coronavirus patients

CMS will need positive test result for providers to get Medicare payment for COVID-19 patients

Beginning from next month, providers wanting to get Medicare payments to treat a patient with COVID-19 must include a positive test in that patient’s medical record. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a new guidance that aims to update how providers will be paid for treating COVID-19 starting on September, 1

No accurate tracking of healthcare workers lost to COVID-19, led her to stay up at night cataloging the dead

A woman was found dead at home for atleast 12 hours, with only her 4-year-old daughter by her side. Her early reports revealed that she was 42, a mammogram technician at a hospital and most certainly a COVID-19 patient.

CMS expands telehealth reimbursements to therapists, phone services during the COVID-19 crisis

Federal officials are again relaxing rules with reference to telehealth use during the Coronavirus crisis. They will now allow physical therapists and other providers to get reimbursed through Medicare and expand coverage for phone-based services.

Amidst the coronavirus pandemic hospitals cut pays of doctors and nurses

Many doctors, nurses and medical workers experience an unexpected ripple effect from the coronavirus outbreak - their pays are being cut.