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Overcoming psychosocial barriers for long-term success on home dialysis

Health Care Dive

As patient utilization of home dialysis grows, the nephrology community must focus on breaking down psychosocial barriers to ensure long-term success.

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Roe v. Wade ruling to have 'practical' impact on hospitals, AHA says

Healthcare It News

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Supreme Court rules in favor of HHS in Medicare disproportionate share payments case

Health Care Dive

The highest court upheld HHS' method of calculating Medicare payments to hospitals serving a high proportion of low-income patients, rebutting hospitals’ efforts to recoup potentially billions of dollars from the program.

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Use of Preventive Health Services Declined Among Commercially Insured People – With Big Differences in Telehealth for Non-White People, Castlight Finds

Health Populi

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. “As we enter the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, employers continue to battle escalating clinical issues, including delayed care for chronic conditions, postponed preventive screenings, and the exponential increase in demand for behavioral health services,” the Chief Medical Officer for Castlight Hea

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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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UnitedHealth's Optum looks to cut down on unnecessary lab testing

Health Care Dive

Optum says roughly 13 billion clinical lab tests are performed each year and 30% are unnecessary.

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Environmental Racism: How Historic Redlining Continues to Affect Communities

The Rand Blog

Starting in the 1930s, neighborhoods across America were redlined—marked on government maps as too hazardous, as in, too Black or too immigrant, for federal home loans. When zoning officials needed somewhere to put a new factory or freeway, those redlined neighborhoods were like a bullseye that they hit again and again.

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Forecasting the Personal Home Care Industry’s Netflix-Blockbuster Moment

Home Health Care

The personal care industry in the United States is full of wonder. Where its home health counterparts are generally built similarly, mostly tied to Medicare as a payer, the personal care market is full of companies with vastly different strategies. There are franchises, non-franchises, those that lean toward private-pay and those that lean toward government pay.

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Health services M&A slowed in Q1, but rebound anticipated

Health Care Dive

Private equity and corporate funding remains available and is driving competition for assets, especially for physician medical groups, home health organizations and long-term care facilities.

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How One Home Care Agency Is Using “Un-Retirement” Trend to Its Advantage

Home Health Care

The COVID-19 pandemic brought on a lot of changes to the American workforce. One slightly unexpected revelation that both employers and employees discovered was a full scale shift of priorities for many in the labor market. That was especially true in the home-based care space. Seniors Helping Seniors COO Daniel Jan told Home Health Care News that the pandemic gave his company a unique window into what employees want – and which ones could help establish a strong workforce.

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Sentara appoints new CEO

Health Care Dive

Dennis Matheis will assume his new role Sept. 1 with the nonprofit system that operates 12 acute care hospitals across Virginia and North Carolina and a health plan with over 800,000 members.

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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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Nomad Health Raises $105M to Expand Marketplace Beyond Travel Nurses

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Nomad Health , a leading digital marketplace for temporary healthcare jobs, today announced the closing of a $105M financing co-led by Adams Street Partners and Icon Ventures. New equity investor HealthQuest Capital committed the largest sum and was joined by existing investors Polaris Partners ,406 Ventures , AlleyCorp , and RRE Ventures , and new debt providers J.P.

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Report Finds Dual-Eligible Individuals Use Home Health Care at Higher Rates

Home Health Care

Individuals that are enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid — otherwise known as dual beneficiaries — utilize home health care at higher rates than those who are only beneficiaries of Medicare. That’s according to a recent report from ATI Advisory, with support from Arnold Ventures. The report is a profile of the growing population of individuals in the U.S. who receive both Medicare and Medicaid coverage.

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Olive Launches Autonomous Revenue Cycle (ARC) Suite

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Olive , the automation company creating the Internet of Healthcare, today launched its Autonomous Revenue Cycle (ARC) , the company’s flagship Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) suite of solutions. – Olive’s ARC is designed to handle tedious, time-consuming administrative tasks in the revenue cycle, allowing healthcare organizations to get paid quicker while reducing the risk of uncompensated care.

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Educational Effort to Increase Vaccine Adherence

Healthcare Leadership Council

Vaccines are integral to preventing diseases and reducing the chance of illness for individuals. They significantly lower the risk of severe illness and hospitalization, and even death, as well as preventing the spread of diseases. Vaccines have been critical in reducing the spread of several different diseases including COVID-19 and the flu. YourVaccinationGuide.org , created by the California Chronic Care Coalition and the Healthcare Leadership Council, provides reliable information regarding

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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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Siemens Acquires Brightly for $1.57B to Enhance Built Infrastructure

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Siemens has acquired Brightly , an asset management software company used by many schools, governments, hospitals and manufacturers around the world for a purchase price of $1.575B. – The acquisition will add Brightly’s well-established cloud-based capabilities across key sectors – education, public infrastructure, healthcare, and manufacturing – to Siemens’ digital and software know-how in buildings.

