Health Care Dive
APRIL 3, 2023
The date Medicare’s hospital trust fund is expected to run dry has been extended by three years, but stakeholders continue to urge action from Washington to address Medicare’s long-term solvency.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 3, 2023
Almost every hospital's homepage is sending visitor's data to third parties, study finds dmuoio Mon, 04/03/2023 - 13:32
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Healthcare It News
APRIL 3, 2023
David Higginson will offer more detail in the HIMSS23 session "Leveraging In-House Machine Learning Innovations for a More Human Touch." It is scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 at 1:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. CT at the South Building, Level 1, room S104.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 3, 2023
Risk adjustment changes will now be phased in over three years, after payers pushed back on the proposed payment rule.
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 3, 2023
ACA benchmark premiums rise 3.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 3, 2023
Amar Desai is back at UnitedHealth as senior adviser to its CEO Andrew Witty.
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 3, 2023
The San Diego-based DNA-sequencing company, which also faces a challenge from European antitrust regulators, said it will appeal the FTC’s order.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 3, 2023
Open access or referral-only: Health systems take different approaches to food pantry programs agliadkovskaya Mon, 04/03/2023 - 12:05
Healthcare Leadership
APRIL 3, 2023
ChatGPT has captured world-wide attention. Entrepreneurs are using it to build businesses. Developers are using it to help write code. Even TV reporters are using it to help craft their on-air stories. The question is not whether ChatGPT will be used in healthcare, but how and where it will be used. It is only a matter of time. On the next HCLDR Tweetchat on Tuesday April 4 th at 8:30pm ET, I thought it would be interesting to discuss how generative AI and ChatGPT in particular could be used to
Home Health Care
APRIL 3, 2023
A new report from the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services could be the first step in further expanding the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model nationwide. Specifically, the committee believes that expanding PACE to more rural parts of the U.S. will help close gaps in long-term care. “[We] believe that PACE exemplifies integrated care and that expansion of the model in rural America would improve the fragmented state of long-term services and supp
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The Rand Blog
APRIL 3, 2023
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NASHP
APRIL 3, 2023
One in six employees in the United States is a caregiver. In New York, an estimated 4.1 million caregivers provide 2.68 billion hours of unpaid care annually, which, if paid for at the market rate, would cost $32 billion each year. To provide support to both the employers and the caregivers who are juggling employment and caregiving responsibilities, the New York State Office of Aging, in partnership with the New York State Department of Labor, implemented the Working Caregiver Initiative to ach
The Rand Blog
APRIL 3, 2023
Hydrogen (H2) plays a key role in the decarbonization plans of the European Union and the United States. Both have launched aggressive hydrogen strategies to increase the generation of H2 and deployment of related technologies. But these bold ambitions may face headwinds due to the acceleration of China's energy transition.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 3, 2023
Rahul Sharma , CEO at HSBlox Lynn Carroll, COO at HSBlox Despite holding the promise of delivering superior patient outcomes while lowering healthcare costs, many providers remain reluctant to embrace value-based care (VBC) reimbursement models. Progress toward VBC adoption hasn’t achieved its potential yet, hovering around 60% of all payment models from 2018 to 2021, with the remaining 40% comprised of traditional fee for service (FFS).
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Home Health Care
APRIL 3, 2023
Home care company leaders are increasingly being challenged to find creative ways to solve some of the sector’s most persistent issues, while looking to thrive in a space that has more eyes on it than ever. One thing that is on the mind of most home care CEOs is the way they’ve seen billing rates change over the past year or two. “I can speak just through the lens of Massachusetts right now,” Best of Care CEO Kevin Smith said last week during a panel discussion at Home Health Care News’ Capital
HIT Consultant
APRIL 3, 2023
Rajan Kohli, CEO at CitiusTech Healthcare What You Should Know: CitiusTech Healthcare Technology Pvt. Ltd., announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Rajan Kohli, an experienced technology executive as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Kohli joins CitiusTech from Wipro, a global leader in technology services and solutions, where he spent nearly three decades and was responsible for $6 billion in annual revenues.
