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A chance for change. Despite these challenging times, challenging in so many more ways than we could've ever imagined, the new year brought some hope related to one part of our broken healthcare system, and it was a change that we never even really saw coming. Although there's so much more to go, so many things that need fixing, many of us were surprised by the new CMS 2021 guidelines about Medicare billing and compliance. Who would've thought? For so many years, the rules and regulations about what needed to be in a progress note to allow a certain level of billing created massive note bloat...

Disability and age were associated with poorer COVID-19 outcomes in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, registry data showed. Of approximately 2,000 people with MS and COVID-19 in North America, 17.8% of non-ambulatory patients died, compared with 4.3% of MS patients who walked with assistance and 0.6% of patients who were fully ambulatory, reported Amber Salter, PhD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Death occured most frequently in MS patients, ages 75 and older, who had COVID-19, she said in a presentation at ACTRIMS Forum 2021, the annual meeting of the Americas Comm...

email article Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) has seen a surge in cases trailing the winter wave of COVID-19 in adults, but the treatment and recognition of it are better than in the earlier waves, clinicians and researchers say. Over the last 30 days, there have been around 11 cases of this SARS-CoV-2 infection-linked syndrome at the Nemours Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware, as compared with a high of six to eight per month in the spring wave and three or fewer a month over the summer and fall. "We anticipated this," said Meg Frizzola, DO, chief of th...

email article WASHINGTON -- The federal government needs to make it easier for community health centers and other vaccine distribution locations to report on how many vaccines they have distributed, Lathran Woodard told the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on the coronavirus crisis. "We're having provider burnout because of the hassle of having to individually enter each vaccine," Woodard, who is board chairman of the National Association of Community Health Centers, said at a briefing Friday on ensuring equity in coronavirus vaccinations. "The flip side is we're getting less v...

email article Transgender and gender-diverse patients have unique healthcare needs, and ob/gyn physicians should educate themselves so they can provide appropriate, inclusive, and affirming care, an American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) committee said. Providers should discuss patients' fertility desires as early as possible in the transition process, and ensure that contraceptive options are offered beyond gender-affirming hormone therapy, according to a report from ACOG's Committee on Gynecologic Practice and Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women. The doc...