ePolicy August 2021

Publication Date: Aug 3, 2021

ASCP Urges Healthcare Employers to Require Workers Receive COVID-19 Vaccine
Following ASCP’s participation in a call by the Council of Medical Specialty Societies for all healthcare employers to require their employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the federal Veterans Administration, the states of California and New York, and several cities and large corporations, such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft, are requiring their employees to be inoculated.
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CMS Releases Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released its Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule for CY 2022. Find out what it means for pathologists and the medical laboratory profession.
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ASCP Partners with University of Washington Center for Health Workforce Studies, Siemens on Workforce Study
ASCP and the University of Washington Center for Health Workforce Studies have released a groundbreaking study, Clinical Laboratory Workforce: Understanding the Challenges to Meeting Current and Future Needs, which proposes innovative strategies.
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ASCP Opposes VA Scope of Practice Expansion
The ASCP, the American Medical Association, and other medical societies are raising concerns about a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) project aimed at developing national practice standards for health professionals which might ultimately revive an earlier VA proposal to allow certified nurse practitioners to order, perform, supervise, and interpret laboratory tests.
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A COVID Reflection
Like many medical laboratory professionals, ASCP Medical Technologist Darryl Elzie, PsyD, MHA, MT(ASCP), CQA(ASQ), has worked tirelessly over the past year in the fight against COVID-19. The pandemic especially hit home when his uncle died from COVID-19, alone in a nursing home one year ago. “It has been particularly trying for those who were asked, who were required, to rise up and meet the unprecedented challenges of the times while suffering from the same burdens of fear, uncertainty, and physical ailments as those they were serving,” he writes in Lablogatory. He shares his reflections on what laboratory professionals have collectively experienced.
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