Developing Story: Virginia’s Behavioral Health Providers Under Siege

Other segments to appear during the live broadcast include the following:

• RAC Report: Healthcare attorney Knicole Emanuel reports our lead story on the mass terminations of behavioral healthcare providers in Virginia. Emanuel has also been at ground zero in Richmond this past week, representing the aforementioned association there. Emanuel, a member of the RACmonitor editorial board, is a partner in the Potomac Law Group.
  
  
• SDoH Report: Ellen Fink-Samnick, a nationally recognized expert on the social determinants of health (SdoH), has the latest news on this trending topic that is attracting significant media attention. Ellen will also conduct the Monitor Mondays Listener Survey.
  
  
• Monday Focus: Physician advisors should spend their time talking to doctors, not reviewing records and writing lengthy status determinations, according to Kathy Seward, MD, chief medical officer for qlēr Solutions Inc., returns to the broadcast to report on the consequences that arise when internal physician advisors merely sit behind their computer screens, to the exclusion of interactions with other physicians.
   
• Risky Business: Healthcare attorney David Glaser continues his reporting on the dramatic and long-awaited outcome of the recent court decision involving AsceraCare – a decision that appears to make it difficult to make a False Claims Act case based on physician judgment.
  
  
• Monday Rounds: Ronald Hirsch, MD, vice president of R1 RCM, will be making his Monday Rounds with another installment of his popular segment.