Since the COVID-19 pandemic’s beginning, EHR-related factors have dropped from top spots as a cause of burnout for clinicians, making way for chaotic work environment and long hours.
The FDA revised its emergency use authorization for EVUSHELD™, tixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab. The initial dose authorized has been changed to 600 mg for pre-exposure prevention of COVID-19.
Maine Medical Center plans to leave the Anthem insurance network in January because of the insurer’s payment practices, including what hospital officials say is $13 million in underpayments to the hospital and more than $70 million in unpaid claims to the MaineHealth hospital network. The dispute pitting the state’s largest hospital against one of Maine’s largest health insurers could affect more than 150,000 patients, who would have to pay higher out-of-pocket costs at Maine Med.
The Syracuse Fire Department may start billing residents for ambulance calls they handle when private companies are overwhelmed. Since November, the city’s fire department has been running a pilot ambulance service to fill in gaps for AMR and other ambulance services who have been stretched thin by the pandemic.
The American Medical Response ambulance service has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle claims by the federal and state government’s that it improperly billed the Medicaid and Medicare government insurance programs for services. The federal and state governments claimed that AMR billed for paramedic services at the scenes of emergency responses when in fact the services were performed by local fire departments, federal authorities said.
A report released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) estimates nearly $88 billion in past-due medical bills for the 2021 year. Additionally, the report found that 20% of households in the United States have medical debt.
