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HHS has partnered with UnitedHealth Group to provide the rapid payment via Optum Bank and the Automated Clearing House account information on file.

The guidance is meant to remove financial barriers for receiving coronavirus tests and health services and encourage antibody testing.

The funding is unlikely to fully compensate providers for the revenue hit caused by cancelled elective surgeries and by labor and PPE costs.

Actions included reducing operating room volume by 80% to ensure adequate capacity to care for an anticipated influx of coronavirus patients.

For each person admitted into intensive care, costs, on average, could exceed $30,000, according to an AHIP study.

After so many hours wearing this form of personal protective equipment, skin can tear, increasing the likelihood of infection.

The guidance is meant to empower local hospitals and healthcare systems to rapidly expand their capacity to treat coronavirus patients.

Walgreens Find Care now includes a COVID-19 risk assessment, powered by Microsoft Healthcare Bot on Microsoft Azure.

The challenge of population health is the ability to integrate and share the data for health systems to act upon the information.