Healthcare It News

APRIL 25, 2022

Behavioral Nutrition is a holistic eating disorder outpatient clinic that treats adolescents and adults using behavioral therapy and nutritional counseling. The clinic has five locations spread out among Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Florida, New Jersey and Texas. THE PROBLEM. The provider organization had four main challenges: The clinical team was looking to provide convenient nutritional support to patients who needed help but were deterred from scheduling a session due to being located sever

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 25, 2022

The Department of Justice intends to appeal a ruling siding with the Texas Medical Association, saying arbiters should not weigh any factor more heavily than others when resolving payment disputes between payers and providers.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 25, 2022

A survey conducted by the American Medical Association found that the vast majority of physician respondents say they're currently using telehealth – and many of those reporting a decrease say they're providing a mix of virtual and in-person care. The survey, which was conducted online in late 2021, explored the variations in telehealth use among 2,232 physicians.

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 25, 2022

New data from the nonprofit reiterates the explosive growth in telemedicine in the first year of the pandemic when other medical sites scaled back services.

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The Rand Blog

APRIL 25, 2022

Permanent daylight saving time is widely favored by the public, and the House of Representatives may or may not follow the Senate in its recent approval of such a change in law. But that delicious extra hour of evening recreation in the spring and summer comes at a major cost to people's sleep, mood, alertness, and productivity for the remainder of the year.

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 25, 2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic paved the way for expanded virtual care, telehealth has grown in adoption. How are your licensing processes adapting to this changing environment?

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 25, 2022

Asheville is an area well known in healthcare circles for its previous state-sanctioned monopoly. If approved, AdventHealth's facility will be the second hospital in the area.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 25, 2022

Getting an accurate and timely OASIS is a challenge that home health providers continue to face. As providers continue to gear up for OASIS-E, it will be important to follow a set of processes that will help set them up for success. “We’ve got to be thinking about how we can make this better,” Cindy Krafft, co-owner and co-founder of consulting firm Kornetti & Krafft Health Care Solutions, said earlier this month during a presentation at the annual Illinois HomeCare & Hospice Council (IH

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 25, 2022

Vidya Raman-Tangella joins Teladoc from Amazon subsidiary AWS, where she led strategy for healthcare solutions.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CDC’s April 22, 2022, MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) Provisional Mortality Data — United States, 2021 shows some significant provisional statistics. “The year 2021 saw the highest death rate since 2003, with increases in many leading causes of death, including COVID-19 and unintentional injuries.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 25, 2022

By most measures, 2021 was a resounding success for home health company PathWell. Now, CEO Raman Brar has even bigger plans for 2022. “I would say our goals [for the next year] is doubling down on what we did in 2021,” Brar told Home Health Care News. “And some of that we’ve already done.”. Based in Fairfield, Connecticut, PathWell has around 100 employees, split evenly between its back-end workers and caregivers in the field.

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Advanced Data Systems

APRIL 25, 2022

The general public is becoming more familiar with the benefits of behavioral health services. With celebrities openly talking about their need to participate in therapy and prioritize their own mental health, the stigma of seeking assistance may be eroding. That’s good news for providers, who can envision more patients coming for help with their mind and not just their body.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 25, 2022

Staffing is almost ubiquitously considered the toughest challenge in both home health and home care. A parallel issue that is often considered far less, however, is turnover among executives at the companies that make up the space. It’s not completely clear whether the trend came to fruition due to COVID-19 or not – or whether it was not due to COVID-19 itself, but the ripple effects that the pandemic did have on companies, people and work life in general.

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Bill Of Health

APRIL 25, 2022

By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Alexander Egilman , Aviva Wang, and ? Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of March.

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APRIL 25, 2022

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The next CMS Hospital/Quality Initiative Open Door Forum scheduled for: Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Start Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time (ET). Please dial-in at least 15 minutes before call start time. **DATE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE**. Next CMS Hospital/Quality Initiative Open Door Forum: TBD.

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NASHP

APRIL 25, 2022

States’ drug price transparency programs are effectively analyzing and reporting data — an important tool for informing the public, holding drug supply chain entities accountable for high costs, and identifying potential policy approaches. Leading states are highlighting high prices for anti-inflammatory drugs, the impact of pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) regulation on drug spending and the use of rebates, and a discrepancy between prices along the supply chain that reduces the potential savings

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) today announced a joint venture with Nashville-based Honest Medical Group to offer physicians comprehensive operational, clinical, and financial support for shared accountability Medicare contracts. – The joint venture is the first of its kind for BCBSM and aligns with the organization’s continued expansion of Blueprint for Affordability, its member-focused, value-based care and payment models.

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HIStalk

APRIL 25, 2022

UnitedHealth agrees to sell Change Healthcare’s ClaimsXten business for $2.2bn.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The next CMS Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF)/Long Term Care (LTC) Open Door Forum scheduled for: Date: Thursday, April 28, 2022. Start Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Time (ET). Please dial-in at least 15 minutes before call start time. Conference Leaders: Todd Smith & Jill Darling.

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HIStalk

APRIL 25, 2022

This week’s Monday Morning Update discussed an EHR outage at.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2022

Dr. Bob Lindner, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of veda. Efficient data processing and data sharing are essential functions across healthcare—from patient care, clinical research, and health services planning to billing and government reporting for funding and research. But most of the data that the industry is processing is human-generated, meaning it’s messy and riddled with errors, and often manually inputted from Excel spreadsheets into various disparate platforms and technology s

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 25, 2022

The state's main hospital lobby called the waiver's survival, which was also praised by Republicans late last week, a relief.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – Kyruus , a provider search and scheduling solutions for healthcare organizations, and Upfront , preeminent patient communication and engagement platform, today announced a new partnership to help healthcare organizations drive patient acquisition, activation, and retention. – The combination of both platforms allows healthcare organizations to create better digital experiences for their patients using Kyruus’ powerful provider search, match, and scheduling ca

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