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MedPAC July 2022 Data Book: Health Care Spending and the Medicare Program

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The MedPAC July 2022 Data Book: Health Care Spending and the Medicare Program (208 pages) provides information on national health care and Medicare spending as well as Medicare beneficiary demographics, dual-eligible beneficiaries, quality of care in the Medicare program, and Medicare (..)

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Day 2 Notes from the 42nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

Sheppard Health Law

Markovich is worried that the healthcare system is losing the public’s trust – which will make it harder to effectively fix our system – while also not delivering the quality of care and accessibility needed by our population. For example, Christopher Riopelle, CEO of Strive Health, shared today that 42% of U.S.

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How Emergency Departments Can Drive Better Outpatient Care for Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke

HIT Consultant

JR Finkelmeier, Business Leader, ECG Solutions at Philips Today’s hospital emergency departments (EDs) face formidable challenges as they strive to deliver high-quality care to more and more patients. Without changes to care delivery, they could even diminish the quality of care. healthcare system.”

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More Evidence of Self-Rationing as Patients Morph into Healthcare Payors

Health Populi

Wolters Kluwer released a summary of a study this week, to be published in full in 2020, surveying 1,000 consumers (232 of whom had been a hospital inpatient in the past year) and 837 health care providers (a mix of physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators). BLS calculated that general price inflation rose 1.8%

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Consumers Want Help With Health: Can Healthcare Providers Supply That Demand?

Health Populi

Whether retail clinics, telehealth, or asynchronous physician visits via mobile health apps — consumers’ adoption of these sites, away from traditional brick-and-mortar doctors’ offices and ambulatory care clinics, has hovered around 10%, Oliver Wyman gauges in this report.

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Supporting the Continuum of Care for Serious Illness in Medicaid Managed Care

NASHP

Serious illness is “a health condition that carries a high risk of mortality and either negatively impacts a person’s daily function or quality of life or excessively strains the caregiver.”. As part of contract and systems oversight, states engage in a range of quality assessment and improvement strategies.

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6 Healthcare Trends Impacting Medical Practices in 2023

HIT Consultant

The ability to integrate RPM data directly into patient charts within EHR systems will bolster physician productivity and quality of care. Medical offices will offer comprehensive self-service capabilities that give patients more control over their healthcare experience.