Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Crossover has been working on extending its business model to payer clients for several years now, and will have more news to share by the end of the year.
Bill Of Health
OCTOBER 21, 2022
By Dorit Reiss. COVID-19 vaccines are extremely safe , and serious harms are rare. But rare does not mean the risk is zero; thus, we need a way to determine which people have plausible claims of harm from the vaccines, and we must then compensate them quickly and generously. However, the regular torts system is not a good option for adjudicating these claims.
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Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 21, 2022
The addition of 42,000 NYSNA members brings NNU’s total membership to about 225,000 registered nurses.
CHQ Healthcare
OCTOBER 21, 2022
So you need a locum. You know it. Your team knows it. But the approval process likely involves other decision makers. It is common for a practice to request locums support, only for directors to decline, preferring to have their full-time staff make do despite the shortage. You can improve your odds for success by working with the practice or service line to gather all the necessary justification for the position, such as budgets, schedules, and patient volume.
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Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 21, 2022
The second request, which CVS and Signify received on Wednesday, gives regulators another 30 days to review the transaction.
Sheppard Health Law
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Effective January 1, 2024, the recently enacted California Assembly Bill 1278, [1] requires a physician and surgeon (defined as a physician and surgeon licensed pursuant to the Medical Practice Act or an osteopathic physician and surgeon licensed by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California under the Osteopathic Act, but not a physician or surgeon working in a hospital emergency room) to provide a written or electronic notice of the Open Payments database to a patient at the initial office vis
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Rolland Carlson, CEO of Immunexpress. US hospital systems validate the safety, clinical utility, and robustness of newly FDA-approved devices, 510(k) cleared, before adopting them into clinical practice. This work occurs alongside evaluating how to integrate the medical device into the hospital system’s diagnostic paradigms, including in relation to quality improvement programs.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Information like dates and times of scheduled appointments may have been shared, as well as communications sent through the MyChart patient portal.
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 21, 2022
VNS Health has created its own data-driven tasking tool. The company believes it will be a game changer. The tool — officially called the VNS Health HELPS Tool — uses risk analytics and other data to generate health care plan recommendations automatically. At VNS Health, the tool has already administered over 70,000 recommendations since April 2020 when the service was created.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 21, 2022
A spike in COVID-19 cases due to the delta variant in 2021 contributed to the operator’s decline in Q3 admissions.
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Home Health Care
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Home health providers are dealing with a number of headwinds — inflation-induced financial challenges, labor shortages, pandemic pressures and more — that will only worsen if the proposed payment adjustments for 2023 become finalized. That’s the major takeaway from a recent labor cost study from the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare (PQHH). The study was conducted by Dobson DaVanzo & Associates and examines the changes in the home health labor costs.
Medi Leadership
OCTOBER 21, 2022
A few years ago, I experienced a strange paradox. Despite our rich expertise as MEDI Leadership coaches, our internal team dynamics were suffering. To be clear, each team member was wonderful. And yet, our internal dynamics… not so much. Seeking a solution, I had to recognize we needed an external perspective — our own executive coach — to get unstuck.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
OCTOBER 21, 2022
In recent years, FDA has approved a number of pieces of software that use artificial intelligence (AI) under its medical device approval system. FDA approved only 5 AI-power medical devices in 2015, but approved 115 of these in 2021 and likely will approve even more in 2022. Which companies are the ones with the most AI-power medical devices that were granted FDA approval this year (2022) so far?
Medi Leadership
OCTOBER 21, 2022
A few years ago, I experienced a strange paradox. Despite our rich expertise as MEDI Leadership coaches, our internal team dynamics were suffering. To be clear, each team member was wonderful. And yet, our internal dynamics… not so much. Seeking a solution, I had to recognize we needed an external perspective — our own executive coach — to get unstuck.
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Briggs Healthcare
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The OIG posted its study of Home Health Agencies and their response to the COVID-19 pandemic on October 18, 2022. Key Takeaway : Home health agencies (HHAs) developed strategies to respond to challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, including providing new incentives to maintain staff and seeking alternative sources of personal protective equipment.
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Targets for foreign threats against the United States increasingly include entities that are not part of the U.S. government or military. But too many of these potential victims are unaware of threats against them, are not warned with intelligence reporting about such threats, and lack information about options to protect themselves.
Briggs Healthcare
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Today, October 21, 2022, CMS posted R208SOMA : What follows, starting on page 2 of the 560-page transmittal, is the identification of the F-Tags within Appendix PP. Appendix PP begins on page 26 through page 538. Additional Exhibits (Chapter 9 – SOM) complete the rest of the 560 pages.
Triage Health Law
OCTOBER 21, 2022
In an effort to expand access to mental health services, on September 30, 2022, California’s Governor approved Senate Bill 1019, which modifies the California Welfare & Institutions Code as it relates to Medi-Cal managed care plans (“MMCP”). No later than January 1, 2025, MMCPs must develop and implement an annual outreach and education plan for their enrollees regarding the mental health benefits covered by MMCPs.
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Briggs Healthcare
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Today, October 21, 2022, CMS posted QSO-23-01-NH with the same title as this blog. Background: Sections 1819(f)(8) and 1919(f)(10) of the Social Security Act require CMS to conduct a Special Focus Facility (SFF) program which focuses on nursing homes that have a persistent record of noncompliance leading to poor quality of care.
The Rand Blog
OCTOBER 21, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on Putin's latest “desperate measures” in Ukraine, support for Xi Jinping, whether machine-learning tools can tell if you're lying, and more.
Briggs Healthcare
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the nursing home data for the week ending October 9, 2022. Comparing the October 2 nd data to the September 25 th data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate again decreased by 0.1% from previous week. Residents up to date with vaccines decreased 9.1% from previous week.
NASHP
OCTOBER 21, 2022
State Policies to Support Family Caregivers: Lessons Learned from Six States in the RAISE Act State Family Caregiving Institute October 21, 2022 / by Luke Pluta-Ehlers, Salom Teshale , and Wendy Fox-Grage. Introduction. With the country’s aging population comes a reality for many family members: the role of caregiver, providing a range of often complex and time-consuming supports to a relative, friend, or neighbor.
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Briggs Healthcare
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Hospice Quarterly Update for the third quarter of 2022 is now available. This update includes Hospice Quality Reporting Program highlights from July to September 2022, events and engagement opportunities for the fourth quarter of 2022 (October-December 2022), and selected questions and answers from the Hospice Quality Help Desk.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Seth Cohen, President at Cedar. Last year, the average annual premium for employer-sponsored family health coverage rose 4% to $22,221—including employer and worker contributions—according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. While employers are most often the ones selecting the health plan options and insurance for employees, the worker is the one who is left to navigate the healthcare continuum (including their true cost of care).
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