Health Care Dive
DECEMBER 2, 2022
A three-judge arbitration panel in Florida has awarded $10.8 million to TeamHealth after finding UnitedHealthcare underpaid the physician group’s clinicians from 2017 to 2020.
Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 2, 2022
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a bulletin to highlight the obligations on covered entities and business associates under HIPAA's Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules when using online tracking technologies. These tracking tools have caused a number of patient data security concerns and there are several class-action lawsuits, creating a new challenge for healthcare organizations.
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Health Care Dive
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Ambulatory healthcare services and hospitals have gained jobs consistently, adding about 300,000 and 130,000 jobs, respectively, since last November.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Digital health VCs eye healthcare workforce, cancer care as ripe for startups in 2023. hlandi. Fri, 12/02/2022 - 06:26.
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Health Care Dive
DECEMBER 2, 2022
The new system, Advocate Health, will operate 67 hospitals and more than 1,000 sites of care in six states.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Industry Voices—The changing digital health landscape. hlandi. Fri, 12/02/2022 - 11:20.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Advocate Aurora Health, Atrium Health close megamerger, forming the nation's 5th largest nonprofit system. pminemyer. Fri, 12/02/2022 - 16:26.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 2, 2022
What You Should Know: – Heart Test Laboratories , a medical technology company focused on saving lives by making an ECG a far more valuable screening tool through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), announced that it has entered into a multi-year collaboration agreement with Rutgers University (Rutgers). – HeartSciences and Rutgers will collaborate to develop AI-based ECG algorithms, which are expected to accelerate HeartSciences’ product development pipeline and further expand
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 2, 2022
KFF: More large employers and unions turn to Medicare Advantage to offer retiree health benefits. rking. Fri, 12/02/2022 - 16:04.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 2, 2022
What You Should Know: – A new report, “ Private Equity Firms Rebrand Prison Healthcare Companies, But Care Issues Continue ,” by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) focuses on healthcare company Wellpath and the regulatory risks that the company continues to take in local jails and prisons. – Wellpath is owned by private equity firm H.I.G.
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Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 2, 2022
HHS bulletin clarifies when pixel tracker use may violate HIPAA. pminemyer. Fri, 12/02/2022 - 15:21.
Home Health Care
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Although value-based payment models are trendy in the home-based care space right now, a new study shows that a majority of all health care payments are still based on fee-for-service. The study was conducted by the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN), which found that advanced value-based payment models are still the non-dominant form of payment in the U.S.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 2, 2022
CMS gives providers breathing room on looming advanced good faith cost estimates. rking. Fri, 12/02/2022 - 14:29.
Home Health Care
DECEMBER 2, 2022
This article is sponsored by SimiTree. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with SimiTree managing principal Eric Scharber to learn what home-based care providers can do to manage unprecedented wage growth, and how they can capture the workforce of the future: the millennials who by 2025 will make up 75% of the workforce, along with Generation Z behind them — with 50% of all workers as part-time employees.
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Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Oura launches employer-focused wellness arm. aburky. Fri, 12/02/2022 - 11:49.
Home Health Care
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Three years ago, Senior Helpers rolled out its Life, Independence, Function, Evaluation (LIFE) Profile assessment tool. The hope was to break the unfortunate – but typical – cycle of injury, hospitalization and rehospitalization. Since its implementation, Senior Helpers has seen success utilizing its LIFE Profile tool to stop what the company refers to as the “revolving door of hospitalizations.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 2, 2022
CDC awards $3.2B to public health departments. fdiamond. Fri, 12/02/2022 - 08:25.
Health Populi
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Rising costs are the #1 reason U.S. health consumers are avoiding or delaying health care, replacing concerns about COVID-19, based on survey research from Qualtrics. The company’s Healthcare Cost of Living survey research learned that 48% of U.S. adults chose to defer health care in 2022, split by. 31% of consumers skipping care due to cost concerns, and, 17% of people delaying care who had concerns about the coronavirus.
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Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Becerra decides to not extend mpox public health emergency set to expire next month. rking. Fri, 12/02/2022 - 16:39.
Health IT Analytics
DECEMBER 2, 2022
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Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Interview with Ben Albert, CEO & Cofounder of Upfront Healthcare. ncapone. Fri, 12/02/2022 - 14:51.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Will Switzerland to accept devices approved by FDA ? What is a superager ? Marijuana substitutes for opioids for cancer patients? What is ‘Brokenism ’? Can you use dating apps to fight STDs ? Quotation of the week: “Everything bad comes from change, but so does everything good” The Tablet.
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The Rand Blog
DECEMBER 2, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on protests in China amid the government's zero-COVID policy, the potential harm in negotiating with Russia, building more affordable housing in Los Angeles, and more.
Briggs Healthcare
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted Transmittal 11714 – Change Request 12924 on November 18, 2022. This Change Request contains no new policy. It improves the implementation of existing policies. The Home Health (HH) Grouper program contains various data validity edits that ensure consistent and accurate data is used when calculating payment groups on HH claims.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 2, 2022
What You Should Know: – RevSpring announced a new integration with Epic Willow that empowers staff to take payments for pharmacy transactions. – The Willow integration focuses on specific solutions for pharmacies and gives them more choice about how to take and process in-pharmacy credit card payments in the most streamlined fashion. Why It Matters.
Briggs Healthcare
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending November 20, 2022. Comparing the November 20 th data to the November 13 th data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate decreased 0.1% this week. Residents up to date with vaccines increased 0.8% – same as the previous week.
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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.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 2, 2022
What You Should Know: – Improving patient access to medical services remains a top priority for U.S. health systems as they grapple with economic uncertainty and the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has altered patient behavior, according to a new report from the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) and KLAS Research. – To address the challenge, health systems are investing in telehealth technology, patient portals and other digital tools, updating their organizational
Briggs Healthcare
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Five Star Preview Reports will be available on December 5, 2022. To access these reports, select the CASPER Reporting link located on the CMS QIES Systems for Providers page. Once in the CASPER Reporting system, select the ‘Folders’ button, then select ‘My Inbox’ or the Inbox beginning with ‘LTC’ and the state abbreviation followed by a facility ID.
Home Health Care
DECEMBER 2, 2022
As the prevalence of dementia continues to increase in the U.S., it’s likely that more home care providers will be in the business of caring for seniors with this condition. But focusing on dementia care is often easier said than done for agencies. Broadly, the volume of seniors living with dementia is expected to increase exponentially over the next 17 years or so.
Briggs Healthcare
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The December 2022 Quarterly Confidential Feedback Reports for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program are now available to download via the Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (QIES)/Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) reporting system.
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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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