Healthcare

In Part 3 of 3 on our series of Mental Health and COVID, we talk with Gina Rossi, LCSW-BACS, DCSW, MHSA, about the challenges she has seen and faced in treating the older population during the COVID-19 pandemic, including isolation, mask and vaccine mandates, and technology challenges faced using teletherapy.

There is no question that Covid restrictions, mandates, and directives, have impacted the mental health of adults and families all across the world.

The Covid pandemic has changed the behavior and social interactions for millions of people.

Last week, President Biden announced that under an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) soon will require all private employers with more than 100 employees to require workers to become vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID-19 tests.

Every day, more and more cities are enacting vaccine “mandates” or restrictions on what you can (and can’t) do if you are unvaccinated. But how does this affect your rights under HIPAA? Is your vaccination card considered PHI? 

Have you ever been to a hospital that you thought was “in-network”, only to receive a bill sometime later from an “out of network” provider? In this week’s episode of Health Law Talk, Conrad Meyer and Rory Bellina discuss “balance billing”

In this week’s episode of Health Law talk, Conrad Meyer and Rory Bellina discuss APP’s or advanced practice providers.

On this episode of Health Law Talk, Conrad Meyer and Rory Bellina discuss the possible overturn of Roe v. Wade and its effects on healthcare.

In the US healthcare delivery system, physicians are exposed after residency and fellowship should numerous choices of whether or not to become employed by hospital systems, group practices, or start their own practice.