Health Care Dive
JULY 20, 2022
Anti-abortion laws have had a chilling effect on patient care, resulting in providers — concerned about the potential for legal action — delaying or denying in some cases life-saving services, doctors told a House committee.
Health Care Dive
JULY 20, 2022
Regulators are primarily targeting laboratory owners and operators who paid illegal kickbacks and bribes in exchange for patient referrals from doctors working with fraudulent companies.
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Bill Of Health
JULY 18, 2022
By James Toomey. In my paper Narrative Capacity (recently published in the North Carolina Law Review ), I argue, among other things, that the legal system’s recognition of personal decision-making should be a function of personal identity, not (as it currently is) of an individual’s momentary cognitive functioning. One of the arguments on this score is as follows.
Healthcare It News
JULY 18, 2022
While interoperability and price transparency rules are supporting a movement toward better access to data, the industry is still struggling to transition from sharing information to shared decision-making. Unfortunately, without accurate information embedded in their workflows, providers can’t have meaningful conversations with patients about care costs or covered options, which negatively impacts a patient’s ability to access care.
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p3care
JULY 19, 2022
Why RPA is the Future of the Medical Billing Industry? RPA is the future of the medical billing industry because with its use, there is a lesser chance of errors and mistakes in the claim compilation process and the speed of work gets faster. Here is a glimpse of what RPA medical billing services do. Automated Data Entry . In medical billing and coding , the most time-taking part is data entry.
Health Care Dive
JULY 18, 2022
HHS cited Oklahoma State University Center for Health Services for multiple HIPAA violations, including failure to disclose in a timely manner that patient data had been compromised.
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Healthcare It News
JULY 18, 2022
The HHS Office for Civil Rights on Friday said it has settled nearly a dozen investigations of allegations of HIPAA Right of Access Initiative violations. WHY IT MATTERS. OCR's enforcement actions, which include some substantial monetary penalties for the following healthcare providers, and compelled them to furnish patients with timely copies of their health records: Peoria and Canton, Illinois-based ACPM Podiatry , failed to provide a former patient with his requested medical records, acco
NASHP
JULY 21, 2022
State Caps on Respite Waiver Services Vary Greatly. Respite care is a valuable service for family caregivers that provides a break from the demands of caregiving. Most states cover respite services through Medicaid waivers that provide a range of home and community-based services, but many cap the amount of respite care covered. Many states put a numeric limit on respite care (set limit of hours or days per service year), but caps vary widely from waiver to waiver.
Health Care Dive
JULY 21, 2022
The all-cash deal for San Francisco-based One Medical comes after months of speculation about a potential acquisition, but Amazon as the buyer comes as a surprise.
Health Populi
JULY 20, 2022
How much do I love this media campaign from Walgreens , collaborating with the foursome The Old Gays who have a growing multi-million person fan base on TikTok? How much? A whole lot! Kudos to Walgreens for creating engaging, informative, and fun! content to learn about how people can benefit from using the company’s app … for, Ordering prescriptions (90-day supply).
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Healthcare It News
JULY 21, 2022
Amazon and One Medical announced their plans to merge on Thursday morning, in a $3.9 billion mega deal that would see the retail giant continue its ambitious string of healthcare acquisitions. Under terms of the merger agreement, which is subject to customary closing conditions, Amazon will acquire One Medical for $18 per share in an all-cash transaction.
The Rand Blog
JULY 18, 2022
The U.S. labor market is on track to hit a milestone this month or next: It will have recovered all of the jobs lost in the pandemic recession. But the pandemic recession and its recovery treated men and women differently, and treated women of color differently from white women.
Health Care Dive
JULY 22, 2022
The chain’s same-hospital adjusted admissions fell 5.3% year over year in the second quarter partially due to an April cybersecurity incident that impacted facilities and had a $100 million impact on adjusted EBITDA.
Home Health Care
JULY 19, 2022
Several digital health darlings that have raised tens of millions of dollars over the past few years are now scrambling to survive. Those focused on home-based care — for the most part — tend to be the exception. Economic uncertainty, regulatory pressure and other factors have contributed to a dip in digital health investment in 2022, at least compared to a record-setting 2021, when startups hauled in $29.1 billion in funding, according to Rock Health data.
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Healthcare It News
JULY 21, 2022
Health equity is one of the hottest topics in healthcare today. Removing structural inequalities from the delivery of care and improving care outcomes among women, people of color and LGBTQ people is a high priority for forward-looking health systems. Daryn Dodson is CEO and founder of Illumen Capital. His firm is an impact fund of funds addressing systemic inequity by reducing racial and gender bias in investing.