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Public Health: Got Sleep?

Bill Of Health

By Jack Becker. There are certain public health commercials that generations will always remember. For some, it’s the NHTSA’s “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” commercials. For others, it may be a “Think. Don’t Smoke.” commercial featuring a young Robert McElhenney. Younger generations have certainly seen “The Real Cost” campaigns , which have recently tackled vaping.

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Medidata Launches New Clinical Operations Technologies

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Medidata , a Dassault Systèmes company, is announcing technology enhancements that address key issues in clinical trial management and oversight. – These enhancements are to Medidata Detect and Rave CTMS (Clinical Trial Management System), which will improve both data oversight and reporting for sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) in two meaningful ways: how they comprehensively monitor their trial data, and how they visualize those data

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How Managing Chronic Conditions Is Streamlined with Digital Technology

Twistle

According to the CDC , 6 in 10 adults in the United States have a chronic condition and 4 in 10 adults have two or more. As that number continues to grow across the United States , it is creating significant challenges for both patients and their healthcare providers. On average, 1 in 20 people qualify as high-risk for poor health and high service usage due to the complexity of their health conditions and co-morbidities.

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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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Supreme Court Rules for Physicians in Blow to DOJ

Sheppard Health Law

In one of the final cases of a tumultuous term at the Supreme Court, the Justices ruled against DOJ in a decision that could have wide ranging effects not just for physicians and other prescribers, but for drug control laws more generally. In Xiulu Ruan v. U.S. , No. 20-1410 (Jun. 27, 2022), the Court considered the convictions of two physicians for violating the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 841 because, DOJ contended, and the respective juries found, that their prescriptions were “not

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HFMA: DeliverHealth Launches AI-Driven Autonomous Coding

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – DeliverHealth , a provider of technology-enabled solutions for hospitals, health systems and group practices launches artificial intelligence (AI) driven autonomous coding for a simpler, more efficient way to accelerate revenue cycle optimization. – The autonomous coding platform removes inherent complexities clinicians and care teams face while helping administration and operations obtain the realization of their EHR investments.

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OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion for Physician-Owned Medical Device Company

Sheppard Health Law

On April 25, 2022 , the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued Advisory Opinion No. 22-07 which evaluated the risk of fraud and abuse under the federal anti-kickback statute (“AKS”) posed by an arrangement involving physician-ownership of a medical device company. The opinion identified six characteristics of the arrangement which greatly reduced the risk of fraud and abuse.

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Readers Write: Payers Are Approaching a Moment of Reckoning on Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

HIStalk

Payers Are Approaching a Moment of Reckoning on Fraud, Waste,

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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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Upcoming Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The next Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum is scheduled for: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 PM at 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time (ET). Please call at least 15 minutes prior to the forum start time. **This Agenda is Subject to Change**. Opening Remarks. Chair – Brian Slater, Center for Medicare, CMS.

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Morning Headlines 6/28/22

HIStalk

PicnicHealth raises a $60m Series C to expand patient-centered real-world.

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OIG Report: Estimated 91 Percent of Nursing Home Staff Nationwide Received the Required COVID-19 Vaccine Doses/Estimated 56 Percent of Staff Nationwide Received a Booster Dose

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “The COVID-19 pandemic has hit nursing homes particularly hard. To reduce the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services amended the infection control requirements for nursing homes to include a requirement for nursing homes to ensure that staff received all of the required COVID-19 vaccine doses (i.e., a single-dose vaccine or all required doses of a multidose vaccine) except for in

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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 6/27/22

HIStalk

It’s that time of year, when I typically take a.

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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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Where Exactly Is the New Constitutional Line Between Abortion and Contraception?

Bill Of Health

By Einer Elhauge. The new Supreme Court decision in Dobbs overrules the right to abortion but repeatedly reaffirms the right to contraception. Whether that distinction can be justified under the Court opinion’s constitutional methodology has been the subject of much critique. Here, however, I wish to focus on a different question: just where is the new constitutional line between abortion and contraception after Dobbs ?

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HIStalk Interviews Jeff Brandes, CEO, Azara Healthcare

HIStalk

Jeff Brandes is president and CEO of Azara Healthcare of.

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Hands Over Troubled Waters

Healthcare Leadership

Blog by Joe Babaian. Today’s #hcldr is giving everyone a space to come to visit, drop in, breathe, share, and not feel pressure during this time of turmoil. You didn’t come here for punditry, more of the same, or instructions. Share, vent, grow, sit. It’s up to you. We are here because of the community and perhaps you’ll leave with some comfort and hope.