by Advize Admin | Feb 25, 2022 | Healthcare
The Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) program is a CMS initiative that seeks to identify national error rates in a variety of areas. Temporarily suspended due to COVID-19, the CERT program came back into action in August 2020. The program, in a...
by Advize Admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Healthcare
Aneka French applied for Medicaid in October, not long after Missouri became the 38th state to expand eligibility for the program. But her application sat for months in a backlog with tens of thousands of others. While she waited, French, 45, an uninsured medical...
by Advize Admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Healthcare
Late one night in January, Jonathan Coffino, 78, turned to his wife as they sat in bed. “I don’t know how much longer I can do this,” he said, glumly. Coffino was referring to the caution that’s come to define his life during the covid-19 pandemic. After two years of...
by Advize Admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Healthcare
For some counties and cities that share a public health agency with other local governments, differences over mask mandates, business restrictions, and other covid preventive measures have strained those partnerships. At least two have been pushed past the breaking...
by Advize Admin | Jan 21, 2022 | Healthcare
Americans keep hearing that it is important to test frequently for covid-19 at home. But just try to find an “at-home” rapid covid test in a store and at a price that makes frequent tests affordable. Testing, as well as mask-wearing, is an important measure if the...
by Advize Admin | Jan 21, 2022 | Healthcare
Some health insurance brokers in the market are enrolling people into ACA (Affordable Care Act) health care plans without their consent, perhaps for the commissions, a move that could put consumers in danger of owing back the subsidies connected with the coverage. The...
by Advize Admin | Jan 14, 2022 | Healthcare
Click here for a transcript of the episode. In this episode of What the Health: Medicare officials have preliminarily decided to restrict reimbursement for Aduhelm, the controversial Alzheimer’s drug, to only patients participating in the approved clinical trials. The...
by Advize Admin | Jan 14, 2022 | Healthcare
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a key Biden administration covid-19 initiative — putting a stop, for now, to a rule requiring businesses with more than 100 workers to either mandate that employees be vaccinated against covid or wear masks and undergo weekly...
by Advize Admin | Jan 14, 2022 | Healthcare
A new rule took effect recently that requires commercial payors to provide reimbursement for in-home COVID-19 testing, at a rate of eight (8) test kits per person, per month. Although well intended, the process for seeking reimbursement from commercial payors...
by Advize Admin | Jan 11, 2022 | Healthcare
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s sweeping new program to buy Rx drugs for its nearly 14 million Medicaid patients has alarmed health clinics that say they will lose money and have to cut services. Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged Monday that some clinics, which serve...
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