Healthcare News Roundup: Special 60-Minute Edition

While much of today’s healthcare news is righty focused on the efforts to stave off the global coronavirus pandemic, there is other news to report – and Monitor Mondays will have a complete wrap-up on all of it during the next edition of the weekly Internet radio broadcast, while also looking ahead.

And given the tendency of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to issue waivers and guidance with a unique style of ambiguity, a great deal of confusion also continues to come from hospitals and health systems in their efforts to remain compliant – while at the same time tending to their mission of delivering patient care amid the crisis. So during this special 60-minute live edition, we’ll also have our panelists standing by to answer your questions.

Other segments to be featured during the live broadcast include the following:

• RAC Report: Healthcare attorney Knicole Emanuel, a partner in the Potomac Law Group, will file the Monitor Mondays RAC Report.
  
  
• Monday Focus: Kathy Pride, executive vice president of coding and documentation services for Panacea Health, will report on two interim final rules, including an expansion and relaxation of guidelines for telehealth services.
  
  
  
• Court Report: Famed whistleblower attorney Mary Inman, partner in the London office of Constantine Cannon, will report on two prominent examples of the need for independent regulatory oversight: the removal of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and news that Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, has filed a whistleblower complaint with the Office of  Special Counsel, claiming that he was transferred to a “less impactful position” at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after he was reluctant to promote the use of drugs such as hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients.
  
  
• Legislative Update: Former CMS official Matthew Albright, now chief legislative affairs officer for Zelis, will report on the status of healthcare legislation associated with the current COVID-19 pandemic.
  
  
• Risky Business: Healthcare attorney David Glaser, shareholder in the law offices of Fredrikson & Bryon, will join the broadcast with his trademark segment, reporting on regulatory ambiguity during the pandemic.
  
  
• Outpatient Therapy Update:  Nancy Beckley, president of Nancy Beckley and Associates, will return to the broadcast to report on inequities for outpatient therapy providers as it pertains to payment, reimbursement, telehealth, and service delivery.
  
  
• Monday Rounds: Ronald Hirsch, MD, vice president of R1 RCM, will be making his Monday Rounds with another installment of his popular segment. 
  
  
• Special Report: RACmonitor investigative reporter Edward C. Roche, PhD, JD, will provide a status report on COVID-19 testing in the United States.
  
  
• COVID Q&A: Navigating COVID-19 guidance continues to be a major challenge for healthcare professionals – and that is why Monitor Mondays will devote additional time during this live broadcast to answer your questions. Returning to the broadcast will be Matt Lambert, MD, an emergency medicine physician and chief medical officer for Curation Health.