Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
As the No Surprises Act took full effect, the number of in-network claims processes grew notably, according to a new analysis from FAIR Health. | As the No Surprises Act took full effect, the number of in-network claims processes grew notably, according to a new analysis from FAIR Health.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The big question coming out of the health insurance earnings season is how much elevated utilization among seniors will carry over into 2024.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Siftwell Analytics, a company providing insights to community health plans to help improve member outcomes, has secured $5.8 million in the company's first venture capital funding round. | A digital health company built to help community plans utilize their data more efficiently raised nearly $6 million in a recent funding round.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Living with diabetes is challenging. So is treating it, with a myriad of factors determining or influencing a person’s health. THE PROBLEM In addition, those living with diabetes must take care of themselves by performing daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly tasks to stay ahead of the chronic condition. These include: Checking their feet Reading food labels Walking after meals Taking medication(s) in the right dose at the right time Meeting with a dietitian to assure they have the right nu
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Halfway through its 2024 fiscal year, Ascension has turned its operations around to the tune of about half a billion dollars. | The Catholic giant logged recurring operating margins of 3% for the quarter and 0.3% for the midway point of its current fiscal year.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The attack against the University of Vermont Medical Center in 2020 cost the hospital millions of dollars and limited operations for weeks.
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Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
China Medical University Hospital is leveraging Google Cloud's generative AI to support its doctors in providing cancer care. A formal collaboration between CMUH and Google Cloud was signed in December last year to use MedLM , a healthcare-specific gen AI based on the large language model, Med-PaLM 2. MedLM, which intelligence has been proven comparable to licensed doctors by scoring 85% on the MedQA-USMLE (United States Medical Licensing Examination), has become the foundation of the CMUH&#
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Accountable care organizations are calling on the feds to increase participation of long-term and post-acute care providers in ACOs and to better incorporate episodic-based payments. | Payers, providers, ACO leaders and advocacy groups convened to discuss how to improve long-term and post-acute care participation in ACOs. These were their recommendations to CMS.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
From the fourth quarter of 2021 to the first quarter of 2022, in-network care as a percentage of all national claim lines increased 2.3%, the nonprofit found.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
A year after hitting the pause button on a multi-billion-dollar health tech project at the Department of Veterans Affairs, federal lawmakers continue to have serious concerns about pharmacy softwar | A year after hitting the pause button on a multi-billion-dollar health tech project at the Department of Veterans Affairs, federal lawmakers continue to have serious concerns about pharmacy software issues that could impact patient safety.
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The Catholic health system attributed its results to increased patient volumes and successful cost-cutting initiatives.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Community Health Systems (CHS)’ higher inpatient volumes and reimbursement rates couldn’t outpace rising costs, dragging the for-profit’s fourth-quarter earnings well below its performance in 2022. | The 71-hospital for-profit health system highlighted same-store volume growth but fell victim to higher supplemental reimbursement program costs, increased rates for outsourced medical specialists and other costs.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
If a senior or homebound patient is eligible for home health care, there are a number of caregiving professionals who can open a case and begin an assessment. Those include nurses, home health aides, physical therapists and others. One profession that is not on that list is an occupational therapist. However, a new proposed bill could change that. The Medicare Home Health Accessibility Act — which has bipartisan support — would establish occupational therapy (OT) as a qualifying Medicare home he
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Teladoc offered a weaker-than-expected forecast for 2024, projecting slower revenue growth as the telehealth market has become crowded with digital health players. | Teladoc offered a weaker-than-expected forecast for 2024, projecting slower revenue growth as the telehealth market has become crowded with digital health players.
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
But operating expenses — including increases in supply and wage costs — continued to pressure the nonprofit.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
In the U.S., where the healthcare sector emits significantly more carbon emissions than the aviation industry, hospitals are starting to think about ways to address their climate footprint.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Legacy Care Partners Acquires Superior Home Health and Superior Hospice of Texas Legacy Care Partners – which also owns Advanced Home Care – has acquired Superior Home Health and Superior Hospice of Texas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We extend a warm welcome to Superior Home Health and Superior Hospice into the Legacy Care Partners family,” Legacy Care Partners President and CEO Brian McDonald said in a statement. “This
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Brightside Health has announced new payer partnerships with major plans to provide members with mental health care. | Mental health provider Brightside Health bolstered its partnerships with Medicare, Medicaid and Medicare Advantage contracts throughout the country.
