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WellBe Senior Medical CEO On Demonstrating Value To Payers In The Home

Home Health Care

Kang is the former CMO of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Home health agencies existed then, and it was covered by Medicare. It basically changed home health from a fee-for-service per-diem model into a bundled or capitated model, similar to a hospital DRG episode. I was at CMS from 1995 to 2002.

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Overcoming the Healthcare Staffing Shortage Through Back-Office Automation

HIT Consultant

A recent study indicates that clinical staffing costs have increased by approximately $17 million annually for a 500-bed hospital. It is not sustainable when many hospitals are still operating at negative margins. To continue advancing patient care, Medicare and the U.S. The staffing shortage has begun to touch patients, too.

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Recognizing the Role of Caregiver with Melissa Fisher | E. 79

Vie Healthcare

Episode Introduction Melissa shares the four challenges faced by caregivers today, calls on doctors to recognize family and patients as a ‘’unit’’, and highlights the ‘’unpaid, untrained, overwhelmed, burned-out’’ reality of caregiving. Melissa explained the difference when a doctor finally included her in decision-making. ‘’I

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WelbeHealth’s Michael Le On The Future Of Innovative At-Home Care Models

Home Health Care

It all started with, in Le’s words, the image of “the revered small-town doc with his black doctor’s bag doing house calls.” Really that vision of the revered small-town doc with his black doctor’s bag doing house calls was what attracted me to medicine in the first place. Now, Le is on to his next chapter.

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Optimizing Healthcare for Heart Disease with HeartFlow | E. 62

Vie Healthcare

20:30 The importance of data in making treatment decisions Lauren said the data supporting HeartFlow helps to ensure doctors don’t put stents into people who don’t need them. ‘’A And there is a risk, there really is a risk of doctors putting stents in people who don’t need them. ” Remember nothing.

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Taking Back The Business of Healthcare with Preston Alexander| E. 67

Vie Healthcare

Not for a hospital, it wouldn’t be that much, but whatever it is. $14 So, I launched myself into understanding more about healthcare from a business perspective, because I’m not a clinician, not a nurse or doctor, don’t have any training. Not for a hospital, it wouldn’t be that much, but whatever it is.

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Exposing Healthcare Fraud with Jonathan Tycko| E. 68

Vie Healthcare

And as you know, obviously a huge percentage of healthcare spending is funded through Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, the VA system, and these are all programs that are covered by the False Claims Act. Not one of those people who comes from a family of doctors or anything like that either. What goes into all that?”