NASHP
APRIL 3, 2023
State policymakers are presented with a unique set of challenges when addressing the provision of behavioral health crisis services in rural areas, including: Higher rates of unmet behavioral health needs Higher (and increasing) suicide rates Severe behavioral health workforce and resource shortages Longer distances between providers and patients Stigma To assist states in their work to improve rural behavioral health crisis services, NASHP hosted a 12-month State Policy Academy on Rural Mental
HIT Consultant
APRIL 3, 2023
Rahul Sharma, CEO of HSBlox Roughly $4 trillion is spent on healthcare annually in the U.S. Despite this massive expenditure, roughly 80% of health outcomes are attributed to social, behavioral and environmental factors , known as social determinants of health (SDOH). What has been far less clear is how providers and payers can fully harness SDOH data to proactively manage the health of patients and members.
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Home Health Care
APRIL 3, 2023
AccentCare – one of the largest providers of home health and hospice in the country – has formed a new joint venture with Memorial Hermann Health System. The partnership will “greatly expand access to care in the home throughout the greater Houston area,” according to a Monday press release. Specifically, the JV will combine the two agencies formerly known as Texas Home Health and Season Hospice & Palliative Care, as well as Memorial Hermann, into one home-based care entity.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 3, 2023
What You Should Know: – Global interoperability leader Lyniate has rebranded as Rhapsody in order to leverage the brand’s prestigious global recognition. Originally founded as Rhapsody in 2018, the company will continue to provide top-of-the-line interoperability solutions while maintaining its commitment to addressing data-sharing challenges and improving outcomes. – Going forward, the company will use the Rhapsody brand for its suite of interoperability solutions and will maintain
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 3, 2023
Medicaid redeterminations can officially resume.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 3, 2023
What You Should Know: – Today, Butterfly Network announced it received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for a groundbreaking AI-enabled tool named AI-enabled Auto B-line Counter that will help physicians assess adults’ lungs and accelerate providers’ abilities to make informed treatment decisions. Butterfly used data inputs from hundreds of sites across the country to train and develop its AI algorithms, offering potential for a broad and diverse range of age, gender, body mass index, ethnic
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Home Health Care
APRIL 3, 2023
This article is sponsored by HealthCare Quality Consulting. In this Voices Interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Dr. Monika Virk, MD, Founder of HOP into Homecare! to learn about using structured orientation and continued education to drive improvement in quality, reduce turnover and reduce cost in the home health industry. She explains how this need led to the creation of the HOP Into Homecare!
HIT Consultant
APRIL 3, 2023
What You Should Know: Today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that Dionysus Digital Health, Inc. (Dionysus), a digital health company engaged in the development of precise medical insights using a proprietary digital and epigenetic analysis platform, was selected to move to the next phase of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Technology (RADx® Tech) for Maternal Health Challenge.
Clearwave Inc
APRIL 3, 2023
Reading Time: 6 minutes A revenue-focused estimations strategy can help your dermatology practice increase collections by increasing point-of-service collections. One of the biggest challenges healthcare providers face is collecting payments from patients prior to rendering care. Once a patient leaves the office, in their minds, payment goes on the backburner.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 3, 2023
What You Should Know: – The medical coding market is estimated to secure a valuation of $ 6.7B in 2023 and is estimated to rise to $15.3B by 2033 at a CAGR of 8.6% during the 2023 to 2033 forecast period, according to a new Future Market Insights report. – The increasing availability of a large number of medical coding service providers and the rising adoption rate of advanced healthcare solutions like electronic health records (EHRs), revenue cycle management (RCM) software, and mob
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.
Baird Group
APRIL 3, 2023
Successful workplaces thrive on employee engagement. Leaders can effectively motivate and engage employees, by first understanding employees’ unique perspectives and preferences. What motivates one worker may fall flat for another. In their book, The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Work Place , Gary Chapman and Paul White share the five languages of appreciation.
Sheppard Health Law
APRIL 3, 2023
While government enforcement has traditionally been an indirect concern for private equity (“PE”) investors, such as looking at whether a target entity has been sanctioned or could be sanctioned in the future, the current trend in government enforcement has been to target PE firms directly. A few questions that PE firms should think about with respect to healthcare and life science investments: Does the firm distinguish itself from acquired companies, or does it use communal language like “we” w
Health Recovery
APRIL 3, 2023
As healthcare shifts towards value-based care, payors need to adapt to meet their member's needs. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) and telehealth are tools that are beneficial for payors as they help proactively manage their members across the care continuum and acuity spectrum. In this blog post, we will discuss the six reasons why telehealth makes sense for payors.
HIStalk
APRIL 3, 2023
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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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