Our colleagues from the state wide Practice Support team are offering a no-cost webinar for practice managers and their teams. Practices need tools and processes to create and maintain sustainable businesses. This two-part series will focus on key aspects of financial sustainability including long-term planning, establishing systems to track fiscal health, and financial modeling.
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Getting tested for COVID-19 is about protecting yourself and your loved ones. To help ensure everyone has access to COVID-19 testing, the NC Department of Health and Human Services, in partnership with NC-based Labcorp, has launched a pilot program to provide 35,000 no-cost, at-home COVID-19 collection kits for North Carolinians who may face difficulties traveling to testing sites. If you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms or think you may need to get tested, please get tested.
Our colleagues at the UNC Lineberger Cancer Network have a variety of live and on-demand content that may be of interest to you. In particular, the 'Patient Centered Care' series includes topics relevant to primary care clinicians. While it is short notice for the webinar this Friday, consider saving time on your calendar for future offerings (the March 9th event may be especially relevant for you).
Please join NC Medicaid Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Shannon Dowler, along with the NC Medicaid Managed Care Plan CMOs, for the February Fireside Chat on Thursday, February 17 from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Postpartum depression is a form of depression that occurs in some women following pregnancy and delivery. It is one of the most common medical complications during the six months following childbirth and is associated with adverse outcomes for both mother and child. In North Carolina, nearly 11% of women experienced postpartum depression. Source: America's Health Rankings https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/health-of-women-and-children/measure/postpartum_depression/state/NC
NCMGMA is rolling out a brand-new opportunity for practice administrators, managers, and industry leaders with its Productive Practice Leaders Certification through a 2022 Master Class.
On Tuesday, January 25, HHS announced that it is disbursing an additional $2 billion in Provider Relief Fund Phase 4 payments. Like the payments allocated in December, these will be based on lost revenues and increased expenses due to COVID-19 and will be made to health care providers who previously applied for relief funds.
On January 24, 2022, NC State Health Director, Dr. Betsey Cuervo Tilson, rescinded the statewide standing orders for the following due to the high prevalence of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in North Carolina for which these therapies are not an effective treatment:
Blue Cross NC has made the business decision to update the Status Codes Reimbursement Policy, effective January 21, 2022.
