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CMS requires COVID vaccines for healthcare staff by Jan. 4

CMS requires COVID vaccines for healthcare staff by Jan. 4

November 04, 2021

Maya Goldman

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will require COVID-19 vaccines for all employees at Medicare and Medicaid-participating healthcare facilities by Jan. 4, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will require all employees at businesses with 100 or more workers to be vaccinated by the same date or get tested for the virus weekly, the agencies announced Thursday morning.

UnitedHealth to repay providers shortchanged for COVID vaccine administration

UnitedHealth to repay providers shortchanged for COVID vaccine administration

October 21, 2021

NONA TEPPER 

UnitedHealth Group has committed to reprocessing all of its commercial claims related to COVID-19 vaccine administration, after federal investigators confirmed the nation’s largest insurer paid “millions” of provider bills 40% less than the Medicare rate for inoculating patients.