Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Seniors are forced to navigate a convoluted Medicare Advantage (MA) landscape for healthcare coverage, often only to be denied care, experts told legislators during a Senate Finance Committee heari | Senators and experts agreed Wednesday that marketing practices from Medicare Advantage plans are often overwhelming for seniors.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The insurer is actively seeking ways to mitigate the financial impact of its star ratings drop, Elevance CEO Gail Boudreaux said during the insurer’s third-quarter earnings call.
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Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Henry Ford Health is coming together with several of Ascension Michigan’s hospitals and other facilities to form a joint venture with over $10.5 billion in annual operating revenue, the organizatio | Should the deal close, the resulting organization would span 13 acute care hospitals and over 550 sites of care. The nonprofits stressed that the arrangement is not a merger and that "no cash transaction" would take place.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The zero-dollar premium plans will be available in 10 counties in Arizona, California, Florida and Texas starting next year.
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Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
CalOptima Health, the Medi-Cal managed care plan for Orange County, is awarding $52.3 million in grants to accelerate the creation of affordable and permanent housing. | The grants will go to 15 grantees to acquire, construct and upgrade a total of 706 housing units to support people experiencing homelessness.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 18, 2023
According to dHealth Foundation director and cofounder Quy Vo-Reinhard, for regulators and users to keep up with emerging technologies like blockchain and smart contracts there needs to be an emphasis on education.
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Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The incident affected a portion of the company’s manufacturing and distribution businesses.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Elevance Health reported $1.3 billion in profit for the third quarter, beating the Street but falling short of the prior-year quarter's haul. | Elevance Health reported $1.3 billion in profit for the third quarter, beating the Street but falling short of the prior-year quarter's haul.
CDC
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Two hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are demonstrating that even when access to resources is limited, commitment to infection prevention and control (IPC) practices makes combating antimicrobial resistance (AR) possible. Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria can cause severe, hard-to-treat infections. They were associated with almost 5 million deaths worldwide in 2019.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Healthcare payment software maker Waystar filed for an initial public offering, signaling a potential end to the dry spell in the health tech IPO market. | Healthcare payment software maker Waystar filed for an initial public offering, signaling a potential end to the dry spell in the health tech IPO market.
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HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Hilton Hudson, MD, FACS, and CEO of HPC International In May 2022, a California doctor was sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for his involvement in a $12 million Medicare fraud scheme. His crime: performing unnecessary vein ablation procedures on patients, and using incorrect billing codes to receive larger reimbursements. He received $4.5 million in reimbursements from Medicare over a three-year period.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Conquering 5 Common Healthcare Marketing Challenges | Healthcare marketing is tough. Learn about 5 common healthcare marketing challenges and how health education content helps you face them head-on.
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 18, 2023
While many health systems offloaded ancillary service lines following the pandemic, Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health doubled down on home-based care. Those companies merging, and creating “Advocate Health,” has created one of the largest health systems in the U.S. But the merger has also formed an organization with a strong and wide commitment to home-based care.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Bicycle Health, a virtual provider of opioid use disorder (OUD) care, is teaming up with Override Health, a virtual chronic pain management clinic, for a bidirectional patient referral relationship | Bicycle will refer patients to Override for chronic pain care, while Override will refer patients in need of OUD treatment to Bicycle. The partners’ goal is to increase access to chronic pain care and OUD treatment, two areas they say have a lot of patients in common.
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Bill Of Health
OCTOBER 18, 2023
By Joelle Boxer Last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of nine reproductive health care bills , following the passage of fifteen such bills in 2022. While the state should be lauded for its efforts, it has come up short. Recent legislation largely excludes up to 25% of the adult population: Californians with disabilities. People with disabilities in the U.S. experience wide disparities in accessing reproductive health care, rooted in a long history of oppressive reproducti
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
On Wednesday, World Menopause Day, two healthcare partners unveiled their collaboration to help patients going through midlife hormonal transitions. | Patients will be able to access Midi’s telehealth services directly through Midi or by getting a referral from their Memorial Hermann-affiliated physician. All services are covered by insurance in Texas under major PPO plans.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Jason Kang, Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer at Kinnos Concerns about deadly fungal infections are growing nearly as fast as the outbreaks themselves. From popular television shows to recent articles in the Wall Street Journal and Fast Company , the attention has been swift and breathless. Unfortunately, lost in the scramble to highlight their potency and develop a cure has been any agreement on an effective strategy for cutting into their spread.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Waymark, a Medicare-focused provider enablement company, has secured $42 million in fresh funding that it plans to use to continue scaling its offering. | Waymark, a Medicare-focused provider enablement company, has secured $42 million in fresh funding that it plans to use to continue scaling its offering.
