Following in the footsteps of residents and fellows, employed physicians and allied health professionals are moving toward unionizing. Earlier this month, more than 550 physicians, PAs, and nurse practitioners at the Allina Health System in Minnesota petitioned to unionize. The group makes up more than 60% of the clinician workforce across the health system’s 61 primary and urgent care clinics. If approved, it would represent the nation’s largest private sector union for clinicians.

We’re performing a review of Care Appropriate cases, but reviewers are very uncomfortable reviewing the cases after they have been reviewed by a department/section. Do you have suggestions on how to perform this review and about the physician uncertainty in this process?

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Child and adolescent psychiatry focuses on the evaluation and treatment of developmental, behavioral, emotional, and mental disorders of childhood and adolescence. According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), child and adolescent psychiatrists provide medical/psychiatric evaluation and a full range of treatment interventions for emotional and behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders, and can prescribe and monitor medications.

The past few years have seen an extraordinary rise in telehealth services as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift toward virtual care. With the advent of telehealth, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) loosened its HIPAA enforcements, providing temporary relief and flexibility to healthcare providers to deliver remote services amid an unprecedented public health crisis.