Emergency Medicine Physician & Past President RI Medical Society @RIACEPnews @RIMedSoc @BrownEMres
Joined September 2018
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19 Dec 2021
How bad is it in your hospital? In your state?
Read interview with RI ACEP Prez, Dr. Dina Himelfarb in Boston Globe by Brian Amaral.
The storm is hitting now.
@RIMedSoc @AmerMedicalAssn @MarilynHeineMD
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Catherine Cummings MD retweeted
18 Oct 2021
Kudos, @texmed!
Gold carding is among prior auth reform principles of AMA 16 other orgs AND agreed-to by health plans.
But, insurers have largely not adhered to a statement they signed in 2018.
Stories of patient harm d/t prior auth delays were most compelling to lawmakers.
12 Oct 2021
Austin oncologist Debra Patt, MD, on the TMA-championed “gold card” law to curb prior authorization hassles. @AmerMedicalAssn ow.ly/ADGO50GpJWM
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Catherine Cummings MD retweeted
10 Sep 2021
I’ve practiced at the ICU bedside in WA, AZ and OH since Mar 2020, going with teams of skilled providers to areas of need.
Each time, we see the same story play out: lungs on the R ⬇️that could be saved by 2-doses of a vaccine.
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Catherine Cummings MD retweeted
12 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021
Pls RT! Sign up to the Rhode Island Stroke Symposium Sep 17th. An excellent line-up and exciting debates on acute stroke management, stroke prevention, and recovery (8 hours of stroke CME included). @StrokeAHA_ASA @BrownNeurology cme-learning.brown.edu/RIStr…
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13 Aug 2021
Busy is an understatement! Check the report to see what affects you in Rhode Island.
Advocacy matters.
Thanks to the Legislative Team and many, many RIMS members! @RIMedSoc
Get involved, be a member!
12 Aug 2021
2021 Legislative Report for the membership
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Catherine Cummings MD retweeted
12 Aug 2021
Unless I am reading this wrong, @GovDanMcKee today quietly, by executive order, re-upped the Covid "state of emergency" through September 1 that @GinaRaimondo 1st signed in March 9, 2020. And quarantine/isolation rules from March
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24 Jun 2021
Congratulations Dina!
Promoted
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New President of RI American College of Emergency Physicians
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Catherine Cummings MD retweeted
23 Jun 2021
Prescribed cefixime (gonorrhea treatment) to a patient on MassHealth (Medicaid).
Called back by pharmacist patient needs prior auth.
Alternative: patient must go to ER to get IM ceftriaxone!
Now wondering how many other Medicaid pts. not getting STI treated.
@CDCgov ⬇️
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22 Jun 2021
Is a massive gun range really needed on cape cod? Is this the best use of incredible land that there is? I don’t think so. @meganranney @GAGnoguns @capecodtimes
22 Jun 2021
Sponsored by 350 Cape Cod and allied organizations, the rally will take place at the Forestdale Elementary School, located at 151 Route 130. capecodtimes.com/story/news/…
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Catherine Cummings MD retweeted
16 Jun 2021
The best way to get honest feedback is to reward people for giving it.
If you make it hard to tell you the truth, people take the easy way out.
When people have the courage to be candid, you can reinforce it with gratitude and curiosity.
tedtalks.social/WLAdam @MellodyHobson
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Catherine Cummings MD retweeted
15 Jun 2021
"It seems ridiculous that a patient could bleed to death because of a lack of blood,” a RI Hospital trauma surgeon says.
Yet that's the situation doctors worry about with a shortage that @RIBloodCenter calls a "blood emergency" bostonglobe.com/2021/06/15/m…
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Catherine Cummings MD retweeted
15 Jun 2021
Prior authorization can cause unnecessary, potentially life-threatening delays for patients with neurologic conditions. I join @AANmember in urging Congress to pass #HR3173, the Improving Seniors Timely Access to Care Act. #FixPriorAuth #AANadvocacy #neurotwitter
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Catherine Cummings MD retweeted
19 May 2021
👏Look who rolled up her sleeve now that the Pfizer vaccine is approved for use in children age 12 and older. Aliza Chan (13 years old), daughter of RIDOH's very own Dr. Philip A. Chan, MD, proudly poses outside the Dunkin Donuts Center after her first dose of Pfizer vaccine!
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Catherine Cummings MD retweeted
19 May 2021
Drug price-gouging MUST stop.
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Catherine Cummings MD retweeted
6 May 2021
Gosh it has been a while, but I’m insanely proud of our efforts. Just in case you’re interested … Tonight I am participating in a gallery artist talk for our exhibition, Members: Stronger Together, which is currently on exhibit at #RICPA in #Providen… instagr.am/p/COi3-JNMxON/
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Catherine Cummings MD retweeted
3 May 2021
@RIHEALTH has done an amazing job during the COVID 19 crisis supporting EMS, fire and front line professionals so why would we remove their regulatory oversight for EMS? VOTE NO on RI House Bill 6282 and Senate Bill 860.
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16 Apr 2021
Crushing it and Us. Did they increase their mental health network or benefits, reduce prior authorization or referral requirements? Did they reduce premiums?
15 Apr 2021
This just in... @UHC crushed its yr. over yr. profits '21 over '20 by 42% in the insurance subsidiary, yet they continue to conduct wide spread ED physician coding/billing audits where they allow ZERO for ED care in the middle of global pandemic. beckershospitalreview.com/pa…
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Catherine Cummings MD retweeted
15 Apr 2021
Coming here to say that Picture a Scientist is now showing on @PBS @novapbs - this film should be required for everyone working in STEM pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/pict…
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