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Seeking a lifeline: COVID-19 loans, advance payments on offer, but watch terms
04/13/2020
by: Roy Edroso

Under the COVID-19 emergency, there are multiple opportunities for financially impacted Medicare providers to get money from government agencies or associated banks — either as loans or as an advance on their reimbursements. But while the application process for these programs tends to be simple, stay alert to some issues that could make trouble for you when it comes time to sign the contract or to pay them back.

Seeking a lifeline: COVID-19 loans, advance payments on offer, but watch terms
04/13/2020
by: Roy Edroso
Under the COVID-19 emergency, there are multiple opportunities for financially impacted Medicare providers to get money from government agencies or associated banks — either as loans or as an advance on their reimbursements.
Questions linger after CMS allows direct supervision through telehealth
04/13/2020
by: Richard Scott
As telehealth is granted unprecedented freedoms during the COVID-19 crisis, your providers are not only eligible to add additional services to their list but they can now provide direct supervision electronically as well.
Federal agencies relax rules, delay deadlines in response to COVID-19 emergency
04/13/2020
by: Tammy Binford
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing disruptions throughout society, and government agencies aren’t immune from the need to make changes to normal practices.
Poll: Medicare for All grabs momentum during coronavirus pandemic
04/13/2020
by: Jim Dresbach
In the middle of a pandemic that has killed thousands and has the potential to hospitalize millions throughout America, a renewed support for Medicare for All has risen to its highest point in nine months, according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll.
Closing for COVID-19? Don’t worry about abandonment, but give notice
04/13/2020
by: Roy Edroso
Question: The COVID-19 emergency has forced us to see nearly all our patients by telehealth only, and soon we may have to close down altogether, at least temporarily. Do we have to worry about patient abandonment trouble after this emergency lifts?
Prolonged codes are on the rise – and in some cases so are denials
04/13/2020
by: Roy Edroso
Use of prolonged service codes went up between 2017 and 2018 and — since CMS is increasingly making use of them, especially for telehealth — it promises to go up more. But watch out for some denial traps. 
Reporting from the front lines: Revenue under fire, staffing cut and, yes, toilet paper stolen
04/06/2020
by: Roy Edroso
From a neurology practice in Florida to a university heath system in Alabama, take an intimate look – directly from providers’ perspectives – at how life has changed for frontline medical groups in the struggle against the pandemic.
Reporting from the front lines: Revenue under fire, staffing cut and, yes, stolen toilet paper
04/06/2020
by: Roy Edroso
As the coronavirus shuts down vast swaths of the American economy and the nation grapples with an unfolding national emergency, health care providers on the front lines are seeing severe repercussions to their day-to-day business operations, their financial livelihood and the ways they interact with patients.
As supplies vanish, America holds its breath for life-saving PPE boom
04/06/2020
by: Jim Dresbach
As America searched for rubber and gasoline on the home front during World War II, today’s health care workers and practices are racing against time to procure sustainable personal protective equipment (PPE) inventories.
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