Week 9 Newsletter

(06/07/20) George Floyd Protests Add New Front Line for Coronavirus Doctors

(06/05/20) COVID-19 Overwhelms Border ICUs 

(06/05/20) To Protect Public Health During and After the Pandemic, We Need a New Approach To Financing Community Health Workers

(06/04/20) Hundreds of Nursing Homes Ran Short on Staff, Protective Gear As More Than 30,000 Residents Died During Pandemic

(06/04/20) New Survey Shows Higher-Than-Normal Use of Primary Care and Telehealth by Patients 

(06/04/20) Why America’s Nurses Were Not Prepared for the Coronavirus Pandemic 

Primary Care & COVID-19:

(06/03/20) Week 12 Survey 

(06/03/20) Local Public Health Workers Report Hostile Threats and Fears About Contact Tracing 

(06/03/20) For Some Private Practices, COVID-19 Is the Last Straw 

(06/03/20) We Can’t Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic Without Public Health Investment 

(06/02/20) Hiring a Diverse Army To Track COVID-19 Amid Reopening 

(06/01/20) Primary Care Doctors Could Be COVID-19’s Next Victims 

(05/29/20) Contact Tracing May Help Avoid Another Lockdown. Can It Work in the US? 

(06/08/20) COVID-19 Reveals the Power of Deregulation

(06/03/20) FTC Asks CMS To Lift Telehealth Access, Reimbursement Restrictions Permanently 

(05/26/20) CMS Modifies Rules To Allow for COVID-19 Tests Without Physician Orders, Expanded Telehealth and Enhanced Payments for Hospital Owned Practices

(05/19/20) HHS Issues Blanket Waivers for Stark Law – Physician Self-Referral in Response To Pandemic 

(06/01/20) Graduating Medical School Early To Help During the Pandemic Wasn’t Anything Like Going to War

(06/07/20) Hospitals Will Struggle Until They Get Patients Back in the Door

(06/05/20) Beyond COVID-19: Telehealth, Partnerships, Member Engagement

(06/03/20) Open (Your Wallet) Wide: Dentists Charge Extra for Infection Control 

(06/03/20) New CMS Payment Model Flexibilities for COVID-19 

Alliance for Health Policy COVID-19 Webinar Series: 

(06/03/20) Session 17 – The Role of Medicaid

(05/25/20) Doctors Face Pay Cuts, Furloughs and Supply Shortages As Coronavirus Pushes Primary Care to the Brink 

(06/08/20) Rapid Changes To Health System Spurred by COVID Might Be Here To Stay

(06/04/20) New Survey Shows Higher-Than-Normal Use of Primary Care and Telehealth by Patients

(06/02/20) How the Rapid Shift To Telehealth Leaves Many Community Health Centers Behind During the COVID-19 Pandemic

(06/02/20) Telehealth Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic

(06/02/20) Telehealth Claim Lines Increase 4,347% Nationally from March 2019 To March 2020 

(06/02/20) The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Transformation of Telehealth 

(05/27/20) The COVID-19 Crisis Created an Urgency for Telehealth. Now, Many Are Hoping It Sticks Around Post-Pandemic 

(06/07/20) ‘I Have Never Felt So Helpless’: Front-Line Workers Confront Loss

(06/06/20) Exclusive: Nearly 600 US Health Workers Died of COVID-19 – and the Toll Is Rising

(06/04/20) Beyond PPE: Protecting Health Care Workers To Prevent a Behavioral Health Disaster