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By: Kacy Ninteau, Policy & Advocacy Intern From June 24 through June 27, HOSA-Future Health Professionals presented their annual International Leadership Conference for middle school, high school, and college students who wish to pursue careers in the healthcare industry. During the four-day event, students were able to attend educational workshop sessions, meet other students from…

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has announced that those who have not submitted a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the Direct Contracting Model (Global and Professional options) will now be able to do so until 11:59 PM ET on July 6. The start date of the first performance year will be April 1, 2021.…

By: Tierney Beauregard, Programs & Communications Intern, C-TAC With the current global health crisis, older adults, particularly those with advanced illnesses, are facing a pandemic of mental health as an insidious counterpart to COVID-19. Risk factors for depression laid out by the National Institute of Mental Health include having a chronic physical illness, loneliness or…

By: Sage Rosenthal, Policy & Advocacy Associate, C-TAC; Kacy Ninteau, Policy & Advocacy Intern, C-TAC Individuals and their families who are at highest risk for complications from this COVID-19 health crisis are feeling especially vulnerable now. No one knows who will get sick, or how sick they will become. Or whether they would want to…

C-TAC supported many of the CMS flexibilities designed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and advocated for making some of them permanent, in a letter responding to a CMS interim final rule this week. Our response addressed many areas that serve those with serious illness including: Payment for Medicare Telehealth Services:We supported the variety of…

By: Mary Remington, Director, Spiritual Care Department, Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, NY; Director, Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program, Upaya Institute and Zen Center I don’t know where I came from when I was born, or where I’m going when I die. This human experience feels to me more like a stage set for mystery, an invitation…

In a new interview, produced by the Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI), C-TAC Co-Chair and Co-Founder Tom Koutsoumpas discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the essential role of home-based primary, palliative and hospice care. The discussion, which also features Capital Caring Health Chief of Geriatrics Eric De Jonge, MD, highlights recent CMS changes that…

By: Sheik N. Hassan, M.D., FCCP, Associate Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean (Ret), Howard University College of Medicine Ramadan concluded on Saturday May 23, and Muslims observed the Eid-ul-Ftir on Sunday May 24 at their homes. While some of us have worked from home during Ramadan, others were furloughed or laid off from work…

C-TAC has released the full version of a report designed to identify strategies that could be used to boost the use of advance care planning (ACP), a practice that is now more important than ever as we face the uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic. Discern Health, a healthcare quality and research advisory organization, developed the…