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HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
What You Should Know: – Siftwell Analytics , a healthcare technology company founded by industry veterans, announced today the successful closing of its seed funding round totaling $5.8M. – This significant investment, led by AlleyCorp, Arkin Digital Health, Tau Ventures, and The Charlotte Fund, underscores the growing demand for Siftwell’s innovative approach to population health management.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Oula, a maternity center that combines obstetrics with midwifery, clinched $28 million in series B funding to open new clinics and offer more services. | Offering a hybrid of in-person clinic care and virtual care, Oula has an office in Brooklyn and Manhattan and plans to open a third in Morningside Heights in partnership with Mount Sinai West later this year.
Advanced Data Systems
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
As managers, owners and principals at cardiology practices plan for the coming quarters this year, the flow of revenue will be a major consideration. Accordingly, they will be looking at revenue cycle management or RCM trends to help prepare for 2024. With that in mind, here are cardiology RCM trends that appear to be emerging this year.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Boston-based Mass General Brigham, a 15-hospital system, has reported an $81.6 million operating gain on revenue of $5 billion | Boston-based Mass General Brigham, a 15-hospital system, has reported an $81.6 million operating gain on revenue of $5 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2024, ending Dec. 31.
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HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Nerivio is indicated for dual-use in people 12 years and older What You Should Know: – Theranica , a leader in neuromodulation devices for migraine and other chronic pain conditions, announced today that Highmark Inc. has included its Nerivio Remote Electrical Neuromodulation (REN) wearable in its commercial coverage policy for the acute and preventive treatment of migraine. – Highmark’s coverage decision is a pivotal moment for migraine sufferers within their network.
Bill Of Health
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
By Samuel Hatfield Psilocybin and MDMA were recently rescheduled in Australia for clinical use, leading many mental health professionals to question how psychedelic therapy will work in practice. As part of a research team at the University of Sydney, I recently interviewed as number of experts in the field, with the aim of developing a comprehensive taxonomy of matters relating to psychedelic therapy that are or could be regulated.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
What You Should Know: – MEDITECH , a leader in healthcare information technology solutions, announces the release of its redesigned Expanse Pathology solution. This innovative tool, part of the company’s comprehensive – Expanse EHR , empowers pathologists with cutting-edge technology to tackle increasingly complex cases and collaborate seamlessly with other healthcare providers for improved patient care.
The Rand Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Cooperation between allies could be especially important to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). But co-developing AI applications with other nations faces many challenges as rapid advancements in the technology outpace policies and procedures designed during the industrial age.
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.
Nordic
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The innovation of technology and processes inherently requires not only trial and error but a non-negligible amount of risk. This presents a unique challenge for the healthcare industry, which both needs innovation and has very little room for risk or error. To move the industry into the future, leaders must adopt a nuanced approach that simultaneously appreciates governance and its goals and is willing to take calculated risks to fail fast and fail forward.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
In 2023, Right at Home’s caregiver count checked in at 45,453 across the company’s vast franchise network. The company is now hoping to add at least 26,000 caregivers to meet the current demand for care services by the end of 2024. The impetus behind Right at Home’s hiring initiative was the increased growth in client populations that the company was seeing, Nikki Holles, vice president of strategy for Right at Home, told Home Health Care News.
Advanced Data Systems
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
In the intricate world of healthcare administration, revenue cycle management (RCM) stands as a critical process that ensures financial stability and operational efficiency for healthcare providers. As the landscape evolves, many healthcare organizations are considering outsourcing RCM services to streamline operations and enhance profitability. However, like any strategic decision, outsourcing RCM comes with its own set of pros and cons that necessitate careful consideration.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
What You Should Know: Wellin5, the premier provider of online counseling, proudly announces a new partnership with Kintsugi, an AI mental health technology leader. This collaboration comes at a time when Wellin5 has successfully navigated the turbulent economic landscape and challenges in the health tech space to thrive and bring this vital partnership to life, setting a new standard in mental health care for over 50,000 clients based in Canada and the USA.
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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