Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2024
Humana primed the pump last week for a disappointing fourth quarter call, and its stock again dropped Thursday morning as the company posted a $541 million loss. | Humana primed the pump last week for a disappointing fourth quarter call, and its stock again dropped Thursday morning as the company posted a $541 million loss.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 25, 2024
A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Appeals Court have dismissed claims from a New York medical group that the law amounts to an unconstitutional seizure of their property.
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Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2024
The U.S. faces a growing shortage of neurologists, creating care "deserts" around the country, forcing patients to wait longer and drive further to receive care. | Digital health company Isaac Health launched in 2022 to provide a virtual brain health and memory clinic platform with the goal of improving access to constrained brain health services.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 25, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit on Thursday to block Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based Novant Health from expanding its grip on healthcare in the state, warning a buy would increase costs.
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Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeking feedback on how to increase transparency around Medicare Advantage and improve data capabilities. | CMS initiated a request for information period Thursday to receive data on all aspects of the Medicare Advantage program including prior authorizations, value-based care and vertical integration.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 25, 2024
The voluntary resources serve as a “step forward” as the agency looks to propose enforceable standards, HHS Deputy Secretary Andrea Palm said in a statement.
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Health Care Dive
JANUARY 25, 2024
The legislation would remove the requirement that Medicare beneficiaries be seen in-person within six months of receiving mental healthcare via telehealth.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2024
Below is a round-up of payer-centric news for the week of Jan. 22, 2024 | This week, California health plans formed a coalition to address long-term PPE shortages, Mark Cuban's drug company announced a new partnership with Livinity, popularity rises for Colorado's public option plans and more.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 25, 2024
During an annual address, executives outlined plans to build sustainably — with technology investments — after the operator posted a profit last year.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2024
Four in five clinicians believe it’s important for their hospital to address climate change and that doing so is aligned with their organization’s mission, a new
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The Rand Blog
JANUARY 25, 2024
Directed energy weapons offer a more cost-efficient means of dealing with fast-proliferating threats. If the technology can be matured, such systems could tip both the military and economic calculus of modern warfare in their users' favor.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2024
2023 was the biggest year for healthcare Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings in the past half-decade, according to a new research report from Gibbins Advisors. | There were 79 bankruptcy filings across healthcare-related sectors last year, 12 of which were hospitals. Those are both up from 2022's 46 total and two hospital filings, according to a new report.
Home Health Care
JANUARY 25, 2024
One of the ways that home health providers are tackling access to care challenges is by focusing on delivering care to home health deserts. Broadly, home health deserts are low-income communities that are the hardest to staff and where people who need home health care are unable to access it. A home health desert can be a rural or urban area, according to Dan Savitt, president and CEO of VNS Health.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2024
Regulators are pumping the brakes on Novant Health’s deal to buy two North Carolina hospitals from Community Health Systems (CHS), citing concerns of higher healthcare costs and little incentive fo | The transaction for Lake Norman Regional Medical Center, Davis Regional Medical Center and other assets would give Novant Health 65% control of the inpatient general acute care services market in North Carolina's Eastern Lake Norman Area, the federal regulator said.
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Home Health Care
JANUARY 25, 2024
Unlike in other health care sectors, front-line home health employees have always been a part of the remote workforce. It’s an aspect of the job that many of them enjoy, but home health providers have always tried to make them feel like they were connected to the broader culture of the organization. That’s generally what brick-and-mortar offices were used for.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2024
Elation Health, a company that developed electronic medical record technology for primary care clinicians, is expanding its partnership with Surescripts to bring more transparency around prescripti | Elation Health integrated Surescripts' real-time prescription benefit tool directly into its EHR to give providers access to patient-specific medication coverage and cost data during patient medical visits.
Cloud Blogs
JANUARY 25, 2024
Microsoft Industry Clouds deliver technological innovation to help organizations build resiliency and accelerate digital transformation that supports their goals. New capabilities within the 2024 release wave 1 will be available from April 1, 2024, to September 30, 2024. Release plans are published on Microsoft Learn and updated regularly as capabilities, products, and services are released.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 25, 2024
What You Should Know: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center a nd CVS Accountable Care, part of CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS), today announced the creation of an accountable care organization (ACO) to improve the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries by Ohio State providers in central Ohio. This coordinated approach to delivering care is centered around each patient’s unique needs and emphasizes preventive wellness and proactive treatment of chronic conditions.
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Health IT Analytics
JANUARY 25, 2024
A machine learning model outperformed standard tools for predicting death and other serious complications in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
JANUARY 25, 2024
How to use Chat GPT. Caregivers: ‘I Wish I Had Known That No One Was Going to Help Me ’ 4 health issues for the 2024 Presidential Election. Issues with HDHPs. Measles outbreak in the UK.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 25, 2024
Sri Tella, Sr. Director of Technical Product Management at McKesson In an era where the precision and timeliness of healthcare delivery are paramount, digital transformation is not a business want, but a business requirement. This transformation must span the entire continuum of care, from the patient to the payer, to ensure seamless healthcare delivery.
HKLaw
JANUARY 25, 2024
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have started a new effort to educate the public about the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA).
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HIT Consultant
JANUARY 25, 2024
What You Should Know: – Isaac Health , a rising leader in digital brain health, has successfully closed an oversubscribed $5.7 million Seed funding round led by Meridian Street Capital and B Capital , bringing together prominent players like Primetime Partners, Co-Found Partners, VU Venture Partners, and AirAngels. – This crucial funding round empowers Isaac Health to accelerate their mission by expanding their innovative brain health provider platform. advancing technology for impro
Health Policy News
JANUARY 25, 2024
Health Policy News January In this month’s edition of Health Policy News, we continue our Focus on Caregiving Series with a deep dive by our subject matter experts on the.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 25, 2024
What You Should Know: WellTheory, a first-of-its-kind virtual solution for the 50 million Americans suffering with autoimmune disease, today announced its first employer partnership with Maven Clinic, the world’s largest virtual clinic for women’s and family health. Beginning today, Maven Clinic employees now have free access to WellTheory’s platform that offers evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle coaching to reduce autoimmune symptoms.
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.
Health Policy News
JANUARY 25, 2024
Building the Caregiving Workforce by Supporting Family Caregivers As we continue our Focus on Caregiving series, we examine the role of family members as part of the “caregiving workforce.” Reliance.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 25, 2024
What You Should Know: Culmination Bio, a data and technology company combining clinical and biospecimen data, announced an R&D collaboration with Merck, known as MSD, outside the United States and Canada, initially in the area of autoimmune disease. Under the terms of the master agreement, Merck will have access to both clinical (Electronic Health Records, labs, medications) and paired biospecimen (tissue and blood) data from several cohorts of various sizes and qualifications.
Health Policy News
JANUARY 25, 2024
Revisiting Pending Medicaid 1115 Re-Entry Demonstration Waivers and Where They Stand Last spring, Health Policy News highlighted the major components of California’s Section 1115 Re-Entry Demonstration Waiver, the first waiver.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 25, 2024
What You Should Know: – In a move to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes in the Denver metro area, Integrated Physician Network (iPN) and Lumeris announced a strategic partnership today. – The iPN and Lumeris partnership marks a significant step forward for value-based care in Denver. By combining their resources and expertise, these two organizations are poised to deliver high-quality, patient-centered healthcare to the communities they serve.
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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