TACOMA, Wash. (PRWEB)
May 13, 2020

TRA Medical Imaging (“TRA”) and Diagnostic Imaging Northwest (“DINW”) announce that they are immediately implementing a phased approach to expanding access to non-urgent imaging exams with an emphasis around patient and staff safety, based on Governor Jay Inslee’s guidance for healthcare providers.

“Over the past few weeks, we’ve worked very diligently internally and with our health system partners,” said Douglas Seiler, M.D., Physician President. “The primary goal of what we are trying to accomplish is to do what’s best for the patient…which is at the core of our values. We are implementing a plan that takes into account the consequences of delays in diagnosis and creating undo harm, including patient anxiety, emotional distress and prolonged pain, while making sure we have the extra precautions in place to safely carry out this plan.”

Over the next few weeks, a concerted effort will be made to prioritize patients whose care was delayed due to the COVID-19 crisis. Following that, the schedule will expand to include the vast majority of imaging exams as long as patient and staff safety is not compromised.

TRA has been preparing for weeks to implement a strategy to discontinue the deferment of non-urgent studies and safely expand patient access to most imaging exams and procedures. The key to this strategy is the adoption of the “SAFE” principle across all locations.

TRA’s internal definition of safe simply means:

S – Social distancing requirements with flexible waiting options.

A – Applied universal masking protocol & temperature screening

F – Facility safety enhancements including physical and engineered barriers.

E – Enhanced cleaning and disinfecting.

“We have and will continue to engineer our operations with the belief that physical distancing, and other protective health measures, will be in our society for the long-term,” said Chris Coates, TRA’s Chief Executive Officer. “Over the coming weeks and months we are planning to make continued investments in these safety efforts, including adequate protective equipment stock, so our staff and patients can continue to receive outstanding care in a safe, comfortable setting.”

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NEW YORK (PRWEB)
May 13, 2020

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LIVONIA, Mich. (PRWEB)
May 13, 2020

RevSpring, the leading provider of healthcare financial engagement and payment solutions, has responded to the COVID-19 crisis by creating a Financial Distress Indicator™ to help healthcare providers understand which of their patients are most financially impacted by the pandemic. Building on years of industry experience and healthcare payment expertise, RevSpring’s financial distress measurement model helps hospitals and other healthcare providers adapt their billing and payment tactics to a patient’s dynamic fiscal conditions, such as COVID-19.

RevSpring reviewed data from 370 million U.S. consumers to identify how many people have been negatively financially impacted by the pandemic. The data revealed that nearly 30 percent of people with a high propensity to pay their bills are in coronavirus-related financial distress. The findings confirmed the need for a more precise way for healthcare revenue managers to navigate during this unpredictable and rapidly changing financial environment.

“There are consumers who’ve lost their jobs either temporarily or permanently and don’t have sufficient savings or access to cash,” said RevSpring VP of Analytics, April Wilson. “These people will struggle to meet financial obligations, including their healthcare bills. However, there are many patients who still have their jobs, strong savings, or both. By understanding those real-time, real-life insights, providers will be better able to showcase payment options based on patient needs and still have the confidence to continue billing and payment activity in a sensitive way.”

RevSpring’s Financial Distress Indicator is unique because it fills the gaps in traditional propensity to pay models by factoring in economic variables based on employment industry and other household income metrics. Healthcare providers can match appropriate payment options for people experiencing financial distress during this unprecedented fiscal reality.

Traditional credit score propensity to pay models do not take COVID-19 financial changes into account. With insight from the Financial Distress Indicator, healthcare providers can approach patients with balances in the most appropriate manner. Providers can leverage their knowledge about which patients may need new payment options or flexibility to delay payments until they can find new jobs or return to previous ones if on furlough, among other payment options.

RevSpring clients can use their insight into which patients are in COVID-related financial distress by adding empathetic messages to their print statements, patient portals, inbound and outbound IVR scripts and more. In addition, RevSpring can help clients customize online statements for the affected patients to find the right combination of compassion and collections.

“Patient empathy is especially critical at this time, but so is the financial health of providers,” said Wilson. “Providing flexible payment options or financial assistance well before accounts reach collections status will improve collections and cash flow, as well as reduce bad debt. It also lets patients know their healthcare providers understand their situation and want to work with them accordingly.”

About RevSpring

RevSpring leads the market in financial communications and payment solutions that inspire patients to pay. The company has built the industry’s most comprehensive and impactful suite of patient engagement, OmniChannel communications and payment solutions backed by behavior analysis, propensity-to-pay scoring, contextual messaging, and user experience best practices. Using proprietary data analytics to tailor the engagement from pre-service to post-service, we improve the financial experience and outcomes for providers and their patients. To learn more, visit revspringinc.com/healthcare.

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“Our position on the leading edge of home-based patient care is further enhanced with the addition of telehealth from Wanda Health,” said Dr. Gary Sarafa, President of Avalon Physician Services

DETROIT and SEATTLE (PRWEB)
May 13, 2020

Avalon Physician Services and Wanda Health announce their partnership to leverage Wanda Health’s COVID-19 telehealth solution to provide patients and quarantined individuals with quick, safe, automated symptom screening. This is accompanied by ongoing remote care management for those who are symptomatic or have tested positive for COVID-19. The use of the company’s telehealth programs for patient care reduces the risk of exposure for patients, families, and medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic while improving care for patients and responding to their questions.

