Jeff Lagasse
The initiative is focusing first on extreme heat events to provide timely excessive heat alerts and tailored outreach to at-risk patients.
There will be a net increase of 4.2%, or approximately $1.4 billion, in Medicare Part A payments to SNFs next year.
The plaintiffs claim that Change failed to implement cybersecurity safeguards such as multifactor authentication.
The bill was conceived after the Change Healthcare attack which lawmakers cited as evidence of a lack of preparation and training.
Strategies to curb violence in the work setting include training, technology support and coordinating with local law enforcement.
The defendants allegedly caused the hospital to pay vendors for goods and services they knew had not been provided.
Infants and toddlers can be challenging to evaluate partly because of their limited ability to communicate symptoms, authors say.
The current hurricane season will require providers, manufacturers and distributors to make adequate supply chain preparations.