Healthcare Success

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Help Providers Win New Patients from Large Local Businesses with These Tactics. Large or dominant employers in your local communities are excellent targets of opportunity for new patients and cases. Most healthcare providers have local businesses that are (or could be) a source of new business. Whether it’s a company that's conveniently located across the street, or a dominant employer in the community, your providers want their business—here’s how you can help them win it.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association has gathered a number of speakers to share their expertise on integrating virtual care into healthcare delivery. WHY IT MATTERS. ATA is taking the week to encourage telehealth solution providers, hospital systems and medical practices, patient advocacy leaders, policymakers and other stakeholders to examine hybrid care models that include in-person and virtual care.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

During the pandemic, unemployment rates among healthcare workers rose to 3.2% while those for non-healthcare workers rose to 6.1%, according to research published Monday in JAMA.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Only 4% of health care payments in the U.S. are pure fee-for-service (FFS) these days. “The end of pure FFS is near,” according to The State and Science of Value-Based Care , a report-out of survey research from Innovaccer and Morning Consult. Innovaccer, a health cloud/data analytics company, worked with Morning Consult to do deep-dive interviews with 75 senior health care executives; research was conducted in November and December 2021, so these perspectives represent those of heal

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The credit rating agency’s downgrade for Rhode Island’s largest health system is another sign of mounting financial pressures on hospitals.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

What You Should Know: – Lyfegen , a global health tech SaaS company driving the world’s transition from volume to value-based healthcare for high-cost drugs raises $8M in Series A financing round led by aMoon , with additional participation from APEX Ventures and others. – Lyfegen’s value-based contracting software is used by healthcare payers and leading pharma companies, including Novartis, Roche, MSD, Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) and Johnson & Johnson.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

David Lundquist, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Augmedix. Burnout is a growing situation that has been slowly undermining the productivity of physicians and their staff. And in recent years, it’s gotten worse as demands from patients, documentation, and regulatory requirements increase. Adding to the situation are challenges related to added technology, the need to be virtual and to meet patients where they are, and the need to keep up with constantly changing information and landscape in terms of w

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

When it comes to Medicare Advantage (MA) versus traditional Medicare, members of the former use less home health care and post-acute care in general. That’s according to a recent analysis from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). The analysis examines 62 studies that look at the experiences of MA and traditional Medicare beneficiaries, including utilization.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

What You Should Know: – Eko, a digital health company applying machine learning in the fight against heart and lung disease, today announced that it was awarded a $2.7M Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Direct Phase II grant by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). – The grant will fund the development of a machine learning algorithm that detects and stratifies pulmonary hypertension (PH) using phonocardiogram (PCG) and elect

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), the wheels are already in motion for the expansion of its senior-focused, value-based primary care clinics. As part of Humana’s joint venture with private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS), the company expects to pay between $450 and $550 million to acquire the first group of the JV’s senior-focused primary care centers.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The Future of Aging Policy: A Snapshot of State Priorities September 20, 2022 / by Kimberly Hodges , Wendy Fox-Grage , and Hemi Tewarson. With a projected population of adults age 65+ to reach 80.8 million by 2040, the health and well-being of older adults – and the service systems that support them — will become even more imperative. State health policies help to shape these services through legislation, funding, and regulation.

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The Rand Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The United States largely waits for a disaster to strike and then spends billions to repair damages. Investing in resilience today can significantly reduce the costs to recover after a disaster strikes.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. As the leaders of some of the largest home health organizations in the country chatted about pain points on stage at Home Health Care News’ FUTURE event last week in New York City, the idea of scheduling had an outsized role in the conversation. “We see from our tools that the [drivers of turnover] are predominantly going to be constant scheduling changes,” Amedisys Inc.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The Economist has an interesting review of the book Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet. The book is an argument that more people in the world is a positive, not a negative development. In recent years, China has used the one-child policy to reduce population growth; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned whether it is ethical to have children due to the additional environmental impact.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Medicare’s New Rural Emergency Hospital Designation — Considerations for States September 20, 2022 / by Rebekah Falkner and Sam Mermin. Congress established a new provider type, Rural Emergency Hospitals (REH) in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 to address mounting concerns around closures of rural hospitals. Effective January 1, 2023, eligible hospitals may seek an REH designation, which would result in an increase in Medicare reimbursement for relevant outpatient services and a mont

