Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As at-home healthcare becomes more tech-driven—think wireless biosensors and connected blood pressure cuffs—it creates more logistical challenges for providers. | Geisinger's pilot program with Best Buy's Geek Squad resulted in quicker access to care, better adherence to care plans and more positive outcomes for chronic care patients, the organizations said.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The survey from the Commonwealth Fund comes after regulators finalizing a rule this spring that aims to cut back on deceptive or misleading advertising for MA plans after beneficiary complaints more than doubled between 2020 and 2021.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

PBMs used solely by insurers with which they’re affiliated with cannot be considered viable options for other nonaffiliated insurers, the AMA says.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Virtual reality made significant improvements in patient experiences. It has turned resistors at Hoag Hospital into champions, says Thomas Hutchinson, executive director of digestive health and experiential reality, and neurosurgeon Dr. Robert Louis.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

GoodRx is teaming up with Walgreens to offer further discounts on 200 drugs at its pharmacies. | GoodRx is teaming up with Walgreens to offer further discounts on 200 drugs at its pharmacies.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Details are scant on what a final package could specifically include. But the goal is to scale results Best Buy and Geisinger have achieved at that system to other operators, according to a Best Buy Health executive.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The partnership, which Walgreens plans to launch in ACO REACH in 2024 and Medicare Advantage in 2025, is the retail giant’s first significant move in the healthcare space since CEO Roz Brewer departed earlier this month.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) proposed 2.8% pay bump for outpatient facilities is in the firing line for providers, who broadly urged the agency to reconsider its annual | The market basket increase and productivity adjustment floated for the coming year's outpatient reimbursement "does not capture" hospitals' higher expenses and recent underpayments, several industry groups wrote in public comments.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Cerner is facing “near-term headwinds” as the health software vendor transitions customers to cloud subscriptions, management said on a recent earnings call.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The past few years of ballooning healthcare wages have hit hospitals and health systems hard but appear to be leveling off, Fitch Ratings analysts wrote in a recent report. | Should the trend of recent months hold, hospitals should be able to "gradually" address their costs and increase profitability in the coming years, analysts wrote.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The settlement comes after state regulators levied a $55 million fine against the health plan last year for alleged operational deficiencies, including failure to address a backlog of over 9,000 prior authorization requests.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

What You Should Know: Bold , a Los Angeles-based healthy aging platform raises $17M in Series A funding led by Rethink Impact , with participation from Samsung Next and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health , Khosla Ventures , GingerBread Capital , and Primetime Partners. The latest funding, bringing its total amount raised to $27M.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) is growing its at-home care efforts once again, this time through an expansion of its partnership with Geisinger Health System. In July of 2022, Best Buy began leveraging its Geek Squad to help Geisinger better care for chronically ill patients in the home. Geisinger’s ConnectedCare365 initiative was first launched in 2021, and since then, over 1,1000 patients have been cared for via remote patient monitoring.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Constance Sjoquist, Senior Healthcare Analyst with RazorMetrics Large employers report that the biggest threat to self-funding medical coverage is the increasingly high cost of pharmacy claims. In their annual Health Benefits Priorities survey, MBGH found that employers consider pharmacy costs extremely problematic. Ninety-one percent of employers cited million-dollar treatments approved by the FDA, and 89% pointed to specialty drug spending as a top threat.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

One-half of clinicians working in the U.S., doctors and nurses alike, are considering leaving their current role in the next two to three years. That 1 in 2 clinicians is significantly greater than the global 37% of physicians and nurses thinking about leaving their roles in the next 3 years, according to the report Clinician of the Future 2023 from Elsevier.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Dana D’Ambrosio, M.S., BCBA, LBA, Director, Clinical Development at RethinkFutures In a society where so many want more—more money, more time off, more adventure—few stop to question the logic of insatiably wanting “more.” Perhaps, no place does the consequence of wanting more negatively impact people than with healthcare treatments. Medication use, for example, shows clear dose-response curves, where over-use can have fatal consequences ; negative consequences and death also can result from too