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HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 18, 2023
What You Should Know: – InfoBionic , a digital health company focused on virtual telemetry and cardiac remote patient monitoring closes its Series D financing round. The series D funding round includes participation by Security International Investments (SII), Mayo Clinic and Excel Venture Management while distinguished existing investors like Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA (Zaffre Investments), Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas and Safeguard Scientifics remain actively involved. – The
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Family premiums for employer plans are set to rise by 7% on average this year, one year after virtually no growth, according to a
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Chris Oskuie, VP, State & Local Government &Education Sales at Software AG Government Solutions As a result of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), Medicaid programs were required to keep citizens continuously enrolled through the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). These continuous enrollments ended on March 31, 2023, resulting in what many call the unwinding of Medicaid.
Health IT Analytics
OCTOBER 18, 2023
An automated, AI-based pain recognition system may provide an unbiased approach to assess patients’ pain and decrease hospital length of stay.
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
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Home Health Care
OCTOBER 18, 2023
WellBe Senior Medical is expanding its footprint, this time through an entrance into Oregon. “We’re working on additional expansions, likely to come in 2024, that will bring us into Washington, and a couple other states out in the Pacific Northwest,” Mike Stuart, chief growth officer at WellBe, told Home Health Care News. “We’re excited to get started in Oregon.
Healthy Debate
OCTOBER 18, 2023
No system can cover all the health needs of every person all the time. It's time for difficult conversations about our health-care system.
Healthcare Leadership Council
OCTOBER 18, 2023
After over a decade of projecting that the models initiated by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) would reduce Medicare spending, eyebrows were raised in health policy circles when the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a recent report estimating that in its first decade of operation, CMMI’s efforts had actually elevated federal spending by $5.4 billion between 2011 and 2020.
HIStalk
OCTOBER 18, 2023
News OpenAI adds voice capabilities to the ChatGPT mobile app,
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.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
OCTOBER 18, 2023
That is the title of a study presented this week at the Obesity Week conference. This is work used a distributional cost effectiveness analysis approach for measuring the value of semaglutide 2.4 mg for the treatment of patients with obesity and overweight. It was conducted with co-authors Joshua Toliver, Mads Faurby, Jaehong Kim, Sanjana Muthukrishnan and Sean D.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 18, 2023
What You Should Know: – Avidex , a provider of audiovisual and interactive patient care solutions, and Artisight , an AI-powered smart hospital platform announced a strategic partnership. – Avidex and Artisight will harness the strengths of both companies to provide a turnkey virtual care solution. Avidex will take on the role of the in-room technology integrator, leveraging its expertise to install and support the solution’s essential AV equipment and platform integration of i
Vie Healthcare
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Episode Introduction Tony & Jonas explain why 100% of rebates go straight to the bottom line, share the 3 Ms of rebate management, and highlight how Rebate Insight’s SaaS solution is increasing hospital rebates by 26% or more. They also explain how ‘’dark data’’ blurs visibility into rebate management and celebrate being part of SpendMend. Show Topics Rebate management should be a priority in healthcare Manual processes make it difficult to track rebates The 3 M’s of rebate management Dark
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 18, 2023
What You Should Know: – Inovalon , a provider of cloud-based software solutions empowering data-driven healthcare, today announced the establishment of a Preferred Data Partner Program. – The program aims to work with a select number of leading organizations that are committed to the thoughtful application of data towards the improvement of economics and outcomes across the healthcare ecosystem.
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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