Health Care Dive
APRIL 29, 2022
The report calls for improved oversight of MA and urges the CMS to update audit protocols and issue new guidance on medical necessity reviews performed by the plans.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 29, 2022
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 29, 2022
Bristol Myers paid $13 billion to acquire the drug's maker, MyoKardia, and expects it to become a blockbuster. But a tricky dosing regimen, as well as safety concerns, could challenge the pharmaceutical giant's lofty forecast.
The Rand Blog
APRIL 29, 2022
For decades, elected officials brushed off harm reduction as a viable option for reducing the harms of drug use over concerns of enabling drug consumption. But now, these strategies are front and center, spoken aloud, from the largest podium in the land, and during primetime. What caused this historic about-face?
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 29, 2022
Political ire around direct contracting that came to a head earlier this year was rooted in a "real lack of understanding," one CEO of a physician group said Friday at NAACOS' spring conference.
NASHP
APRIL 29, 2022
Five States’ Progress toward Expanding Access to PACE Services April 29, 2022 / by Neva Kaye. The Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) was one of the first programs to deliver fully integrated care to Medicaid beneficiaries who are frail elders. The goal of PACE is to maintain members in the community as long as safely possible, and, although all members must qualify for nursing home care to join the program 95 percent of all members live in the community.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Briggs Healthcare
APRIL 29, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the nursing home data for the week ending April 17, 2022. Comparing the April 17 th data to the previous April 10 th data shows these changes: Resident vaccination rate remained unchanged from the previous week (same as past 5 weeks) Residents with booster doses increased by 0.4% this past week Staff vaccination rate increased 0.2% from previous week Staff with booster doses increased by 0.8% this past week An
Health Care Dive
APRIL 29, 2022
Wright Lassiter will succeed Lloyd Dean, who announced his intent to retire last year, setting off a nationwide executive search.
Healthcare Associates
APRIL 29, 2022
Sciatic Nerve Pain Relief At Night. Sciatic nerve pain can make it difficult to get a good night’s sleep, especially during flare-ups. Fortunately, several sleeping positions can help you find relief. Here are sleeping positions that can give you sciatic nerve pain relief at night, along with other tips that can help you feel more comfortable while you sleep.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2022
What You Should Know: – Flare Capital Partners , a Boston-based healthcare technology venture capital firm closes its third fund with $350M, which follows up on its prior two funds raised in July 2019 and the inaugural fund raised in April 2015, respectively. – The most recent fund, establishes Flare Capital Partners as one of the largest, independent, early-stage venture capital firms dedicated to healthcare technology.
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Home Health Care
APRIL 29, 2022
Aging in place is difficult for many Americans, but it’s even more difficult for those living in rural areas. Things are additionally hard on in-home care providers in such parts of the country. To ensure access to home health services, the Medicare program has historically provided a rural add-on payment to agencies, giving them slightly more resources to deliver care and compensate staff.
Bill Of Health
APRIL 29, 2022
By Marissa Wagner Mery. Long COVID exposes an often-unacknowledged facet of disability: that one is far more likely to develop a disability than be born with one. Estimates suggest that, at present, approximately 10 – 20 million Americans are now afflicted with the array of debilitating symptoms we now call Long COVID , which include fatigue, shortness of breath, and cognitive dysfunction or “brain fog.”.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 29, 2022
Progress and pitfalls of bundled payment. Direct-to-employer contracting. Are bad online reviews an indicator of quality? Racial disparities and fear of COVID. Coverage after the public health emergency ends.
The Rand Blog
APRIL 29, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on why it may be time to consider a peacekeeping operation in northern Ukraine, supporting veterans with traumatic brain injury, a new response to synthetic opioids, and more.
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Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 29, 2022
Not surprisingly, the impact is significant. That is according to a study by Malone et al. (2022) , estimated using a difference-in-difference design with data between 2001 and 2018. Specifically, they find: Of the 1759 nonmetro counties in our study sample, 109 experienced a hospital closure during the study period. Relative to the nonclosure counterfactual, closures significantly decreased labor force size, on average, by 1.4% (95% CI: [?
Health Policy News
APRIL 29, 2022
By Rawson Pino and Margot Thistle As COVID-19 became a national pandemic in the United States in early 2020, states across the country scrambled to respond with public health strategies.
NASHP
APRIL 29, 2022
State Approaches to Expanding PACE April 29, 2022 / by Neva Kaye. The Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) provides a comprehensive, fully integrated, package of Medicare and Medicaid services to frail elders who require a nursing home level of care. Members’ care is managed by an interdisciplinary team that includes physicians, nurses, transportation providers, and others.
Health Policy News
APRIL 29, 2022
This month’s edition of Health Policy News provides a retrospective view of COVID-19, while also looking forward to what is to come as policymakers, states, businesses, and others aim to.
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HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2022
What You Should Know: – HSBlox , a technology company empowering healthcare organizations with the tools and support to deliver value-based care (VBC) successfully and sustainably, today announced Release 3.5 of its CureAlign platform. – CureAlign enables healthcare organizations to administer value-based programs, including network build-out, contract administration, permissioned data exchange and payment.
Briggs Healthcare
APRIL 29, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted recent Nurse and Non-Nurse Staffing Data sets as well as Employee Detail Data on April 27, 2022. The Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Nurse Staffing and Non-Nurse Staffing datasets provide information submitted by nursing homes including rehabilitation services on a quarterly basis.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2022
What You Should Know: The Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging today released a report to identify actionable recommendations to better integrate health and home care through technology. These recommendations were gathered from a convening of stakeholders representing health care, technology, government and policy, research and academia, philanthropy, advocacy, and community-based organizations.
Briggs Healthcare
APRIL 29, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. This 4-page document acknowledges challenges to and provides strategies for preventing the spread of COVID-19 among long-term community residents living with dementia. Strategies used to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are especially difficult for residents with dementia living in long-term care communities, such as nursing homes, certified Alzheimer’s units or memory care facilities.
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KHN
APRIL 29, 2022
More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose. Vaught was prosecuted this year in an extremely rare criminal trial for a medical mistake , but the drug mix-up at the center of her case is anything but rare.
KHN
APRIL 29, 2022
More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose. Vaught was prosecuted this year in an extremely rare criminal trial for a medical mistake , but the drug mix-up at the center of her case is anything but rare.
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