MJH News June 2020 Digital Edition

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Telehealth and COVID-19: Years of progress in just months. But is it here to stay?

By Kelly T. Custer and Beth Anne Jackson, Brown & Fortunato, P.C.   Congress and CMS have issued round after round of sweeping regulatory waivers and rule changes to provide flexibility to the health care system as America grapples with COVID-19. These changes include provisions that make it remarkably easier for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to access telehealth services. This article summarizes some of the changes and our thoughts on what telehealth will look like...

CARES ACT Tax Provisions can lower what you are paying now

By Catherine Lightfoot, CPA, CHBC, Director of Healthcare at EEPB   SBA loans, EIDL grants, PPP loans and telehealth are some of the many new programs provided by the CARES Act. The continuous updates to change and alter the understanding of these programs have provided a fair degree of stress.  In this turmoil, it could have been easy to miss some other provisions of the CARES Act that might be very important to your tax...

OSHA concerns for healthcare employers while navigating the COVID-19 pandemic

By Pamela Williams, Partner, Fisher Phillips   With the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has placed an increased focused on the obligations of healthcare employers to provide employees a safe work environment.  OSHA recently published an alert regarding COVID-19 guidance for nursing home and long-term care facility workers, with recommendations for practices to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus. While the suggested practices are laudable, some of the...

Will COVID-19 shift long-term inpatient revenues for Texas hospitals?

By Alanna Moriarty, Content Marketing Manager, Definitive Healthcare   While many hospitals across the U.S. begin to recover from the worst of COVID-19 cases, healthcare industry leaders are raising questions about the long-term impacts of the pandemic on care delivery and patient outcomes. One key question is whether physicians will see increases in patient complication rates as a result of postponing care—both for patients delaying treatment for existing conditions and patients who put off seeking an initial diagnosis.  ...

Hospitals stand ready to provide safe care

By Ted Shaw, President/CEO, Texas Hospital Association   Hospitals consistently are confronted with new situations, emergencies and events—often unique and unlike those they have encountered before. In 2014, a Dallas hospital treated the country’s first case of Ebola. During Hurricane Harvey, hospitals statewide rushed to respond to and heal those impacted by the state’s most damaging and expensive hurricane to date. Months later, the Texas First Baptist Church shooting would kick off a string of...

Integrative medicine and chronic pain

By Victor S. Sierpina, MD   “The beginning is always today.” –Mary Wollstonecraft   During some unexpected free time, I took an online course from the University of Arizona’s Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. Go to https://integrativemedicine.arizona.edu/ for a large array of online materials and course in integrative medicine. It is a rich, well validated, and dependable resource for the entire spectrum of integrative medicine.   In my case, I decided to enroll in...

Houston Methodist Sugar Land welcomes new comprehensive stroke program director

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital has named Wamda Ahmed, M.D., as medical director of comprehensive stroke.   Ahmed is a board-certified neurologist with a specialization in neurocritical care. She will also serve as a neurohospitalist at Houston Methodist Sugar Land working directly with inpatient stroke patients.   “Houston Methodist Sugar Land has made tremendous strides in its stroke program, recently earning the American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award,” said...

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital welcomes interventional cardiologist Rasi Wickramasinghe, M.D., Ph.D.

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital is pleased to welcome board-certified interventional cardiologist, Rasi Wickramasinghe, M.D., who joins Toussaint Smith, M.D., and Sherman Tang, M.D., at Houston Methodist Cardiology Associates in Sugar Land. Wickramasinghe earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, followed by his medical degree and PhD from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, where he also completed his residency in internal medicine at the Osler Medical Service of Johns Hopkins Hospital....

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