The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that it has increased access to Medicare telehealth services, in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. This means that Medicare beneficiaries can receive more benefits from their doctors without having to travel to a healthcare facility. The terms “telehealth” and “telemedicine” refer to the ability to…
California created a new law that was enacted in late September 2020, in response to the concerns that state health agencies were too slow to respond to coronavirus outbreaks in skilled nursing facilities because of a lack of timely information elevated to these agencies. Since the COVID-19 pandemic has hit nursing homes very hard, Governor…
Although nursing home residents are less than one percent of the total US population, according to a report in the Minnesota Star Tribune, they account for more than 40 percent or approximately 45,500 of the US 115,000 COVID-19 deaths. Seema Verma, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), asserts that nursing…