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

What You Should Know: – Tempus , an $8B precision medicine company, is providing genomic sequencing for 300 eligible pediatric cancer patients annually through their new collaboration with the Children’s Oncology Group (COG). Tempus’ support for COG – a leader in pediatric oncology research – will assist with matching patients to clinical trials like the Pediatric MATCH Screening Trial APEC1621SC ( NCT03155620 ), which is studying the effectiveness of genetic testing-directed treatment in

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Effective October 4, 2022, a report retention time period will be applied to user-requested or auto-generated Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) reports in the internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES). When the report retention changes are implemented, reports that are older than the pre-defined number of days will be permanently deleted by the iQIES system.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

What You Should Know: – Pretzel Therapeutics, a biotechnology company harnessing the intricacies of mitochondrial biology to develop groundbreaking therapies, launched today with $72.5M in Series A financing to pioneer novel therapies to modulate mitochondrial function. – The financing was led by ARCH Venture Partners and Mubadala Capital with participating investors HealthCap , Cambridge Innovation Capital , Cambridge Enterprise , Angelini Ventures, GV, Invus, Eir Ventures , GU Vent

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Effective October 4, 2022, a report retention time period will be applied to user-requested or auto-generated Home Health Agency (HHA) reports in the internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES). When the report retention changes are implemented, reports that are older than the pre-defined number of days will be permanently deleted by the iQIES system.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today Scratch Financial , an LA-based financial technology company connecting patients and medical practices in the care now, pay later economy announced it has raised $35M in Series C funding led by Norwest Venture Partners. – Scratch, a business-to-business buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) fintech company helps patients focus on what’s most important – caring now – for themselves or for their pet – and paying later in a way that better meets their

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The September update of Appendix B to the RAI 3.0 User’s Manual contains changes to the list of State RAI Coordinators, MDS Automation Coordinators, RAI Panel members, and CMS locations and contacts. The file is located in the Downloads section of this website. The direct link to the September Appendix B is here.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

OurCrowd Launches $200M Global Health Equity Fund. What You Should Know: – Global venture firm OurCrowd launches the $200M Global Health Equity Fund (GHEF) in collaboration with the WHO Foundation. – The fund team will be led by OurCrowd CEO, Jon Medved, and OurCrowd Managing Partner, Dr. Morris Laster, with the support of the WHO Foundation’s Chief Impact Investment Officer, Geetha Tharmaratnam.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Effective October 4, 2022, a report retention time period will be applied to user-requested or auto-generated Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) reports in the internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES). When the report retention changes are implemented, reports that are older than the pre-defined number of days will be permanently deleted by the iQIES system.

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Etactics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

86% of all healthcare claim denials are avoidable. The biggest takeaway from that statistic? A lot of the revenue loss that healthcare organizations experience is preventable. Why is this the case? I mean, if you told any business that 86% of the revenue that they’re losing on an annual basis could be re-obtained they would instantly implement the workflows necessary to do so.

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Solution Reach

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

It’s like a meme of healthcare practices offering their patients better and more accessible care. Their patients respond by throwing cash at them, saying “Please, take my money!” Though that may be a bit of an overstatement, the sentiment still rings true.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. On September 24 2022, a minor update to the MDS ASAP system will occur. Items included in this release include: * Update to the list of ICD-10 codes allowable in item I0020B for PPS and stand-alone OBRAs as of 10/1/2022. The list of allowable codes for I0020B are found on the MDS Technical Information Page, link below, based on the target date of the assessment. * Implementation of the MDS Errata V3.00.8 issues 18 and 19, whi

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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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HIStalk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Telemedicine Company That Pushed Ketamine on TikTok Announces Its ‘Closure’.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By Zain Rizvi. By December 2020, the world had astonishingly powerful tools against COVID-19. New mRNA vaccines, underpinned by decades of public investment , had been authorized by global regulators. Yet the promise of the vaccines was unevenly realized: deep fault lines emerged between those who were able to secure vaccines and those left behind, or what South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa called “ vaccine apartheid.”.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This article is sponsored by CitusHealth. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Brittany Isaacs, Manager, Customer Success at CitusHealth, to learn how providers are approaching technology to reduce burnout, improve operations and streamline the care process. She highlights the importance of staff feedback and input in key technology decisions, and explains how this balance can lead to better productivity and health outcomes across the organization.

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Michele Late

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022 is Get Ready Day! We celebrate Get Ready Day on the third Tuesday of every September, which is also National Preparedness Month. Get Ready Day is a chance for people to prepare their homes and their loved ones for emergencies like natural disasters or infectious diseases. Here are some tools you can use to share and celebrate Get Ready Day with us!

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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.