By Joel Barthelemy – COVID-19 has arrived in rural America, threatening the livelihoods of its most vulnerable residents. Many rural communities have an older, poorer population, and limited hospitals and medical staff.
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By Blake Farmer – Hospitals around the country are afraid to send out hundreds of thousands of bills related to COVID-19 testing. That’s because Congress mandated there would be no copays and no out-of-pocket costs for patients. But many employers with self-funded health plans seem to believe they’re exempt from the rules.
If it is highly contagious and you don’t know who has it, and you don’t know if you have it, how do you control it? Traditional infection-control and public health strategies rely heavily on early detection of disease to contain spread.
Each year MedReps conducts salary surveys on six categories of sales positions in the medical field. Find out what the surveys found and the outlook to sales salaries in medical, surgical, pharmaceutical, medical equipment, medical device, and biotech sales.
Dr. Tashfeen Ekram – If there was any doubt before the coronavirus pandemic, it’s now crystal clear: Tech will be at the center of patient care moving forward. From the way we communicate to patients about their appointments and care to delivering that care, the role technology plays has dramatically shifted since the early days of 2020.
By Denise Basow MD – Healthcare providers who are battling the coronavirus at the frontlines are much like the firefighting heroes who were dwarfed yet undaunted by sprawling California wildfires.
My COVID reading this week took me down the rabbit hole of insurance. Are health policies covering COVID related claims? With unemployment number skyrocketing so is the uninsured numbers. We aren’t driving our cars so what about our car insurance? Are life insurance policies paying out on COVID deaths? What about business interruption policies?
By Drew Ivan – Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy published a whitepaper, Data Interoperability and Exchange to Support COVID-19 Containment. Authors, Farzad Mostashari and Mark McClellan, lay out three strategies to help guide policymakers around the globe as they address the COVID-19 pandemic:.
By Kayla Matthews – The COVID-19 pandemic led many officials to establish shelter-in-place orders for their jurisdictions. These regulations intend to keep people safe and curb the spread of the virus. What happens when someone’s home may be a dangerous place?