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Some patients still pay for ACA-mandated free preventive care, study finds

Health Care Dive

Researchers in the study found that more than a third of patients incurred out-of-pocket expenses on the day of their ACA-mandated free preventative medical care service.

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Communication failures, policy noncompliance fuel jump in reported patient safety events, Joint Commission finds

Fierce Healthcare

Communication failures, policy noncompliance fuel jump in reported patient safety events, Joint Commission finds dmuoio Wed, 04/05/2023 - 16:35

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Cano board members resign, call for CEO’s termination amid ‘decimated’ stock and ‘crippling’ debt

Health Care Dive

Cano Health, a value-based primary care provider for seniors, has found itself embroiled in a boardroom drama after three of its board members publicly resigned last week.

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Medicaid payment for mental health services shortchanges psychiatrists in many states: study

Fierce Healthcare

Medicaid payment for mental health services shortchanges psychiatrists in many states: study fdiamond Wed, 04/05/2023 - 15:21

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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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Telehealth use rose for third straight month in January among privately insured

Health Care Dive

Fair Health, which recently began tracking audio-only telehealth data, also found that audio-only utilization fell nationally from December to January.

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CMS finalizes changes to Medicare Advantage star ratings, prior authorization reforms

Fierce Healthcare

CMS finalizes changes to Medicare Advantage star ratings, prior authorization reforms rking Wed, 04/05/2023 - 16:14

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Newly reintroduced Rural Hospital Support Act helps ensure struggling small hospitals' survival, AHA says

Fierce Healthcare

Newly reintroduced Rural Hospital Support Act helps ensure struggling small hospitals' survival, AHA says dmuoio Wed, 04/05/2023 - 12:56

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Icahn ramps up rhetoric on Illumina after FTC orders Grail sale

Health Care Dive

In a letter to Illumina shareholders, Icahn says the two companies “should be separated immediately” to protect the “long term growth prospects and viability of each.

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Study: Cuts to Medicare Advantage payments may have modest impact on seniors' benefits

Fierce Healthcare

Study: Cuts to Medicare Advantage payments may have modest impact on seniors' benefits rking Wed, 04/05/2023 - 16:35

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How Health Insurance Plans Can Track & Improve Member Engagement

HIT Consultant

Alyssa Alsheimer, SVP of Marketing and Engagement at Wellframe The first step toward better health outcomes happens when people become proactive about protecting their own health and well-being. Proactive action rarely appears out of nowhere, though — most of us need some inspiration to start thinking about living healthier lifestyles. That’s where health insurance plans have a real opportunity to help.

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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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Time’s Up: Payments Modernization Simply Cannot Wait

Fierce Healthcare

Time’s Up: Payments Modernization Simply Cannot Wait mteefey Wed, 04/05/2023 - 14:10

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Dot Compliance Launches First AI Based ChatGPT Powered eQMS for Life Sciences

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Dot Compliance , a leading provider of eQMS compliance solutions for the life sciences sector, has introduced an industry-first, ready-to-use AI-Based electronic Quality Management System for life sciences, powered by an embedded generative and predictive artificial intelligence. The system deploys ChatGPT combined with proprietary algorithms to optimize quality processes, automate tasks and help professionals working in quality assurance to focus on what really matters whi

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Humana’s ‘Impact Report’ Highlights Home-Based Care Growth, Advocacy Goals

Home Health Care

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) released its annual “Impact Report” Wednesday, highlighting how it believes it’s making health care “more equitable and accessible for each person.” Its current and future home-based care initiatives were highlighted throughout, lending further insight into the breadth of the company’s resources and goals. “Expanding access to healthcare: Humana integrated CenterWell home health, pharmacy and primary care services throughout 2021 and 2022, which has allowed the company to

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Patientory Launches Blockchain App Enabling Patients to Earn Money for Their Health Data

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Patientory Inc. , the creator of a blockchain-based, HIPAA-compliant, private medical data ecosystem, announced today that it has launched two solutions–Patientory Consumer Decentralized Application-designed to help patients more efficiently and securely store and earn money from their medical data and Neith Enterprise Dashboard in partnership with Prosper Healthtech , a community-backed organization committed to equity in Birmingham offering a supportive network of organiz

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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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Connecting the dots: Standardizing EMR data essential to improving care, easing burnout

Healthy Debate

The post Connecting the dots: Standardizing EMR data essential to improving care, easing burnout appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Sword Health Launches AI Solution to Predict and Prevent Unnecessary Surgeries

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Sword Health , the world’s fastest-growing platform for treating pain, today announced Predict, the first AI engine using advanced machine learning to identify members who are up to 40x more likely to have surgery, more than 8 months before a decision has been made to operate, to help them avoid unnecessary and costly hip, knee, and back surgeries.

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NAHC’s Dombi: Home Health Providers Need To Embrace Medicare Advantage Opportunities

Home Health Care

With Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment poised to surpass traditional Medicare, home health providers will be forced to engage with plans, or otherwise, be left behind. That’s according to William A. Dombi, the president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). Dombi expressed this viewpoint during his keynote speech at the Illinois HomeCare & Hospice Council (IHHC) conference on Wednesday.

