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CMS Finalizes 2021 Physician Fee Schedule
12/02/2020The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule, updating policy changes for Medicare...
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- All Healthcare Organizations
FDA Updates
12/02/2020The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates and activities: FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Drug Interacti...
- Food and Drug Administration
- All Healthcare Organizations
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced several strategies and initiatives to allow health care systems to provide care t...
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Ambulatory Surgical Centers,
- Critical Access Hospitals,
- Hospitals
The American College of Surgeons, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses and the American Hospital...
- Miscellaneous
- Ambulatory Surgical Centers,
- Critical Access Hospitals,
- Hospitals,
- Office-Based Surgery
Happy Thanksgiving
11/25/2020The MCN Healthcare StayAlert! Team wishes you a happy and restful Thanksgiving Holiday. As a reminder our office is closed November 26-27....
- Miscellaneous
- All Healthcare Organizations
FDA Updates
11/25/2020The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates and activities: Face Masks, Including Surgical Masks, and R...
- Food and Drug Administration
- All Healthcare Organizations
OIG Issues Updated COVID-19 Fraud Alert
11/24/2020The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) is reminding providers and the public of fraud related to the COVID...
- Office of Inspector General
- All Healthcare Organizations
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a final rule designed to increase the supply of lifesaving organs available for tran...
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Hospitals
FDA Updates
11/20/2020The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) update and activities: Dexmedetomidine Hydrochloride Injection by F...
- Food and Drug Administration
- All Healthcare Organizations
In advance of the approaching holiday season, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is urging nursing home staff, residents and visit...
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Long Term Care
The Joint Commission (TJC) has released a new education campaign intended to assist patients advocate for safer surgery. According to TJC, while in mo...
- The Joint Commission
- Ambulatory Surgical Centers,
- Critical Access Hospitals,
- Hospitals,
- Office-Based Surgery
Antibiotic Awareness Week 2020
11/18/2020Today kicks off U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week 2020 (USAAW) aimed at raising awareness of the threat of antibiotic resistance and the importance of ap...
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Ambulatory Surgical Centers,
- Critical Access Hospitals,
- Hospitals
CDC Releases Scientific Brief on Community Use of Cloth Masks to Control the Spread of SARS-CoV-2
11/17/2020The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published a scientific brief on the community use of cloth masks to control the spread o...
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- All Healthcare Organizations
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released guidance for CMS Locations (formerly known as CMS Regional Office) and CLI...
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Clinical Lab
FDA Updates
11/13/2020The following is a listing of recent FDA updates and activities: Cook Medical Recalls Fixed Core Wire Guides, Due to Device Damage from a Manufa...
- Food and Drug Administration
- All Healthcare Organizations