Practice Management
Essential Health says it went to great lengths to make sure employees had time to get their flu shots or apply for an opt-out on medical, religious, or philosophical grounds. It also tried to make it as easy as possible by offering multiple, free vaccine clinics, sending vaccine carts around so workers wouldn’t even have to leave their post. It provided ample incentive, too, notifying workers that if they did not get vaccinated (or an …
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Medicaid recipients who go to Tennessee emergency rooms with nonemergent complaints cost the state nearly $85 million a year, according to a report published online by WATE television in Knoxville. The data show federally and state-funded nonemergent ED visits drove up costs 25% in 2016 compared with the previous year. Some of the most common complaints that could have been treated in a lower-acuity (and less costly) setting like urgent care included acute upper respiratory …
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