Healthcare It News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Research shows that apathy is a significant challenge for people living with dementia. They lose the ability to take initiative, which has an enormous effect on their emotional and physical wellbeing. This makes the disorder much harder to treat. THE PROBLEM Andrus on Hudson, based in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, serves and cares for individuals ("residents," to reflect the environment in which they receive care) who have various types of dementia.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

SDOH startup Spatially Health partners with Florida ACO amid new CMS rules on equity agliadkovskaya Fri, 01/27/2023 - 13:40

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 27, 2023

In a lawsuit filed Thursday, Cigna alleged that Amy Bricker’s appointment to chief product officer of CVS’s consumer segment places the payer’s trade secrets at risk and violates her noncompete agreement.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

CVS Health launches initiative with Meharry Medical College, Sinai Chicago aiming to reduce disparities in marginalized communities agliadkovskaya Fri, 01/27/2023 - 12:25

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 27, 2023

The notorious ransomware group, known as the Hive, has impacted some of the nation’s most critical industries.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

Majority of patients repeatedly provide duplicate health information, Carta Healthcare survey finds aburky Fri, 01/27/2023 - 16:21

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

'I cry and no one cares': Medscape survey shows doctor burnout, depression is getting worse agliadkovskaya Fri, 01/27/2023 - 15:35

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

This weekly recap focuses on how the United States can help avoid a long war in Ukraine, responding to the gun violence crisis, limits on teachers’ instruction, and more.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

FDA panel approves path toward one-shot yearly COVID vaccine fdiamond Fri, 01/27/2023 - 09:17

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – Smile CDR Inc. (doing business as Smile Digital Health) (“Smile”), a FHIR® health data fabric (HDF) and exchange solutions provider raises $30M in Series B growth capital led by existing investors including UPMC Enterprises. – Founded in 2016, Smile’s HDF platform uses industry-leading HDF architecture and ONC-compliant, event-driven FHIR APIs to allow healthcare providers, payers and IT vendors to build secure, composable and scalable data i

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

HCA Healthcare closes out 2022 with revenue gains, lingering capacity constraints dmuoio Fri, 01/27/2023 - 12:42

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – AKASA™ , the leading developer of AI for healthcare operations, released findings from a survey conducted on its behalf by YouGov. – The findings highlight how patients with high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) suffer the downstream effects of a complex medical billing process, including surprise medical bills, inaccuThe findings highlight how patients with high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) suffer the downstream effects of a complex medical billing process,

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

Cigna sues CVS, former exec Amy Bricker over noncompete agreement pminemyer Fri, 01/27/2023 - 12:20

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JANUARY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – Tia , the modern medical home for women, announced that it is teaming up with Cedars-Sinai , one of California’s leading health systems, to expand access to primary and specialty care for women across Los Angeles. Together, the two healthcare leaders will provide and enhance high-quality physical, mental and reproductive healthcare for more than 100,000 women throughout the Los Angeles region. – The deal — which includes opening multiple clinics througho

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Senators introduced bills to reform PBMs after stalling out in last Congress rking Fri, 01/27/2023 - 15:23

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JANUARY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – TRIPP , the award-winning global XR wellness company, announced an investment and partnership in Equa Health , the company bringing a clinically validated approach to mindfulness training. – Through the partnership, TRIPP will leverage Equa Health’s mindfulness approach, developed over 15 years with research from Carnegie Mellon University, to launch a series of clinically validated meditations in virtual reality.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

Pearl Health clinches $75M backed by a16z to scale up value-based care tech hlandi Fri, 01/27/2023 - 17:00

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CDC

JANUARY 27, 2023

Abigail L. Carlson, MD, MPH, Physician, Project Firstline, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, CDC With assistance from Mia Frederick (contractor, TANAQ) a writer for CDC’s Project Firstline in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. Over the past few months, there has been an increase in respiratory virus activity nationwide, causing additional strain on an already overburdened healthcare system.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

Kaiser Permanente earmarks $25M for gun violence prevention research, collaboration dmuoio Fri, 01/27/2023 - 09:34

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 27, 2023

Lawmakers are hoping for success the second time around. On Thursday, Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and a host of other cosponsors reintroduced the Better Care Better Jobs Act into the Senate. The other lawmakers included Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), energy and commerce ranking member Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA.) and 39 cosponsors in the Senate.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 27, 2023

In the past, I have written about the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM), including an overview of the EOM program as well as a more detailed review of EOM’s payment methodology. A new paper in JAMA Health Forum by Kocher and Adashi (2023) describes their perspective on the EOM program. First, they provide a nice overview of the program: The EOM is a voluntary 6-month, 2-sided, risk-based payment model for clinicians caring for Medicare patients with 7 common cancer types beginning on July 1,

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 27, 2023

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – Innovaccer Inc. announced that UpStream Health care, one of the fastest-growing value-based primary healthcare provider solutions in the country, has entered into a multi-year partnership agreement to more than double its population on Innovaccer’s cloud-native platform over the next year, and will use it to scale UpStream’s unique value-based care model nationwide. – The expanded relationship between the two companies comes on the heels of UpStream’s recent $

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 27, 2023

Curating a specific plan based on a home health provider’s needs, deficiencies and vulnerabilities is key to having successful Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) programs. That was the message from Tammy Stewart, clinical consultant with Healthcare Provider Solutions Inc. during a presentation on building a successful QAPI after the nationwide expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model.

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The Rand Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Japan's new strategic documents appear to demonstrate a recognition in Tokyo that it must do more for its own defense in the face of unprecedented security challenges. The dedication of resources, pursuit of new capabilities, and overarching commitment to a more robust defense are all significant moves that represent landmark change by one of America's key allies.

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Icanotes

JANUARY 27, 2023

How to Transition From Insurance to Private Pay Therapists and counselors dealing with insurance companies often spend too much time writing notes and completing documentation to file claims and get reimbursed. In a study representing U.S. physicians, psychiatrists reported spending the most time on administrative tasks. This survey suggested that going into private practice and accepting few or no insurance plans at all can help behavioral health professionals circumvent these burdens.

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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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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Today, January 17, 2023, CMS posted QSO-23-08-HOSPICE with the same title as this blog. This Memorandum is 196 pages in length, with the actual revised Appendix M starting on page 25. There are 3 Attachments with Attachment III being the Transmittal – Advanced Copy: There’s a lot of red ink in Appendix M, denoting significant revisions/updates.

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Health IT Analytics

JANUARY 27, 2023

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has posted MLN Matters Number: MM13020 (3 pages) relating to Change Request 13020. When disaster conditions (such as hurricane or wildfire) make submission of OASIS assessments impossible, Medicare may issue a waiver indicating OASIS submission is waived. In this case, HHAs should report condition code DR on their claim to show billing under the waiver.

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Health IT Analytics

JANUARY 27, 2023

A study to be published in… read more

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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.