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) believes that its home-based care and primary care capabilities will unlock value and create long-term earnings power for the company. Karen Lynch – CVS Health’s CEO – outlined that vision at the Morgan Stanley’s 21st Global Healthcare Conference Tuesday. “As we step back and as we looked at all of our businesses, what we said was we needed to extend into other areas for growth,” Lynch said.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Rich Steinle, Carium CEO Despite positive proof points, the expansion of virtual care and remote patient engagement strategies – including RPM – continues to be hampered by misconceptions among potential users and misalignment of financial incentives among providers and payers. It’s time to take a look at some of the myths holding back the adoption of virtual care and remote patient engagement tools and limiting progress toward achieving the interconnected goals of the Quintuple Aim.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) is continuing to expand its health care services capabilities. The latest investment comes through a partnership with Pearl Health, a provider enablement company that will help accelerate the expansion of value-based care under the Walgreens umbrella. “Most primary care providers want to transition from a traditional fee-for-service model to a value-based care model that focuses on patient outcomes, but they often lack the tools, insights and access to

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

That is the finding from a Shih et al. (2023). Their first finding is that white bagging and brown bagging are not yet that common, with the exception of supportive care. However use of “bagging” does save money…for payers at least. Adjusted mean insurance payments PPPM [per patient per month] were statistically significantly lower for drugs distributed under bagging vs buy and bill ($7405 [95% CI, $7111-$7700] vs $9547 [95% CI, $9471-$9622]; P  < .001); …Adjusted mea

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Meditech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

By harnessing the power of big data, all levels of leadership can gauge their progress towards achieving organizational goals and make more informed data-driven decisions. However, studies show that less than 60% of healthcare organizations' data is being used to make intelligent business decisions. To meet the growing demand for healthcare data, leveraging powerful visualization tools, such as MEDITECH’s Business and Clinical Analytics (BCA) solution , can help deliver actionable information th

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Health Recovery

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

HRS Announces Continuous Monitoring to Ease Clinicians' Workload, Promote Better Patient Outcomes and Drive Cost Savings for Organizations HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Health Recovery Solutions (HRS), the KLAS leader in remote patient monitoring (RPM), announces the launch of its early adoption client program for continuous monitoring capabilities.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The post Why not educate the person experiencing pain? Improving opioid prescribing for youth in hospital settings appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

What You Should Know: Substance use disorder has far-reaching impacts across society, and healthcare workers are not immune. In some cases, healthcare worker addiction can lead them to use prescription drugs intended for patients or steal them to be sold for personal benefit. A recent survey sponsored by Invistics, acquired by Wolters Kluwer Health earlier this year, found that despite 98% of healthcare executives agreeing that drug diversion occurs in hospitals, nearly four in five healthcare e

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home-based care organizations continue to evolve. As they do, they’re becoming more pre-acute and embracing preventative care. Traditionally, providers step in after an acute event has already occurred. This has slowly begun to shift, as providers realize that if they are already in the home, they can prevent some of these events or outcomes.

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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.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Rich Steinle, Carium CEO Despite positive proof points, the expansion of virtual care and remote patient engagement strategies – including RPM – continues to be hampered by misconceptions among potential users and misalignment of financial incentives among providers and payers. It’s time to take a look at some of the myths holding back the adoption of virtual care and remote patient engagement tools and limiting progress toward achieving the interconnected goals of the Quintuple Aim.

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Nordic

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The current healthcare landscape is challenging as costs continue to rise across the industry, with experts predicting an additional seven percent increase next year. Additionally, hundreds of hospitals , especially in rural communities, are at serious risk of closing their doors permanently, which not only impacts access to quality care but a primary employment source for the community.

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Healthcare Leadership

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As we announced last week , we are winding down the HCLDR tweetchats. Our final Tuesday night chat will be October 31st. It has been a fantastic journey with this community. Joe, myself, and I suspect all former HCLDR hosts, are proud of how inclusive and supportive this community has become. Even though the tweetchats are coming to an end, we hope to keep the community going in another form.

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Nordic

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Clinical care delivery is increasingly dependent on technologies that have increased in number, variety, and complexity. Cloud technologies have become the backbone, supporting the drive to innovate. Cloud-hosted EHRs can optimize clinical efficiency, enhance organizational security, and ultimately have a positive effect on a health system’s bottom line.

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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.