Quality and Safety
HHS has partnered with UnitedHealth Group to provide the rapid payment via Optum Bank and the Automated Clearing House account information on file.
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.
If the current pandemic continues much longer, acquiring needed ventilator medications will present long-term challenges for patient care.
Healthcare organizations should enter into smart contracts with their eyes open and take steps to ensure the mitigation of risk.
AHA urges Trump Administration for release of $100 billion to hospitals as soon as possible.
Various hospital challenges are feeding off each other as three out of four hospitals treat patients with coronavirus symptoms, OIG report says.
The American Hospital Association is urging other options, such as opening up a special enrollment period of the Affordable Care Act.
UnitedHealth Group previously announced $50 million to fight COVID-19 by supporting healthcare workers, seniors and hard-hit communities.