Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 25, 2023
Cigna is cutting down its Affordable Care Act exchange footprint down to 14 states, the company said Monday. | Cigna is cutting down its Affordable Care Act exchange footprint down to 14 states, the company said Monday.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 25, 2023
Nearly two-thirds of participating accountable care organizations earned payments for their performance last year, according to the CMS.
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Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 25, 2023
Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 25, 2023
Brisbane hospital digitises outpatient waitlist audit An unnamed major hospital in Brisbane has started using digital patient pathways by Personify Care to conduct outpatient audits. The AI and NLP-driven platform, according to Personify Care, was configured to contact "long-wait" patients based on pre-defined criteria and ask a series of questions to determine the ongoing need for clinical care and unreported changes to demographics.
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Health Care Dive
AUGUST 25, 2023
Regulating cross-market mergers will be “on the radar” of policymakers and regulators as they become increasingly common, the report noted.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 25, 2023
Health systems have invested heavily in EHR foundations and IT infrastructure, but these resources are limited to clinical operations and patient record management. To redesign care in a way that focuses on people as they live their lives, a new technology stack and culture is needed, incorporating cloud-native architecture, agile methodologies, product-driven development and DevOps, contends Dr.
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The Rand Blog
AUGUST 25, 2023
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu recently sought the Nigerian national legislature's backing for a possible military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to turn back a coup that toppled the government of Niger. An ECOWAS intervention would have a better chance of succeeding if other nations joined the effort.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 25, 2023
Hans Morefield, CEO, CHESS Health Far too often, substance use disorder (SUD) is viewed as an “acute condition,” one that can be “cured” with short-term treatment, such as a week-long stay in a detox facility. This could not be further from the truth. The failure to understand the science behind addiction leads individuals who are undertreated or inappropriately treated to return to use again and again.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 25, 2023
Resilient Healthcare has teamed up with Community Hospital Consulting – a Community Hospital Corporation (CHC) organization – on a joint venture partnership. The JV, which will be dubbed Resilient Community LLC — would expand CHC’s health-at-home program across more than 40 states. CHC owns and manages hospitals in the community health space. The organization has been looking to provide an innovative hospital-at-home community care model for their hospitals.
NASHP
AUGUST 25, 2023
Life expectancy for people with HIV has increased significantly as a result of sustained viral suppression with more effective antiretroviral treatment. More than half of people living with HIV in the U.S. are over 50 , and an estimated 70 percent will be over 50 by 2030. Older Americans also now represent a significant percentage of new HIV cases, with 21 percent and 36 percent of HIV diagnoses among men and women, respectively, occurring in patients over 45 as of 2019.
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HIT Consultant
AUGUST 25, 2023
What You Should Know: – GE HealthCare launches CardioVisio for Atrial Fibrillation (AFib), a digital tool designed to assist clinicians in visualizing longitudinal data relevant for disease progression from multiple data sources, and driving evidence based clinical decision support directed by up-to-date AFib guidelines. – CardioVisio for Atrial Fibrillation is now commercially available in the U.S.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 25, 2023
The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link] /. Chelsea Chartowick, the human resources coordinator at Syracuse, New York-based Nascentia Health, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.
The Rand Blog
AUGUST 25, 2023
This weekly recap focuses on why Ukraine isn’t like World War I, an alternative to student loans, the tech “Cold War" between the United States and China, and more.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 25, 2023
The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) continues to save Medicare over a billion dollars annually. And some of the highest-performing, most innovative Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) participating in the program continue to generate savings by effectively using home-based care. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Thursday that MSSP saved Medicare $1.8 billion in 2022 compared to spending targets for the year.
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Healthcare ECONOMIST
AUGUST 25, 2023
GPT-4 writing code. AI gives a patient their voice back. Productivity and hospitals. Impact of Long COVID in workers’ comp. “Insurers negotiated median hospital prices for commercial plans that were two to three times higher than their MA prices in the same hospital for the same service.
Home Health Care
AUGUST 25, 2023
Last year, home-based care companies far and wide experienced impressive growth. Among those were organizations that recently grabbed spots on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies. Home Health Care News sat down with a few of those providers to find out how they continue to grow at such a rapid rate. Serving seniors with dementia One of the aforementioned companies is Friendly Faces Senior Care, a Houston, Texas-based provider that has set itself apart by specializing in del
Sheppard Health Law
AUGUST 25, 2023
On August 21, 2023, the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) announced updates to the Medicaid overpayment self-disclosure program, which now includes an abbreviated process for reporting and explaining overpayments that are considered routine or transactional in nature and have been already voided and adjusted. The OMIG self-disclosure process has long been established to provide an avenue for Medicaid providers to report, return and explain Medicaid overpayments withi
Icanotes
AUGUST 25, 2023
Eating Disorder Treatment Plan and Note-Writing Tips Eating disorders are complex conditions to treat and manage, with therapists playing a pivotal role in helping individuals identify and overcome them. Eating disorder treatment requires a multifactored approach and paying close attention to symptoms. With a thorough understanding of the signs and symptoms of eating disorders, therapists can build stronger notes and treatment plans to provide patients with the best chance at success.
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HIT Consultant
AUGUST 25, 2023
What You Should Know: Keona Health , a digital health company providing a healthcare CRM to simplify the complexities of patient access raises $7M led by Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC), the growth capital arm of The Riverside Company. The investment is an inflection point for Keona’s transformative CareDesk platform, a healthcare CRM specifically designed to simplify patient access, from scheduling to telephone triage.
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 25, 2023
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has posted an updated iQIES MDS FAQ for Providers v1.2 dated August 22, 2023.
Patient Safety Movement
AUGUST 25, 2023
At June’s World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, our CEO Dr. Michael Ramsay shared an optimistic perspective about the progress which can be made in patient safety in the next five years through data transparency and evidence-based medicine. “I think things are going to happen remarkably fast,” he said. “I do not think in 10 years’ time we’ll be sitting here thinking, ‘Well we still haven’t made much progress.
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 25, 2023
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, August 31, 2023 Start Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Time (ET) Please dial-in at least 15 minutes before call start time. NOTE: To participate in this webinar, you must register in advance.
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Etactics
AUGUST 25, 2023
1 in 5 people report experiencing workplace harassment , whether it be physical, psychological, or sexual. Anyone can experience discrimination at work and no professional setting is immune. From bullying to discrimination, it is important to be able to recognize workplace harassment so that it does not go unchecked. To ignore these issues means you’re actively… Cultivating a toxic work environment Increasing your employee turnover Opening yourself up to a potential lawsuit Depending on the stat
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 25, 2023
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) is an annual observance held in August to highlight the importance of routine vaccination for people of all ages. As of January 1, 2023, your Medicare Part D drug plan now covers most vaccines at no cost to you. All adult vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) are now covered with no
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