Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Healthcare employment has risen by an average of 47,000 new jobs a month this year, compared to 9,000 a month on average in 2021, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Rand Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Around 200,000 service members transition to the civilian labor market every year. They often find it's like falling into another dimension, one where employers don't even speak the same language. More than a decade of RAND research has sought to ease that transition.
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Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
The new analysis found wide variations in charity care. At 8% of hospitals, it made up 0.1% or less of operating expenses.
The Rand Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Ukraine could be prudent to manage expectations about potential Crimea outcomes. Kyiv and its Western partners might benefit from a careful analysis of choices.
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Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Nine straight months of negative margins could lead to “one of the worst financial years for hospitals” in 2022, according to a new report.
Healthcare Associates
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Traveling benefits everyone, and that includes seniors. Men who take vacations could lower their risk of dying from heart disease by 32% , and women who travel at least twice a year could reduce their stress levels and risk of depression. While some seniors may feel too vulnerable to travel, you should not curtail your travel plans due to possible safety issues.
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
By walking back severe cuts initially proposed in the home health payment rule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was strategically trying to create positive feelings about the final rule in order to have an upper hand down the line. That is the assessment made by William A. Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), less than a week removed the final rule’s publishing.
The Rand Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
This week, we discuss preparing for future pandemics; planning now for a negotiated outcome in Ukraine; insights from Ukraine that relate to Taiwan; the need for more data to help reduce law enforcement–related deaths; how China might react to U.S. posture changes; and using statistics to improve military force planning.
Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Choice Health at Home appoints chief financial officer. Choice Health at Home has named Jeffrey Kreger the company’s chief financial officer (CFO). The Tyler, Texas-based Choice is home health, hospice and rehabilitation services provider. The company operates in 60 total locations across Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Prior to joining the company as CFO, Kreger was executive vice president and CFO at VITAS Healthcare.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Many people believe that the US is a fee-for-service system and many European countries are more likely to use global capitation reimbursement for providers. Those who dislike fee-for-service claim it incentivize over-treatment and disincentives prevention and use terms like “waste” and “too expensive” Those who dislike global capitation claim that approach leads to reduced access to care and longer wait times for care and terms used include “rationing” and &#
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Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. The path to home-based care is different for all professionals in the space. Inna Plumb, the co-founder and COO of the New York-based MedArrive, took an interesting path. . Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content. Individual Membership $400 per year. Purchase. Group 2–5 members $380 per year*.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Lately we’ve been talking a lot in THINK-Health’s workflows with clients about trust and health citizenship: how inspiring positive individual health behaviors can initiate a flywheel of public health goodness. The UK’s National Health Service is acting on this concept through a new campaign to inspire people in the Black community to give blood.
Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
This article is sponsored by AlayaCare. This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Brady Murphy, Chief Revenue Officer at AlayaCare. The discussion took place on September 15, 2022, during the Home Health Care News FUTURE Conference in New York City. The article below has been edited for length and clarity. Home Health Care News: Today we’re going to be talking about home-based care trends and how developing technology is critical in shaping the industry’s futur
NASHP
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Webinar: New NASHP Model Legislation: Limiting Out-of-Network Provider Rates to Lower Costs and Increase Network Participation. Tuesday, November 29, 2022, 3:30–4:30 p.m. ET. Register Now. In this webinar, legal and health economics experts will provide background on NAHSP’s newest model legislation, An Act to Limit Out-of-Network Provider Rates, which will be released in mid-November.
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Briggs Healthcare
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted COVID-19 nursing home data for the week ending October 23, 2022. Comparing the October 23 rd data to the October 16 th data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate decreased 0.1% from the previous week. Residents up to date with vaccines increased 1.% from the previous week.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
What You Should Know: – Smile Digital Health, a FHIR® health data fabric and exchange solutions provider, announced that it has acquired Alphora, a market leader in Clinical Quality Language (CQL) that provides tooling and services to unlock clinical reasoning, decision support and other quality metrics capabilities. – As a result of the acquisition, Smile Digital Health customers now have access to Smile Alphora, the company’s new clinical reasoning capability that leverages i
NASHP
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
State Strategies to Support Family and Professional Caregivers November 4, 2022 / by Ella Taggart and Wendy Fox-Grage. The pandemic heightened reliance on family caregivers and exacerbated the shortage of direct care workers. State policymakers and national experts met at NASHP’s Conference in Seattle, Washington in September 2022 to share insights and promising practices to address these crises.
Briggs Healthcare
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. October 12, 2022. Effective Nov. 1, nursing facility providers must complete section GG and related fields before they submit an Omnibus Reconciliation Act assessment with an Assessment Reference Date on or after Nov. 1, 2022. As part of this change, Texas will no longer require the calculation of an alternate Medicaid billing RUG.
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HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
What You Should Know: – A new report by KLAS provides the latest view on how the major vendors in this market perform and which ones stand out in the areas that small practices (2–10 physicians) care about most. – Small practices provide a significant amount of outpatient care in the US, and their needs differ from those of their larger counterparts.
Briggs Healthcare
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. SNFs are required to report data to meet the SNF QRP requirements. The submission deadline for the SNF QRP is approaching. MDS and NHSN data for 4/1/22 through 6/30/22 must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. on November 15, 2022. The Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 must be transmitted to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through the Assessment Submission and Processing (ASAP) system to the Quality Improveme
Bill Of Health
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
By Alison Bateman-House, Hayley M. Belli, and Sage Gustafson. This series is adapted from a webinar hosted by PRIM&R on August 5, 2021: IRB Review of Expanded Access Protocols t hat Collect Real World Data: Considerations and Guidance. Read Part 1 and Part 2. Part 3: What’s an IRB to do? EA is considered treatment, not research. EA was not established as a means to collect research data, even though certain safety data must be collected and shared with the FDA and the sponsor.
The Rand Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Iran has seen large-scale protests in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, who died in the custody of the Iranian morality police in September. But are these protests the spark that will usher in a democratic form of governance in Iran?
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Sheppard Health Law
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
On Monday, we discussed that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (“CMS”) has heightened oversight of Medicare Advantage (“MA”) organizations’ and Part D sponsors’ marketing practices. We also noted that the United States Senate Committee on Finance (the “Committee”) sent letters to 15 state insurance commissioners and state health insurance assistance programs, requesting data and information on MA marketing complaints in August 2022.
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