Social Work Strong: Covid-19 Pandemic

Attention : On April 3, 2020 Medicare reported revisions to telehealth place of service and modifier codes. The revisions will allow clinical and other providers to be reimbursed for telehealth services at the same rate as an in-person service. The Practice Alert, Attention Clinical Social Workers: Medicare Revises Telehealth Place of Service and Modifier Codes During COVID-19, provides information to members and is available at https://buff.ly/3b9xcyg

Today is National --a call to make screening & brief intervention part of your routine practice are an integral part of healthcare & should take the lead in the prevention of among women https://buff.ly/2xR52JN

Social Workers are essential workers.

worldwide are continuing to help clients—despite the great risk the pandemic poses to themselves and their families. asked those on the front lines helping people to share their stories. Here’s how they responded: https://buff.ly/3c0R6vK

The COVID-19 outbreak will likely disproportionately affect communities of color in both their health and their pocketbooks, compounding longstanding racial disparities in health and economic conditions, according to a new KFF analysis.

The COVID-19 Crisis Will Disproportionately Affect Communities of Color The COVID-19 outbreak will likely disproportionately affect communities of color in both their health and their pocketbooks, compounding longstanding racial disparities in health and economic conditions, according to a new KFF analysis.

Good morning and welcome to the “Social Work Advocacy During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic” virtual community event.

In day one of our event, we feature our first guest speaker, Mr. Ted Embry, LICSW, with a presentation “Normalizing the Abnormal.”

As we move forward into the event, our Jacksonville State University MSW students begin their presentations with:

 Session 1: 7 Ethical Considerations for Social Workers - Sam
 Session 2: Telehealth – Synetra and Kaitlin

If you have questions or comments during the event, please post them. We are ready to answer questions or provide links to references in our presentations.

Opportunity for ACTION.

Action Alert: Urges the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to immediately expand access for Medicare recipients to include audio-only devices during . Learn more and how you can help: https://buff.ly/2V8mbXu

Here is the agenda for the event that begins tomorrow. Please share.

The Network for Social Work Management has compiled COVID-19 Resources, which may be helpful to you or your organization.

This is a working document that we will continue to add to.

Please contact us at [email protected] if you have resources to add.

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q1qocTyuFqKsUa-1Ym2Ah0E3R9djHrf8At5VKt7RndM]

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