“Our position on the leading edge of home-based patient care is further enhanced with the addition of telehealth from Wanda Health,” said Dr. Gary Sarafa, President of Avalon Physician Services. “Telehealth and remote patient management for chronic conditions, and now with COVID-19, are successful strategies that will allow us to proactively support patients and families with the best care possible while keeping the patients safe at home. Utilizing Wanda Health, Avalon Physician Services is able to provide true evidence-based care, linking symptoms, interventions, and outcomes in ways that benefit patents and providers in a healthy therapeutic alliance.”

Using the Wanda Health system, patients receive automated Daily COVID-19 Health Checks which follows CDC symptom guidance as well as reporting their temperature and other relevant vitals for analysis. The automated Daily COVID-19 Health Checks are delivered from the Wanda Telehealth platform across multiple channels, including telephone, Interactive Voice Response, text, and apps, which improves patient satisfaction and ease of use. The patients can then be monitored by clinical staff who may themselves be self-isolating, as well as clinicians working routinely. Federal, state, and commercial payers have approved multiple services and billing codes to allow medical professionals to be reimbursed for the use of the Wanda Health services to combat the COVID-19 virus and ongoing chronic disease management.

“Our COVID-19 Telehealth programs continue to be successful in helping doctors rapidly screen, evaluate, support, and manage the expectations of their patients and families. The physicians are pleased that its use contributes to their bottom line as well,” said Bill Bassett, President of Wanda Health. “We added the COVID-19 Telehealth programs to our chronic care and specialty disease platform to facilitate the ability of doctors to protect and care for their patients from remote locations. In today’s challenging environment speed is paramount. Wanda’s team can have a program up and running within a few days, enabling rapid rollout to thousands of patients.”

Any health care provider, payer, hospital, clinic, and local, state or Federal government entities involved in combating the COVID-19 virus can reach Wanda Health to learn more by emailing us at info@wandahealth.com or call 206-472-5584.

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SEATTLE (PRWEB)
May 12, 2020

Seattle and Bellevue have recently seen the opening of a new boutique style interventional pain clinic. The vision of board certified interventional pain doctor, Dr. Robert Bowers strives to be one of the Seattle area’s best pain doctors and to offer effective and long lasting pain relief to patients, whether they are experiencing acute pain or chronic pain, using the most up to date approaches to pain management.

Bellevue Pain and Wellness PLLC offers top pain clinic services and therapies for acute and chronic pain relief including evaluation and treatment of neck pain, lower back pain, joint pain, including hip pain, knee pain, ankle pain, shoulder pain, elbow pain, wrist pain, headache, migraine, chronic pain, abdominal pain, pelvic pain, facial pain, and provides services including joint injections, back injections, neck injections, epidural injections, sacroiliac joint injections, trigger point injections, radiofrequency ablation, genicular nerve block for arthritis of the knees, facet blocks for low back pain, evaluation for non-opioid pain medications, spinal cord stimulation and neuromodulation, and treatment of acute pain after surgery.

In addition to offering high quality pain management services such as new patient consultations and injection therapy, Dr. Robert Bowers is pleased to offer the cutting edge therapy of neuromodulation, also known as spinal cord stimulation, where small electrodes can be inserted through the skin during a short outpatient procedure. Spinal cord stimulation is an FDA approved technique with a long standing history, however the technology has been evolving rapidly over the past five years, with an improvement in pain relief to patients.

“As a field, interventional pain management specialists are always on the lookout for something that can do better for pain relief. I’ve seen spinal cord stimulation work so well for some patients time and time again, however every time it works, I’m simply amazed and grateful to have been a part of something that has the potential to be so life changing for an individual,” says Dr. Bowers.

There are a variety of painful conditions that may benefit from neuromodulation, including certain types of low back pain, neck pain, sciatica, and arm or leg pain. Specific conditions that might benefit include failed back surgery pain, epidural fibrosis and shooting or burning leg pain, spinal stenosis, CRPS/RSD and phantom limb pain, as well as neuropathic pain/neuropathy, possibly from diabetes or idiopathic neuropathy. One of the advantages of this approach is that a patient is typically given a trial period to see if the therapy benefits his or her pain. If the patient is pleased with the pain relief or functional improvement that he or she received, the patient can elect to have a long term option, which can last for years and years. Bellevue Pain and Wellness PLLC and Dr. Bowers have expertise in the approach, and Dr. Bowers has seen many patients show marked improvement.

Also on the cutting-edge, Spravato is an exciting new therapy, which is FDA approved for hard-to-treat depression. Spravato is related to ketamine, which has been used by doctors to treat depression, anxiety, PTSD, PMDD, chronic pain, and other mental health disorders. Nasal spray Spravato offers, however, an approach that does not require a needle and, because it carries FDA-approval, it may be covered by patient’s health insurance companies for treatment-resistant depression. Anesthesiology-pain management physicians, such as Dr. Bowers, are in a unique position to administer this treatment in a pain clinic setting, based on years of training and experience in operating rooms administering anesthetic medications, as monitoring after administration of the treatment is required.

