Bronson says it encourages employees to stay home when they are sick. But hourly workers say they can face disciplinary action for taking more than five sick days in a year.
Arianna Goss, a Southern Illinois University Carbondale senior health care management major, saw the effects of COVID isolation policies on long-term care residents and decided to do something about it, using virtual reality to bring the outside indoors.
Price transparency rule proves more complicated than originally thought
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(WSIL) -Federal law now mandates the hospital price transparency rule so consumers can compare and shop healthcare services.
The rule says that hospitals must make a public list of standard charges, and have a list of 300 shoppable services in a publicly available consumer friendly format.
But for the hospitals and their patients, it isn t as simple as it sounds.
When the Affordable Care Act was first introduced, hospitals were required to post their charge master, which is a hospital s list of fees for different services.
The Price Transparency Rule is considered the next step.