Fri.Nov 10, 2023

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Report: High wait times, poor reimbursement drive autism diagnosis delays

Fierce Healthcare

Nearly two-thirds of specialty centers that conduct autism evaluations have wait times longer than four months, according to a new report. | Nearly two-thirds of specialty centers that conduct autism evaluations have wait times longer than four months, according to a new report.

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Walgreens lays off 5% of corporate workforce; CMO Kevin Ban departs

Health Care Dive

Yet another round of job cuts and executive turnover at Walgreens comes as the pharmacy chain looks to cut costs following poor financial performance.

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Instacart, Door Dash now allowing users to buy health items using HSAs, FSAs

Fierce Healthcare

As cold and flu season truly sets in, major home delivery platforms are now allowing customers to purchase products using their health benefits. | As cold and flu season truly sets in, major home delivery platforms are now allowing customers to purchase products using their health benefits.

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Optum Rx moves 8 insulins to preferred formulary status as pressure mounts on PBMs

Health Care Dive

The drugs shifting to preferred status — meaning they’ll be available for under $35 per month in out-of-pocket costs — were previously on tier three or excluded altogether from the pharmacy benefit manager’s formulary lists.

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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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Blue Shield of California expands maternal health partnership with Mahmee

Fierce Healthcare

Blue Shield of California is expanding its partnership with Mahmee as it aims to improve maternal health among its members. | Blue Shield of California is expanding its partnership with Mahmee as it aims to improve maternal health among its members.

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Cano Health reduced its workforce by 21% in Q3

Health Care Dive

The struggling primary care chain, which is still seeking a buyer, has exited from several state markets.

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HCA outlines plans to expand market share by 2030

Health Care Dive

The hospital operator said Thursday it is investing billions to expand emergency services and high acuity business lines.

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Building patient trust led to 20,000 consenting to iRAD

Healthcare It News

The integrated Real-time Active Data now facilitates the sharing of the personal health records of 20,000 consenting patients across the South Western Sydney Primary Health Network, says digital health and data manager Nick McGhie.

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What are CY 2024 Policy Updates For MIPS Reporting? (Part I)

p3care

High time in the MIPS reporting season! Kudos to all MIPS participants who retained their eligibility for MIPS 2023 throughout. Soon, the 2023 performance period will end, and clinicians will enter the reporting phase. However, moving one step forward, CMS has now released the PFS final rule for MIPS 2024. So, it’s high time for eligible MIPS participants to gear up for PY 2024 and revise their strategies.

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Chutes & Ladders—Octave names quartet of leaders

Fierce Healthcare

Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.

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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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Medicare Advantage Patients Attempting To Utilize Home Health Care Are Hitting More Roadblocks

Home Health Care

Traditional Medicare beneficiaries are finding they have solid access to home health care. Medicare Advantage (MA) members utilizing home health care, on the other hand, are having a much harder time accessing care. That’s according to data in the newly released 2023 Home Care Chartbook from the Research Institute for Home Care (RIHC). The RIHC report is a detailed overview of the home health landscape.

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Amazon Prime Launches One Medical Healthcare for $9 a Month

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Amazon Prime members can now get high-quality, convenient care from One Medical for $99 per year, saving $100 on the annual membership fee. The new One Medical membership covers unlimited access to 24/7 on-demand virtual care and in-person and remote primary care services. – Prime members can add up to five additional memberships, each costing just $6 per month (or $66 annually—up to $133 off the standard fee).

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Home Health, Hospice M&A Is Historically Slow As 2023 Comes To Close

Home Health Care

Home health and hospice agencies – especially quality ones – remain highly valuable assets. But thus far, through nearly all of 2023, M&A trends have not reflected that. There were only two transactions in hospice in the third quarter, and just four in home health care. Those were both record low totals, according to a new report from the M&A firm Mertz Taggart.

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Can employer-based health insurance finance coverage of gene therapies?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

According to a recent paper by Doshi et al. (2023) , the answer is ‘ yes ‘! Why do people think otherwise? Many people are concerned that there may not be a sustainable way for the private group insurance market, particularly in small self-insured firms, to cover gene therapies? If a firm—particularly a smaller, self-insured firm—gets one or two patients who needs gene therapies, this could ruin their profitability for reasons that have nothing to do with the underlying expense.

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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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The 2023 Health Consumer Update from Kaufman Hall – Measure What Matters (To Patients)

Health Populi

While there are barriers preventing health systems and care providers from adopting consumer-focused measures for patient experience, those who have deployed these metrics can provide solid role models for advancing consumer-centered care. Welcome to Kaufman Hall’s eighth annual study culminating in the 2023 State of the Healthcare Consumer Report.

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Some Home-Based Care Providers Are Expanding Service Lines, Others Are Doubling Down On Status Quo

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership To expand into new service lines or stand pat, that is the question. Some home-based care providers believe expansion is necessary, while others are doubling down on their current offerings. Choice Health at Home is a provider that falls into the former category. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content.

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Questions

Healthcare ECONOMIST

What is the Bayh-Dole Act ? What does the word liberal mean? Who should make IP rules in health: nations, WHO or WTO ? Who Will Care for Older Adults ? What’s going on in Copenhagen next week ?

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Medical Technology – Recent Decisions at the Federal Circuit and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Sheppard Health Law

Note: First published by ALM / Law.com in The Intellectual Property Strategist I. INTRODUCTION Recent developments at the Federal Circuit and the USPTO can inform evolving patent strategy on medical technology. In one case, the Federal Circuit invalidated a patent relating to catheter insertion technology. In addition, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) considered subject matter eligibility of medical technology inventions in two decisions issued less than a year apart.

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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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Servicedesk Engineer Mitch Dobbe | TPSC

Patient Safety Blog

Meet Servicedesk Engineer Mitch Dobbe! As you know, we like to share sneak peeks behind the scenes at The Patient Safety Company. This month we held an interview with Servicedesk Engineer Mitch Dobbe! Interested in the tasks of a Servicedesk Engineer at TPSC? Read on below!

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AI’s Executive Order and Its Key Healthcare Implications 

Sheppard Health Law

Last week’s historic executive order (EO) on the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) is teeming with urgency, both in caution and optimism, to keep pace with the technological advancements. The EO addresses the duality of AI—its promising utility and disconcerting risks—across a range of public and private sectors, including healthcare.