Patients can request a new consultation at http://www.bellevuepainwellness.com/contactus or learn more about services offered by Bellevue Pain and Wellness PLLC at http://www.bellevuepainwellness.com, or by calling 425-998-7884.

Bellevue Pain and Wellness PLLC accepts Medicare and Medicare supplement plans as well as most major commercial insurance plans, including Blue Cross Blue Shield, Premera, Regence, United Healthcare, Aetna, Cigna, First Choice, and Humana. Bellevue Pain and Wellness PLLC also accepts Tricare.

Patients experiencing low back pain or neck pain, joint pain, such as knee pain, hip pain, shoulder pain, or have headache or migraine or who require evaluation for injections, such as back injections, joint injections, epidural injections, trigger point injections, knee radiofrequency ablation, back radiofrequency ablation can call this Seattle Bellevue area pain clinic for an evaluation by the doctor.

Dr. Bowers also blogs about common pain issues including migraine, lower back pain, RSD/CRPS and sciatica. You can read further into these blog posts below by clicking the link.

https://www.bellevuepainwellness.com/blog/migraine-pain-relief-in-seattle

https://www.bellevuepainwellness.com/blog/causes-of-low-back-pain

https://www.bellevuepainwellness.com/blog/the-hidden-pain-syndromes-complex-regional-pain-syndrome-reflex-sympathic-dystrophy

https://www.bellevuepainwellness.com/blog/sciatica-getting-to-the-root-of-the-issue-of-pinched-nerve-pain

If you work with News Media and are interested in interviewing Dr. Bowers, please reach out via our website at https://www.bellevuepainwellness.com/contactus.

CHICAGO (PRWEB)
May 12, 2020

Recent government orders have caused confusion among businesses, leading many owners to ask, “Can I re-open?” Medical spas are caught in a gray area and, unfortunately, in states such as Illinois, very little guidance is available.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed an executive order extending many executive orders until the end of May; this includes the “stay-at-home” requirements and closure of many “non-essential” businesses. Current Department of Health guidance is clear that elective outpatient procedures could resume on May 11 at ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and hospitals. On its initial reading, this appears to greenlight voluntary medical procedures, including aesthetic services such as Botox, lip fillers and laser resurfacing.

However, the guidance is very clear that these elective outpatient procedures may be resumed only at hospitals and ASCs. No mention is made of elective procedures at other facilities like medical spas.

Medical spas provide non-invasive (i.e. non-surgical) aesthetic treatments, such as Botox, lip fillers, and laser hair removal. The industry has exploded over recent years, generating more than $10 billion in revenue annually and employing more than 53,000 workers nationwide.

The lack of guidance is problematic because it shoehorns medical spas into an ill-defined no man’s land. Medical spas have not been deemed “essential” because they offer elective, non-essential medical procedures, but at the same time, they most definitely are not regulated as hospitals or ambulatory surgery centers.

“Unfortunately, the Department of Health has unwittingly created a situation where medical spas are stalled on the side of the road,” says Alex R. Thiersch, JD, founder and CEO of the American Med Spa Association (AmSpa). “While I’m sure it was unintentional, the drafting of the guidance leaves Illinois medical spas without guidance on how to proceed.”

The recent economic shutdown has brought the entire medical spa industry to a standstill, resulting in significant layoffs and disruption to a once-booming vertical.

Illinois medical spas had hoped to receive some guidance as to when they could begin offering services again, but the latest orders offer nothing of the sort to an industry that offers very desired—but medically unnecessary—aesthetic treatments.

“Medical spas are not covered under the wording of the current order, either as being allowed to open or as being directed to stay closed,” Thiersch says. “There’s a lot of confusion out there as to what to do and, unfortunately we’ve not been able to get any response or guidance.”

The recent executive orders allow salons and other related businesses to open at the end of May, but again, medical spas are not mentioned in this vertical either. This leaves medical spas wondering what to do, because opening in violation of the order could result in fines or discipline against the providers’ medical or nursing licenses.

For now, Thiersch says AmSpa is recommending that Illinois medical spas remain closed until further guidance can be obtained.

“The prudent thing to do is remain closed until we can get more clarity,” Thiersch says. “We are working hard to have the governor’s office provide guidance so we can start planning how to move forward, like the rest of Illinois businesses.”

About the American Med Spa Association (AmSpa)

The American Med Spa Association (AmSpa) provides business and legal resources to medical spas and aesthetic practices across the country. AmSpa’s events—including Medical Spa & Aesthetic Boot Camps and The Medical Spa Show—provide business and legal best-practices to anyone entering the medical spa space or looking to improve their existing practice. AmSpa members receive access to legal summaries of laws governing medical spas in their state, discounts, a robust and growing webinar library, and many other benefits. For more information visit http://www.americanmedspa.org, call 312-981-0993, or email info@americanmedspa.org

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