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Medicare to collect drug price rebates starting in 2025

Health Care Dive

The CMS has laid out how it plans to implement a key provision of the Inflation Reduction Act requiring drugmakers to pay rebates on price hikes in Medicare that are greater than inflation.

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How the current economic downturn impacts healthcare funding and investor strategy

Fierce Healthcare

How the current economic downturn impacts healthcare funding and investor strategy agliadkovskaya Fri, 02/10/2023 - 10:37

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Tipping point is in sight: Value-based care is driving meaningful financial results

Health Care Dive

Strata’s Liz Kirk shares her reflections on value-based care from the 41st annual JPMorgan healthcare conference held in San Francisco.

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HIMSSCast: The Quintuple Aim – why health equity is a critical addition

Healthcare It News

In this podcast, we discuss a new concept that has blossomed from an old one. The old concept is The Quadruple Aim. The new concept? The Quintuple Aim. What's new? Health equity. The guest is Dr. Kedar Mate, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and a member of the faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College. Earlier this year, Kedar co-authored a JAMA Viewpoint proposing the "Quintuple Aim" for healthcare improvement, which would add a fifth aim: to advance he

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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HHS readies for PHE wind down, end of pandemic flexibilities

Health Care Dive

A variety of pandemic-era policies will expire May 11, including those allowing providers to prescribe controlled substances via telehealth without an in-person visit and rules requiring payers to cover COVID-19 testing.

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Albertsons launches app uniting pharmacy, nutrition and telehealth

Fierce Healthcare

Albertsons launches app uniting pharmacy, nutrition and telehealth aburky Fri, 02/10/2023 - 16:29

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Which payer raked in the most cash last year? The answer likely won't surprise you

Fierce Healthcare

Which payer raked in the most cash last year?

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Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy

Bill Of Health

By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to recognize the threat to liberal democracy from the last 50 years of coordinated conservative political and policy actions. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements.

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Task force reaffirms 2016 ruling on screening for genital herpes

Fierce Healthcare

Task force reaffirms 2016 ruling on screening for genital herpes fdiamond Fri, 02/10/2023 - 13:59

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There Are So Many Good Reasons to Move Your Body

Healthcare Associates

There Are So Many Good Reasons to Move Your Body Want to look 10 years younger and 10 pounds lighter? Wish you could lower your risk for premature death? Um…yes, yes and YES. Who doesn’t? Here’s the good news: You don’t have to spend a lot of money on cosmetic procedures or expensive skin creams, exclusive gym memberships or pricey diet foods. It turns out, regular physical activity is key to them all.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Henry Ford, MSU, Pistons dunk $2.5B into expanded health facilities in the Motor City

Fierce Healthcare

Henry Ford, MSU, Pistons dunk $2.

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6 ways to improve clinician engagement and increase retention

CHQ Healthcare

High rates of clinician turnover are impacting healthcare organizations nationwide. In fact, a 2022 survey found that 43% of physicians changed jobs and another 8% retired during the pandemic. So, it’s more important than ever to have highly engaged, loyal employees. Research shows that highly engaged teams have 24% to 59% less turnover and 10% higher customer ratings, which affect the productivity, safety, and profitability of your business.

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Oscar Health inks first partnership for +Oscar Campaign Builder tool

Fierce Healthcare

Oscar Health inks first partnership for +Oscar Campaign Builder tool pminemyer Fri, 02/10/2023 - 11:52

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DarioHealth Integrates Dexcom CGM Data into Diabetes Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – DarioHealth announced a partnership with Dexcom , the global leader in real-time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology, to integrate its market-leading CGM data into Dario’s multi-chronic condition platform. – Dexcom CGM uses a small, wearable sensor to continuously measure and send glucose levels to a receiver or smart device, enabling people with diabetes to make real-time decisions about their health.

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Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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We Answer Your Latest Questions about Remote Therapeutic Monitoring: Part 3

Medbridge Education

The new CPT codes released by CMS in 2022 for remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) have opened up an exciting opportunity for many outpatient rehab providers, allowing them to bill for the remote management of their patients that many have already been performing—but there’s also a learning curve involved. In our three-part RTM FAQ series, we […] The post We Answer Your Latest Questions about Remote Therapeutic Monitoring: Part 3 appeared first on MedBridge Blog.

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Wellstar Expands Enterprise Virtual Reality Training with Moth+Flame

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Wellstar Health System extends its partnership with Moth+Flame to further utilize its virtual reality (VR) training technology. – The VR emotional intelligence training encourages Wellstar’s employees to build composure and gain practical experience in a highly realistic scenario by navigating difficult conversations and testing resiliency in an emotionally charged environment. – The experience helps Wellstar’s workforce development strategie

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Will Logistics Be Russia's Undoing in Ukraine?

The Rand Blog

Russia's experience in Ukraine one year in is an example of what happens when a nation tries to fight a war without fully considering the logistics and sustainment that go alongside such a fight. The consequences for failing to fully consider these concepts drove Russia into a prolonged conflict for which it was already ill-prepared a year ago, with increasingly dire consequences for its future.

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The Meteoric Rise Of Johns Hopkins’ CAPABLE Program

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Sarah Szanton, the dean of Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, has a thing for the tougher challenges in health care. She also has a knack for overcoming those. That has served her and the CAPABLE program well. That program, of course, is also known as “Community Aging in Place – Advancing Better Living for Elders.