NASHP
JULY 22, 2022
Expanded Federal Investment in Home and Community-Based Services: State Approaches to Serve Children and Youth July 22, 2022 / by Zack Gould and Kate Honsberger. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated long-standing challenges for states in providing access to high-quality home and community-based services (HCBS).[1] Under the American Rescue Plan Act, the federal government expanded funding to states’ Medicaid HCBS programs, including a one-year, 10-percentage-point increase in federa
Health Care Dive
JULY 22, 2022
The Nashville-based hospital operator beat Wall Street expectations on revenue, which rose about 3%, but net income slipped nearly 20% compared to the same time last year.
Bill Of Health
JULY 21, 2022
By Carmel Shachar. Since June 24, 2022, I have spent a lot of time thinking through the post- Roe legal and ethical landscape, both publicly and privately. Very often, the discussion is centered about the impact that Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will have on patients whose health or lives are threatened by their pregnancies — such as people with ectopic pregnancies, missed miscarriages with a high risk of sepsis, and preeclampsia — and the physicians who care for them.
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Healthcare It News
JULY 19, 2022
Like many healthcare provider organizations, Groups, a value-based care provider of opioid addiction treatment, had to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic overnight. THE PROBLEM. In order to keep members safe, the organization made the decision to close all 120 of its clinics across the country and transition to 100% virtual opioid use disorder treatment services.
Briggs Healthcare
JULY 20, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted an update to the current (v1.17.1R October 2019) RAI User’s Manual. It includes the revision of an existing page and the addition of a new page. contains revisions to pages in Chapter 3, Section I, of the MDS 3.0 RAI Manual v1.17.1R that clarifies the need for a detailed evaluation and appropriate diagnostic information to support a diagnosis, such as for a mental disorder, prior to coding the diagnosis on the MDS,
Health Care Dive
JULY 21, 2022
Workers identifying as racial or ethnic minorities were 40% to 50% more likely to report having high childcare stress than White respondents, according to researchers.
Life Qi
JULY 19, 2022
What is Six Sigma? In this blog, we are going to be finding out more about Six Sigma - an improvement methodology created by Bill Smith , who is sometimes known as the ‘father of Six Sigma.’ Along with some colleagues, Bill Smith developed the methodology when he was at Motorola in the 1980s, based on Japanese quality methods that he had learned. This systematic approach to improvement focuses on reducing variance and eliminating defects and at its heart is the belief that in order to improve pr
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Healthcare It News
JULY 19, 2022
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Meditech
JULY 19, 2022
Conway Regional Health System may be a small hospital, but we have a big presence in our community. When given the choice, our patients want to stay close to home for their healthcare needs, rather than make the long trip to larger hospitals. It’s up to us to offer the comprehensive services that will meet those needs.
Health Care Dive
JULY 22, 2022
The hospital operator estimated the breach had a $100 million unfavorable EBITDA impact and said its systems have since been rebuilt.
HIT Consultant
JULY 22, 2022
What You Should Know: – Covid Clinic , a nationwide network of COVID-19 testing sites is expanding its core service offerings across the United States. – In partnership with Driven Care, patients will now be able to easily access treatment options, including antiviral prescription services and consultations, through its newly launched telemedicine services.
Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA
Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.
Healthcare It News
JULY 18, 2022
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Home Health Care
JULY 21, 2022
Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) announced plans on Thursday to acquire the primary care provider One Medical (Nasdaq: ONEM) for a price tag of $3.9 billion. . Once the acquisition closes, it will give Amazon a large primary care capability to potentially pair with its growing home-based care business, Amazon Care. Originally launched in 2019 as part of a pilot with Amazon’s Seattle-based employees, the Amazon Care model uses virtual and in-person visits from medical professionals to deliver “health care t
Health Care Dive
JULY 18, 2022
The effort to scale up vaccine distribution comes amid concerns about supply constraints with case numbers projected to increase.
HIT Consultant
JULY 20, 2022
Richard Marcil, Chief Customer Officer at ConversationHEALTH Simon Johns, Director of Medical Information and Marketed Product Safety at IQVIA. Life science organizations field a wide range of requests for medical information from the healthcare providers and patients they serve. Addressing these inquiries is important from numerous perspectives, from customer support and pharmacovigilance to post-market surveillance, medication adherence and patient outcomes. .
Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend
Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.
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