Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
FTC officials said they are putting the market on watch with the enforcement against GoodRx. The digital health company allegedly collected data, including patient medications, and shared it without user consent.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
CMS proposes small hike to Medicare Advantage, Part D plan payments in 2024 amid risk adjustment changes rking Wed, 02/01/2023 - 17:35
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Care delivered by physicians in health systems costs between 12% and 26% higher than care delivered by independent physicians, according to a study published in JAMA Network.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Researchers looking for long COVID symptoms find only 7 fdiamond Wed, 02/01/2023 - 14:59
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
The latest lawsuit focuses on boosted fees that both parties must pay for arbitration to solve billing disputes between providers and payers.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Healthcare Dealmakers—Elevance to acquire BCBSLA; Regulators' request for Sanford and Fairview and more dmuoio Wed, 02/01/2023 - 14:41
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Humana taps leader for CenterWell arm, posts $15M loss in Q4 pminemyer Wed, 02/01/2023 - 07:33
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Eduardo Conrado will assume the role from Joseph Impicciche, Ascension’s current chief executive officer.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
FTC slaps GoodRx with $1.
Sheppard Health Law
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
On January 30, 2023 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the long-delayed final rule on risk adjustment data validation (“RADV”) audits of Medicare Advantage (“MA”) organizations (the “Final Rule”). CMS promotes the Final Rule as improving program integrity and payment accuracy as well as transparency and certainty. One thing that is certain, CMS can expect further challenges to its RADV audit methodology.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Insurers slam CMS' proposed limit on nonstandardized ACA plans sold on HealthCare.
Center for Health Progress
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Growing up as the daughter of Cuban immigrants, I was taught to always be grateful for what I had, no matter how bad things were. While this made me very humble, it kept me from critiquing many of the systems in the US, even when they didn’t work for me. I became uninsured at the age of 18 when I lost pediatric coverage through the state and my parents couldn’t afford to add me to their employer-based insurance plan.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
How employers try to foster better mental healthcare for workers fdiamond Wed, 02/01/2023 - 07:50
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
One of the most difficult types of abuse to identify has always been elderly abuse. This is the segment of the population that is the most segregated because many just aren’t as mobile as they once were. So very many elderly people don’t drive anymore or have developed mobility issues that prevent them from venturing out in public much. For whatever reason, they aren’t as social as other segments of the population, and thus, it becomes extremely difficult to identify elderly abuse.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
The mpox public health emergency is over, but infectious disease groups say there's still plenty to learn dmuoio Wed, 02/01/2023 - 11:42
Healthcare Associates
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Due to weather and our ongoing concern for the safety of our team and patients, all Healthcare Associates of Texas clinics will continue to see only virtual video appointments through Thursday, Feb. 2, morning. Pending weather, we plan to reopen for face-to-face appointments at 1 p.m. Thursday. All patients who have an appointment scheduled and who will be affected by the weather-related closure will be contacted.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Humana weighing challenge to MA risk adjustment rule, CEO says pminemyer Wed, 02/01/2023 - 12:37
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Emily Bonham, SVP of Product Management, AGS Health A healthy, stable revenue cycle is crucial to every healthcare organization’s success. However, managing the revenue cycle takes experienced coders, complete documentation, and timely resolution of denials. Administrative processes account for about 30% of U.S. healthcare costs, which means that all areas of a patient encounter, from check-in to billing and claims, are potential targets to obtain greater efficiency.
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Health Care Leader News
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
The current pressures on the NHS are well documented, and in South East London ICB we’re very similar to the rest of the country in that we are seeing real pressure in general practice. Everything that we are asking of them puts them in a unique position. They are often seen as the first port of call for many people in the community; they still have a high level of competence and trust.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
What You Should Know: – Smile Train and BioDigital launched the first-ever cleft surgery virtual reality (VR) platform experience at the IMSH Conference in Orlando, Florida. – The platform utilizes a “metaverse operating room” to simulate surgery on cleft lip and palate , a common birth condition that occurs when a baby’s lip or mouth does not form properly during pregnancy.
The Rand Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
In partnership with RAND, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is tracking how communities are evolving their approaches to building a Culture of Health and advancing health equity. The research offers insights on how and why inequities develop, and more importantly, how communities change course and move towards health equity.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Comfort Keepers names new CEO The Irvin, California-based Comfort Keepers has named Ramzi Abdine as its new CEO. Abdine will replace Carl McManus, who had led the company in that role since 2017. “I am honored to be selected to lead Comfort Keepers as CEO and am excited about our company’s future,” Abdine said in a statement. “Carl has been an incredible leader and I will be highly focused on ensuring Comfort Keepers continues to lead the industry in innovation and uplifting, quality care.
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
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The Rand Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
The Department of Defense does not provide the irregular warfare professional military education necessary for success in competition and conflict in the 21st century. This is a not a new problem, but it is one that may deserve new attention from Congress and the Pentagon.
PDC Healthcare
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Every patient, procedure, and staff member an Ambulatory Surgery Center relies on accurate patient identification. Patient identification wristbands are crucial to ensuring patient safety as they provide a critical link between the patient’s identity, electronic medical record, and treatment. With the high volumes ambulatory surgery centers have to handle, it’s critical to stay updated with […] The post Signs It’s Time for Your ASC to Upgrade Its Patient ID Solution appeared first on
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Before other states start to consider minimum wage increases for home care workers, it would be beneficial for them to understand what has – and hasn’t – gone well in New York. In the spring of 2022, New York legislators passed a law that gave home care workers an extra $1 per hour above the state’s $15 minimum wage. Another $2 per hour will kick in for those workers in Oct. 2023.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
According to a recent paper by Wallace (2023) , the answer is ‘yes’, but it does so in a highly inefficient manner. Using 2008-2012 Medicaid data from the New York State Department of Health, the author find that: Leveraging the random assignment of over 50,000 Medicaid enrollees in New York, I present causal evidence that narrower networks are a blunt instrument for reducing health care spending.
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.
Center for Health Progress
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Growing up as the daughter of Cuban immigrants, I was taught to always be grateful for what I had, no matter how bad things were. While this made me very humble, it kept me from critiquing many of the systems in the US, even when they didn’t work for me. I became uninsured at the age of 18 when I lost pediatric coverage through the state and my parents couldn’t afford to add me to their employer-based insurance plan.
Osf Healthcare
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
OSF Innovation is developing hospital-based Innovation Hubs where anyone across the Ministry can learn to engage in improvement, creative thinking and executing solutions. The first hub launched at OSF HealthCare Saint Paul Medical Center in Mendota, Illinois.
Medi Leadership
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
By Debra Harrison and Gina Schneider Executive turnover in healthcare is not new. Nearly all issues of Becker’s Hospital Review report on executive moves and departures. The American College of Healthcare Executives ( ACHE ) has tracked hospital CEO turnover for many years, reporting a rate of 16% in 2021 — a persisting trend that’s ranged from 13% to 20% since the early 80s.
Patient Safety Movement
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
DOCTOR DELIVERS LETHAL EPIDURAL AT BROOKLYN HOSPITAL An article last week in The New York Times told the story of an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn public hospital, with a history of making life-threatening errors in administering epidurals, who made a fatal mistake in July 2020. A state medical review board later found in that tragic instance that Sha-Asia Semple, a pregnant 26-year-old woman in labor at Woodhull Medical Center, had the catheter that delivered the anesthesia threaded more tha
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.
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