Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Patient Rights Advocate concluded that some hospitals owned by Ascension and HCA Healthcare are omitting rates for medical services from files made public under new federal rules.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Montana has unique challenges in providing healthcare to its widely dispersed population of just over 1 million people. THE PROBLEM. Out of 56 counties in Montana, 55 are designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), limiting access to both urgent and routine medical visits. The cost of travel and long distances between healthcare providers and patients are commonly cited reasons for patients to delay or avoid medical care.
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Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Effective Oct. 17, Amar Desai will lead the new CVS unit, and will work to link CVS’ portfolio to develop payer-agnostic products and services.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 10, 2022
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Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 10, 2022
A closer look at the nuances of monitoring licenses and multi-state medical license compacts.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 10, 2022
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Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2022
When Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico on September 18, electricity went out across the island. It was a reminder that recovery from 2017's Hurricane Maria is far from complete. RAND researchers discuss the difficulties Puerto Rico is still facing.
Healthcare Associates
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Six Reasons you Can’t Breathe Through Your Nose. Breathing is supposed to be easy, breezy. After all, it’s natural. Breathe in. Breathe out. The average person takes up to 22,000 breathes every day. You probably don’t even think about it — until you can’t breathe through your nose. From nasty viruses and allergies to anatomical anomalies, here’s six on-the-nose reasons you can struggle with a stuffed-up nose.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Hatem Zeine, Founder, President and CTO of Ossia. One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that healthcare facilities need to scale up operations quickly to respond to a public health emergency and that doing so is a significant challenge. In the early days of the pandemic, hard-hit cities like New York and others had to set up mobile hospital units or access additional capacity through military hospital ships. .
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Western support for Ukraine's future security could depend in part on how the war ends and the extent to which Moscow remains threatening. Ukraine can better protect its security through robust, tangible security ties with the West.
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Home Health Care
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Ahead of the annual enrollment period Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations have been offering a peek into what benefits they’re offering seniors in 2023. Notably, many will give their beneficiaries access to home-based care services. Now, ATI Advisory is sharing exactly how many have made these services available to seniors. The number plans offering in-home support services has grown exponentially over the years.
Life Qi
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Kaoru Ishikawa is considered the ‘Father of Japanese Quality’ for his creation of innovative developments in quality management. He is famous for creating the fishbone diagram, a type of ‘root cause analysis’ which we still use in Quality Improvement (QI) to help make decisions and create actions. Ishikawa is a hugely respected figure in Quality Improvement, having been instrumental in developing quality initiatives in Japan.
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 10, 2022
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. Addus acquires another home health provider. In August, Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) said that it was looking to make some larger acquisitions in the back half of this year and in 2023. It’s not totally clear whether this is one of them, but on Oct. 3, the company announced that it had acquired the Chicago-based Apple Home Healthcare. .
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2022
The talks to reinstate the Iran nuclear deal have been dragging on for 18 months. But the negotiations are not about very much; the general contours of the original agreement still hold. As the clock keeps ticking, though, it gets harder to revive it. At some point, the juice won't be worth the squeeze.
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Home Health Care
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Home health providers could potentially see a speedier prior authorization process thanks to legislation moving through Washington, D.C. While the changes in the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act are welcomed, many experts in the space feel like more work needs to be done in order to have a more efficient care delivery process. “In addition to requiring electronic prior authorization, the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act requires MA plans to publicly share what their prior
Healthcare ECONOMIST
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Interesting graphic from the Visual Capitalist. Unsurprisingly health care spending increases on both a relative and absolute scale as people age. HT: The Browser.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Virtually every closed-door meeting I have had in the U.S. with a client group in the past several months has had a line item on the agenda to brainstorm the impact and opportunity of care-at-home, hospital-to-home, or Care Everywhere. This has happened across many stakeholders in the evolving health/care ecosystem of suppliers, including hospital systems, health plans, grocery chains, retail pharmacy, consumer technology, digital health and tech-enabled providers, pharma and medical supply comp
Healthcare ECONOMIST
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Ben Bernanke , Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig. The award was given for the laureates role in improving our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises. The Nobel website summarizes their contribution as follows: For the economy to function, savings must be channelled to investments. However, there is a conflict here: savers want instant access to their money in case of unexpected outlays, while businesses and homeowners need to know they will not be
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The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there has been ongoing deliberation about how long Putin will remain in power. But the West should not assume a change of leadership would result in an end to the war, at least in the short term, as Putin's war could very well continue without Putin.
Briggs Healthcare
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This (16-page) study updates ASPE’s previous analysis of the associations between COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths among Medicare beneficiaries and COVID-19 vaccination rates, with full year data through the end of 2021. The study uses a combination of person-level Medicare claims and county-level vaccination data to estimate reductions in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths among Medicare beneficiaries associated with C
HIStalk
OCTOBER 10, 2022
I spent the majority of this weekend on staff.
Sequence Health
OCTOBER 10, 2022
A Health Information Exchange, or HIE, is a secure network that lets healthcare providers share patient data. This is important because it enables doctors to access a patient’s medical history, regardless of where they are treated. Without an HIE, doctors would have to request this information from the patient’s previous doctor, which can be time-consuming and inconvenient for both the doctor and the patient.
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HIStalk
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Post-pandemic, Telemedicine startups are evolving — this one just raised.
Briggs Healthcare
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Friday, October 7, 2022, AHCA/NCAL issued this press release (same title as this blog). “The Biden administration is expected to issue a federal minimum staffing mandate for nursing homes. As the long term care sector continues to face a historic labor crisis , experts are questioning how the proposed mandate would address staffing shortages without resources or support.
Bill Of Health
OCTOBER 10, 2022
By Matthew Chun. Business is bustling for biotechnology and biomanufacturing. On September 12, 2022, President Biden signed an executive order , launching a “whole-of-government approach to advance biotechnology and biomanufacturing.” And two days later, he backed it up with a national summit and a $2 billion spending plan. But who stands to benefit from this large commitment of federal money?
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