Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 20, 2023

Research has indicated that healthcare systems that connect patients to basic resources have observed improvements in population health metrics, fostered trust with their patient base, and experienced reduced hospitalization costs.

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NASHP

MAY 10, 2024

Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Centers (RHCs) Hospital-owned practices (eligible to participate only if the affiliated hospital is participating in the AHEAD hospital global budget for that performance year with an exception for hospital-owned FQHCs and RHCs).

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Medicaid Medicare Integration 52

Health Dialog

JUNE 16, 2016

The latest FDA rule , which will take effect August 8 th this year, extends regulations to include all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes (also called electronic cigarettes or electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)), dissolvables, hookah tobacco, cigars, pipe tobacco, and any novel or future tobacco products.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2023

“They are the leading cause of death among youths aged 1 to 19 years old and accounted for nearly half of the increase in all-cause mortality in 2020.” . “Firearms play a central role in this crisis,” one of the concluding paragraphs asserts.

Accountability 117

Accountability Hospitals Population Health Regulations 117

Bill Of Health

JULY 26, 2022

Undoubtedly there could be exciting near-term benefits for the 750,000 ONEM members as their Amazon Prime accounts are linked to their ONEM memberships, facilitating targeted Whole Food and Amazon Pharmacy coupons. Through this lens, it certainly appears that Amazon is targeting a compelling entry point into health care.

Primary Care 67

Primary Care Population Health Regulations Accountability 67

Lexis Nexis

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Health Digital Twin Technology Does More than Double Insights Into Individual and Population Health Risks Most of us don’t have a twin – or do we? Traditional twins account for about 3% of live births in the United States,1 but each of us has a digital twin. Health IT Analytics Population Health News.

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Population Health Regulations Accountability Healthcare 52

NASHP

DECEMBER 10, 2021

ACO Accountable Care Organizations. PH-MCO Physical Health Managed Care Organization. PHW Pandemic Health Worker. RAE Regional Accountable Entity. Rhode Island’s Medicaid Accountable Entities (similar to ACOs) may use funds earned through the Health System Transformation Project Incentive Fund to fund CHW services.

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Medicaid Primary Care Prevention Nursing 122

NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Yet, states often face barriers to integrated care including a lack of trust across agencies, privacy regulations that may hinder data sharing, and misaligned eligibility, enrollment, and referral systems. Aligning measurement, funding, and accountability with care coordination system quality improvement efforts.

Medicaid 98

Medicaid Integration Quality Improvement Accountability 98

NASHP

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (the Medicaid program administrator) does not specifically require the Regional Accountable Entities (RAEs), care coordinating entities contracted with Colorado’s Medicaid program, or other managed care entities to cover CHW services, nor does the Department pay for CHW services under FFS.

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Medicaid Primary Care Prevention Nursing 52

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

On one hand, data is the key to unlocking personalized medicine, research breakthroughs, and effective population health management. Healthcare organizations also have the added challenge of ensuring compliance with regulations like HIPAA that are designed to protect individuals’ sensitive information.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

percent of total reimbursements were based on population-based payments. By any account, FFS still reigns, even if APMs are growing. CMS has announced ambitious plans for new population-based ACO Reach, and higher penalties for providers remaining on MIPS/Fee-for-Service. However, only 6.7

Population Health 52

Population Health Pharmaceuticals Medicaid Healthcare 52

Accountable Care Doctors

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health care in America, and as of this writing, is still raging on. For years, accountable, progressive physicians have spotlighted the current system’s inefficiencies and incentives that create or sustain waste, fraud, and substandard health care.

Primary Care 59

Primary Care Integration Remote Care Population Health 59

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Thus, administrative complexity, which includes billing and coding waste, and physician time spent reporting on quality measures, accounted for the largest component of waste in American health care. Pricing failure as a waste-factor accounted for nearly another third of total waste in U.S. health care. medical spending.

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Pharmaceuticals Life Sciences Medicare Accountability 104

HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

Note that point estimates such as the mean or median can often be misleading on their own, as they do not convey the level of variability which can be very high such as in the Telemedicine and Population Health sectors. The Controlled Substances Act regulates the distribution of potentially addictive medicines like Adderall and Xanax.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 22, 2022

At a recent annual customer meeting, Xccelerate , a leader of one of the country’s largest health systems told me, “What we’ve come to appreciate is that the health of our patient population is 50% a function of their zip code, 30% a function of their genetic code, and 20% a function of their care.”.

Integration 52

Integration Healthcare Regulations Accountability 52

HIT Consultant

APRIL 7, 2023

Additionally, digitized health records have been used to make patient information more easily accessible, first to meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and HITECH mandates, and now, increasingly, to meet the 21st Century Cures Act ‘Final Rule’ mandate, requiring timely and standardized access to all patient data.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Life Sciences Integration Accountability 52

Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

Some of the names mentioned are Allscripts, athenahealth, Alibaba Health Information Technology Ltd., This week Equifax settled with the CFPB to the tune of nearly $700 million to address the losses of the 140 million consumers impacted by the breach, and judgments with regulators and States Attorneys General.

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