal protective equipment, skin can tear, increasing the likelihood of infection.
The challenge of population health is the ability to integrate and share the data for health systems to act upon the information.
CMS has received over 25,000 requests and has approved over 17,000 in the last week.
At the Maine Rural Health Research Center, the goal is to help critical access hospitals find innovative and cost-effective ways to build healthier communities.
Nonprofit insurer is working with two financial-services partners to provide financing guarantees, advance payments and restructuring of contracts.