Thu.Feb 02, 2023

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CMS issues 2% MA rate hike for 2024

Health Care Dive

Trade association AHIP said it was “concerned with the potential adverse impact of the rate notice,” especially in light of other recent regulation seeking to claw back overpayments to MA payers.

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Patient data and insights to enable value-based care and improve payment integrity

Healthcare It News

Value-based care is emerging in the healthcare ecosystem, largely due to its ability to offer benefits for everyone from patients to physicians to payers. With the power of data and analytics, users can track and improve patient outcomes and control healthcare costs while delivering better quality of care. Patient 360 can provide an optimal experience to patients and healthcare providers with first-rate payment integrity.

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More patients — especially younger ones — are switching providers, survey finds

Health Care Dive

About 30% of patients selected a new provider in 2021, up from 26% in 2017, according to a new report from Accenture. Gen Zers and millennials were six times more likely to switch providers than older people.

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White House unveils CancerX innovation accelerator, new funding for cancer screenings on Moonshot anniversary

Fierce Healthcare

White House unveils CancerX innovation accelerator, new funding for cancer screenings on Moonshot anniversary hlandi Thu, 02/02/2023 - 16:20

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Healthcare industry most common victim of third-party breaches, Black Kite finds

Health Care Dive

The report comes days after the HHS alerted the sector to a pro-Russian hacktivist group called Killnet, which recently updated its target list to include hospitals and medical organizations in several countries.

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Roundup: NZ names new Health Minister and more briefs

Healthcare It News

Infectious disease doc Verrall named Health Minister A parliament shakeup led by New Zealand's new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins saw Ayesha Verrall taking over health from Andrew Little, who is now handling defence. An infectious disease physician, Dr Ayesha Verrall became an MP in 2020 and since then, she has held the roles of associate Health Minister and Minister for Covid-19 Response.

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North Queensland GPs get access to Inca's care planning platform

Healthcare It News

The Northern Queensland Primary Health Network is deploying a shared care platform to GPs in North Queensland. The care planning platform, INCA, developed by the health IT company Precedence Health Care, enables health professionals to manage patient health data, create and monitor care plans, and share information digitally. This system allows the creation of Medicare-compliant GP management plans and team care arrangements, which can be automatically shared with the care team.

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CMS seeks to make quality measures more ‘universal’ in rollout of new program

Fierce Healthcare

CMS seeks to make quality measures more ‘universal’ in rollout of new program rking Thu, 02/02/2023 - 11:51

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Exploring the challenges and the benefits of VR in healthcare

Healthcare It News

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GAO: Data on use of Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits are lacking

Fierce Healthcare

GAO: Data on use of Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits are lacking pminemyer Thu, 02/02/2023 - 13:55

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Hurdle Launches At-Home HbA1c Diagnostic Test to Tackle Diabetes Crisis

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Hurdle , a diagnostics-as-a-service company launches an at-home Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) Test that enables adult consumers to take a simple at-home blood sample to screen and monitor for diabetes. – Developed by leading scientists, Hurdle’s testing technology offers leading accuracy and reliability and operates in partnership with labs that hold themselves to the highest testing standards.

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Bayer, EMD Serono announce 340B restrictions in wake of pharma's courtroom win

Fierce Healthcare

Bayer, EMD Serono announce 340B restrictions in wake of pharma's courtroom win dmuoio Thu, 02/02/2023 - 12:27

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Inclement Weather Update 2/2/2023

Healthcare Associates

Given the current weather predictions, all HCAT clinics will continue to see only virtual video appointments all day Thursday, Feb. 2. Pending weather, we plan to reopen for face-to-face appointments at 10 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 3. All patients who have an appointment scheduled and who will be affected by the weather-related closure will be contacted.

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Patients overestimate how well they recall diagnoses, care after discharge: study

Fierce Healthcare

Patients overestimate how well they recall diagnoses, care after discharge: study dmuoio Thu, 02/02/2023 - 16:44

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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Wildflower Health & HTC Launch Statewide Value-Based Maternity Care Model in NJ

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Wildflower Health and the Healthcare Transformation Consortium (HTC), a collaborative of independent health systems in New Jersey, announced a new partnership to launch a value-based maternity care initiative. The collaborative, which is powered by Wildflower Health, aims to serve as a national blueprint for approaches to closing maternal care gaps and improving equity. – As part of this initiative, Wildflower and HTC will also be working closely with O

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Why more granular racial, ethnic data could improve maternal outcomes

Fierce Healthcare

Why more granular racial, ethnic data could improve maternal outcomes fdiamond Thu, 02/02/2023 - 13:51

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Are health insurers providing fair access?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

How well did payers provide “fair” access policies? Based on an recent ICER report titled “ Assessment of Barriers to Fair Access “, the headline figures seem pretty good: Overall rates of concordance with ICER’s criteria were 70% for cost sharing of fairly-priced drugs, 96% for clinical eligibility criteria, 98% for step therapy, and 100% for provider restrictions At first glance, this seems like very fair access.