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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Ibex’s AI-Powered Cancer Diagnostics Solution Obtains CE Mark

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Ibex Medical Analytics today announced that Galen™ Prostate has become the first standalone AI-powered cancer diagnostics solution to obtain CE Mark under Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation (IVDR) for supporting pathologists in the primary diagnosis of prostate biopsies. – Galen Prostate is the first standalone AI-based cancer diagnostics product of its kind certified under the IVDR. – During 2023, Ibex plans to migrate additional products, inc

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Senate Bill 9's Underwhelming First Year Shouldn't Be a Surprise; It Was by Design

The Rand Blog

In 2021, the California state Legislature passed legislation allowing a streamlined pathway for homeowners to produce duplexes and split lots. But a year after the law took effect, the resulting housing production pipeline looks to be trivial. Why has the law that some were convinced would make the sky fall barely registered?

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GE HealthCare to Acquire Caption Health to Expand AI-Guided Ultrasounds

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – GE HealthCare acquires Caption Health, Inc., a privately owned artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare leader that creates clinical applications to aid in early disease detection, using AI to assist in conducting ultrasound scans. – The acquisition supports GE HealthCare’s $3B Ultrasound business by adding AI-enabled image guidance to ultrasound device portfolios.

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Bankruptcy Court Doors Swing Open For Cannabis Companies, But Just Slightly

Triage Health Law

Are bankruptcy doors now opening for cannabis companies? A recent decision from a California bankruptcy court indicates perhaps so, at least for cannabis companies that are no longer operating. Squire Patton Boggs partner Mark Salzburg discusses this case and its implications on our Restructuring GlobalView blog, available at this link.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Referrals, quality of care and the human connection

Healthcare ECONOMIST

As a health economist who likes to think about the world in a quantitative manner, I do whatever I can to measure quality in a numeric manner. Thus, if I was visiting a primary care physician (PCP) and needed some specialist care, I would want the PCP to refer me to the specialist with the best quality ratings. However, a recent paper by Pany and McWilliams (2023) , the authors found that specialists often perform better when they have a personal relationship with the PCP.

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We Answer Your Latest Questions about Remote Therapeutic Monitoring: Part 3

Medbridge Education

The new CPT codes released by CMS in 2022 for remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) have opened up an exciting opportunity for many outpatient rehab providers, allowing them to bill for the remote management of their patients that many have already been performing—but there’s also a learning curve involved. In our three-part RTM FAQ series, we […] The post We Answer Your Latest Questions about Remote Therapeutic Monitoring: Part 3 appeared first on MedBridge Blog.

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How to Improve Medical Call Center CSAT Scores

Sequence Health

When it comes to health call centers , customer service is critical. And the CSAT score is one way to gauge how successful your phone operations are in meeting patients’ needs. Any quality assurance measure aims to improve the level of service, understanding, and results. However, it is necessary to implement tracking measures so that performance can be measured on an individual basis across all of the agents in a call center.

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3 Things Medical Billing Services Offer For Improved Collections

Best Medical Billing Company | Physicians Revenue Group, Inc.

prgseo February 10, 2023 3 things medical billing services offer for Improved Collections Most patients want to make their medical healthcare payments on time – however, some of these payments often arrive later than their expected dates. Sometimes patients might not make their payments until those payments have moved on to collections, which leads to additional fees for the practice.

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

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.

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Latest Nursing Home COVID-19 Data

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has posted the nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending January 29, 2023. (Please also view the NOTE at the end of this blog.) Comparing the January 29, 2023 data to the January 22, 2023 data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate increased 0.1% this week; Residents up to date with vaccines increased 0.5% again this past week; Staff primary vaccination completion rate decreased 0.1% this we

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Safe and Inclusive Spaces for UiM Colleagues Is an Imperative

Hospital Medicine

My family and I recently embarked on a Disney Cruise for our annual vacation. Excitement filled my 4-year-old daughter, Layla, because of the opportunity to meet with the princesses. Her suitcase stuffed with all the ballgowns she could carry; she wore a different dress every evening as she hoped to meet every princess on board [.] The post Safe and Inclusive Spaces for UiM Colleagues Is an Imperative appeared first on The Hospital Leader - The Official Blog of the Society of Hospital Medicine.

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Another Win for Providers: Texas Federal District Court Again Vacates Independent Dispute Resolution Rule for the No Surprises Act

Sheppard Health Law

On February 6, 2023, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled in favor of the Texas Medical Association [1] and vacated portions of the final rule adopted in August 2022 (the “August 2022 Final Rule”) that applied to the Independent Dispute Resolution (“IDR”) process created by the No Surprises Act (the “Act”). [2] The August 2022 Final Rule was adopted by the Departments of Labor, Treasury and Health and Human Services (the “Departments”) and addressed, in part,

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Denial Codes in Medical Billing: Everything You Need to Know

Etactics

There are between 5 and 10 percent medical claim denials on average, according to the AAFP. But this isn’t necessarily a set average. You see, there are many different studies that yield different results. Though not many of these results seem to fall below that range. Another report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for instance reports differently.

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

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.