May 1, 2020
By Stephanie Van Zandt, MD, FACOG, CHCCQM-PHYADV Keeping Cool, Calm, and Conservative Amid the COVID Chaos: Perspective from a Frontline UM Physician Advisor
Over the past few years, our utilization management (UM) team has been hard at work to shift the habits of admitting physicians when it comes to assigning appropriate admission status. Nothing like a pandemic to create a utilization management nightmare. Mustering confidence amid so many unknowns associated with COVID-19 has…
May 1, 2020
By Matt Lambert, MD Lessons Learned on the Front Lines of COVID-19
As a wary nation emerges from lockdown, front-line healthcare workers know that an uncertain future remains ahead. One of the most stressful things about the COVID-19 pandemic is how fast things are changing. Emergency medicine has always been a stressful career, and the nature of the work, combined with the…
May 1, 2020
By Michael A. Salvatore, MD, FACP One Patient’s Story
A healthcare administrator who returned to the ICU amid the coronavirus epidemic had a memorable patient to care for – with a little help from an app. When I was a child, there was a show on TV called The Naked City. At the conclusion of each show, a baritone…
May 1, 2020
By Aspen Albright Coronavirus: The Video Game
I'm Aspen Albright. I'm 13 years old and I live in Maryland. I like writing and acting a lot, and I especially have a thing for video games. Here are my thoughts on the coronavirus: In a lot of ways, quarantine is like a video game to me. I can…
By Madison Allen
My name is Madison Allen. I am a 15-year-old girl who loves spending her time outdoors or hanging out with her friends. If neither of those options are available, then I don’t really know what else to do to cure boredom. I love technology, don’t get me wrong, but I…
May 1, 2020
By Trinity Buck COVID-19: Staying at Home Spurs Renewed Hobbies
When the news broke out that the school year of 2020 was over, it was a huge shock to my friends and me. We never imagined that anything this crazy would ever happen to us in our lifetimes, let alone a deadly virus. It just happened so fast – on…
May 1, 2020
By Zachary Glaser COVID-19: We’ll Get Through This—With Aplomb
On March 12, when my father told me that I couldn’t see my friends anymore, I was peeved. There were only nine cases in Minnesota, and I was going to lose a couple of weeks or more from the end of my senior year! None of my friends were quarantined;…
April 30, 2020
By Knicole C. Emanuel Esq. COVID-19: The Importance of Back Billing During a Crisis
Back billing is key to remaining in business during COVID-19. One of the questions that I have heard repeatedly during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic was why numerous clients were being prevented from working during a time in which we seemed to need so many healthcare providers. One of my clients…
April 30, 2020
By Ronald Hirsch, MD The Future of Telehealth: A Less Rosy Outlook
The future of telehealth is too uncertain. It is clearly too early to speculate about life after the COVID-19 pandemic. But one question that many are seeking to answer is this: what is the future of telehealth, once the public health emergency has ended? While Seema Verma, the Centers for…
By Matthew Albright
More money to offset the impact of COVID-19. EDITOR’S NOTE: During recent weeks, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been announcing revisions to its regulatory requirements on a near-daily basis to ease administrative and logistical burdens on providers amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As such, articles published…
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