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Home Health Leader Gets 54 Months In Jail For Over $100M In Health Care Fraud

Home Health Care

The owner of a Brooklyn-based home health agency is being sentenced to prison for four and a half years for her role in defrauding Medicaid funds, which resulted in the loss of more than $100 million. According to Damian Williams , the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Marianna Levin engaged in a widespread fraud scheme where she and co-conspirators collected Medicaid funding for home health and personal care services that were never rendered.

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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A Tale of Two Wars and the Pitfalls of Success

The Rand Blog

Russia's war in Ukraine once again poses questions about how the United States prepares for conflict—not only which weapons it buys, but also how it envisions great-power wars in the 21st century. If the United States does learn the lessons of this war, then it may secure the U.S. military's edge for decades to come.

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Home Care Providers Are Getting Creative To Reach MA Beneficiaries

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Medicare Advantage (MA) only became a real opportunity for home care providers five years ago. That is when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced primarily health-related benefits, allowing for agencies to step in and provide personal care for beneficiaries on a limited basis.

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[ANSWERED] Why Was HIPAA Created?

Etactics

Today, 61% of healthcare data breaches are due to negligent employees. Healthcare administration is hard enough as it is. But, before HIPAA, it might as well have been the wild west. During this time, there were no federal regulations protecting health information. That’s hard to imagine, isn’t it? We can thank HIPAA as to why patient privacy is so important.

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Disclo Raises $5M for Health Disclosures & Accommodation Management Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Today, Disclo announced a $5M seed round led by General Catalyst to help employers maintain compliance by tracking, managing, and reporting on health disclosure + accommodation requests in the workplace. – Disclo acts as a third-party verifier, authenticating that a disability is legitimate and that the appropriate accommodation is required, eliminating some of the tension inherent in the process of asking for accommodations.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Ways EHR and Medical Billing Can Help Boost Your Practice Revenue

Best Medical Billing Company | Physicians Revenue Group, Inc.

prgseo February 2, 2023 Ways EHR and Medical Billing Can Help Boost Your Practice Revenue Calendars full of appointments and robust patient panels do not necessarily guarantee an increase in revenue. Your practice can see a certain number of patients/clients each day, and you can only increase this to a number your providers can handle. The good news is that the additional revenue you are looking for already exists.

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Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database  

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare AHRQ has established the Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database as a central repository for survey data from nursing homes that have administered the AHRQ patient safety culture survey instrument and choose to submit their survey data to the Nursing Home SOPS ® database.

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7 Key Value-Adding LOI Terms

Sheppard Health Law

A well-crafted letter of intent (“LOI”) adds value for the negotiating principals by helping to ensure the parties are in agreement on key deal terms before they spend significant time and money on diligence and definitive documents. It can also help the parties’ advisors understand the deal and prepare initial drafts of transaction documents that minimize the number of open issues to be resolved, thereby significantly reducing the time it might otherwise take to finalize the documents.

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2023 OIG Operation Nightingale Enforcement Action  

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On January 25, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) and our law enforcement partners launched a multi-state coordinated law enforcement action to apprehend individuals engaged in a scheme to sell false and fraudulent nursing degree diplomas and transcripts.

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

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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Why Prioritizing Patient Experience Is Essential for Small Healthcare Practices

HIT Consultant

Branden Neish, Chief Product Officer at Weave Rising inflation and a looming recession are causing small healthcare practices to tighten their belts and eliminate unnecessary costs. Still, too many healthcare leaders are divesting where it may end up hurting them in the long run: digital solutions. Digitization and automation can be a lifeline for healthcare practices.

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January 2023 Update: Appendix B – RAI 3.0 User’s Manual  

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The January update of Appendix B to the RAI 3.0 User’s Manual contains changes to the list of State RAI Coordinators, MDS Automation Coordinators, RAI Panel members, and CMS locations and contacts.

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M&A: Science 37 Acquires Vault Health’s Life Sciences Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Science 37 Holdings, Inc., the industry-leading Metasite announced it has acquired life sciences platform from Vault Health , a national leader in remote diagnostics and COVID testing , to further enhance clinical trial workflow orchestration and data interoperability capabilities of the Science 37 platform. – The asset purchase accelerates Science 37’s existing development plans for workflow features such as advanced scheduling and investigational product tra

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Earn CEUs with MPA's FREE Compliance & HIPAA Webinars!

Healthcare Performance

Sign up for MPA's FREE Compliance & HIPAA webinars: All webinars start at 11:00 a.m. CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima Plan a Successful Compliance Week in 2023 February 22, 2023 90 minutes 1.8 CCB CEUs 1.5 NAB CEUs Your compliance program is only as strong as the culture behind it - and the knowledge and buy-in of your team.

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

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.