Health care administrators

Similarly, there was bipartisan support before the pandemic for policies to address so-called "surprise" medical bills, such as those received from out-of-network physicians during emergency treatment. It's an issue that has high political salience, and voters say they want to see solved. But bipartisan negotiations on legislation to address surprise medical billing eventually stalled because deep-pocketed special interest groups spent millions of dollars opposing the reforms and lawmakers couldn't agree on the exact mechanism to determine how much providers would get paid. The policy disagreements weren't fundamentally partisan, however, and strong leadership from Biden could help break the logjam and produce a compromise set of reforms. … [Read more...] about How Biden could solve America’s health care problems

Health care The Biden administration’s first priority, apart from better controlling the pandemic, likely will be to roll back some of the changes made under Trump, said Adam Fox, deputy director of the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative. The Biden team likely will look to reinstate protections against discrimination for transgender people, stop approving states’ requests to set work requirements for Medicaid and limit the sale of short-term health insurance plans that don’t cover preexisting conditions, he said. … [Read more...] about Here’s how the new Biden administration will impact Coloradans

Anniversaries are important and meaningful to us. They're a way of marking the passage of time and noting historical events, delineating the Before and After. And with the start of our second year dealing with this novel coronavirus, which almost exactly coincides with the start of 2021, we will be noting many more Firsts of the Covid-19 Pandemic: the first complete lockdown of a city, Wuhan (1/23); the first time the World Health Organization declared coronavirus a "public health emergency of international concern" (1/30); the first death outside of mainland China (2/2); the introduction of the name "Covid-19" -- the disease caused by the novel coronavirus -- into the popular lexicon (2/11); the first known US death (2/29)-- although health officials would later amend that milestone (2/6). And I'll never forget March 9, the first time I, on CNN, used the word "pandemic" to describe what was happening. Two days later, WHO did the same. … [Read more...] about Dr. Sanjay Gupta: The United States’ one-year coronavirus checkup

Nurse Dena Ollis, the director of women's services who helped set up the program at Piedmont Athens Regional in Georgia, said the monoclonal antibody treatments have brought something that staff and patients haven't seen much during pandemic -- hope. … [Read more...] about Lifesaving Covid-19 antibody treatments are plentiful, but still sitting on the shelf

“On the basis of a lengthy discussion of the clinical findings among the seven vaccine recipients (all of whom received treatment and recovered), aided by the three guest experts in allergy and immunology, it was concluded that while one or more of the seven individuals had angioedema, anaphylaxis was not confirmed in any of them and none experienced a life-threatening adverse event following administration of the vaccine,” said a review by the Western States Scientific Safety Workgroup. … [Read more...] about COVID Vaccines: CDPH Says Moderna Batch Under Scrutiny Safe, ‘No Scientific Basis’ To Pause Distribution