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Healthcare AI News 4/5/23

HIStalk

News Carle Health will use Scanslated software to convert radiology.

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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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Amid Financial Market Turmoil, Big Players Look To Smaller, High-Quality Home Health Agencies To Grow

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The drop in transaction volume at the high end of the home health market has cleared an interesting path for smaller standalone agencies. Investment experts are seeing strong demand and valuations for mom-and-pops, and those smaller providers are seeing it themselves. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content.

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More Consumers Expect Health/Care Companies to Be Purpose-Ful Versus All Other Industries

Health Populi

If your organization serves health consumers, patients, and caregivers, and you’re asking them to spend money on your services or products, then you’ll do well to be clear on your values and sense of purpose. In the latest Ipsos look into the future of “Purpose,” we find that consumers look most to health and pharmacy companies for shared values, compared with other industries people patronize such as food and grocery, technology and banks.

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Emergency brain surgery showed me the best of Ontario health care – and the worst

Healthy Debate

The post Emergency brain surgery showed me the best of Ontario health care – and the worst appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Microsoft at HIMSS23: Empower meaningful outcomes across the healthcare journey

Cloud Blogs

The healthcare industry continues to experience dramatic change year after year. A rapidly shifting landscape of patient expectations, workforce crisis and burnout, and stressed financial models has challenged organizations to adapt and reimagine what it means to provide care. We are committed to empowering healthcare organizations to deliver meaningful outcomes; not only as a technology provider but a trusted collaborator, focused on understanding these challenges and supporting our customers e

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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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Coming Soon: Public Comment about Measuring Health Systems, Genomic Medicine

NCQA

We are opening public comment from April 10 through May 1 , 2023, for measures related to Lynch syndrome , a hereditary cause of colon cancer. Our measurement of Lynch syndrome is the next step in our new assessment of health systems and genomic medicine. We seek comment on measures that assess: How often health systems, health plans and providers recommend the test for Lynch syndrome.

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Microsoft at HIMSS23: Empower meaningful outcomes across the healthcare journey

Cloud Blogs

The healthcare industry continues to experience dramatic change year after year. A rapidly shifting landscape of patient expectations, workforce crisis and burnout, and stressed financial models has challenged organizations to adapt and reimagine what it means to provide care. We are committed to empowering healthcare organizations to deliver meaningful outcomes; not only as a technology provider but a trusted collaborator, focused on understanding these challenges and supporting our customers e

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Intermountain Health Expands Relationship with Kyruus for Rebranded Digital Patient Experience

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Intermountain Health announced it is expanding the use of Kyruus ’ ProviderMatch® platform to power a new digital patient experience initiative. – This expansion builds on an existing relationship with Kyruus via legacy SCL Health (now Intermountain) in which Kyruus overhauled the system’s provider directory and replaced its existing online scheduling solution, which in less than a year, yielded a 21% increase in appointments scheduled online. – As par

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What to Expect with the Minimum Data Set (MDS) Transition to iQIES on April 17, 2023 and Sample iQIES MDS 3.0 Reports

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On April 17, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will transition to the Internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES) for Minimum Data Set (MDS) record submissions and reports. As part of this transition, the QIES Assessment Submission And Processing (ASAP) system for MDS submissions will be turned off on April 13 at 8:00 p.m.

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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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Earn CEUs with MPA's FREE Compliance Webinar!

Healthcare Performance

Sign up for MPA's FREE Compliance webinar: All webinars start at 11:00 a.m. CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima SNF Compliance Update April 19, 2023 90 minutes 1.8 CCB CEUs 1.5 NAB CEUs It’s been a long road since the Affordable Care Act mandated compliance and ethics programs for nursing homes in 2010. Since then, we have had rules issued; enforcement delayed; a pandemic; and, as of October 24, 2022, enforcement via CMS survey.

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FY 2024 DRAFT PDPM ICD-10 Mapping and FY 2024 PDPM Case-Mix Adjusted Federal Rates and Associated Indexes

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Along with the posting of the FY2024 SNF PPS Proposed Rule , the FY2024 DRAFT PDPM ICD-10 Mapping is available. Once you access the.

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OXOS Medical Raises $23M to Deliver ”Radiology Department in a Box”

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: OXOS Medical , the MedTech innovator developing simple and safe X-ray solutions, announced a $23 million Series A funding from Parkway Venture Capital and Intel Capital, bringing its total funding to $45 million. OXOS continues to build on its traction across outpatient clinics, the military, the Veterans Administration, sports teams, hospitals, imaging centers, and bioskills labs.

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White privilege and #firstworldproblems: Hierarchies of suffering are meant to divide us

Center for Health Progress

I’ve been working with our leaders on the Communications Organizing Team to get clear on their self-interest –what’s in it for them–in fighting to transform our for-profit health care system. At trainings and team meetings, a common issue has surfaced: many of us have been taught to focus on the privileges and advantages we do have in relation to the health care system.

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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.