Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Medicaid health plans try to protect members—and profits—during unwinding pminemyer Fri, 03/10/2023 - 13:44

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 10, 2023

The Washington-based nonprofit system also posted a $1.7 billion operating loss in the same period.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Feds shut down tech investor Silicon Valley Bank, major investor in health tech, biotech companies fdiamond Fri, 03/10/2023 - 14:49

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 10, 2023

What You Should Know: – Medidata announced that Allucent , a contract research organization (CRO) bringing innovation to biopharma companies, is expanding the global use of Medidata’s Clinical Cloud to advance its end-to-end clinical trial operations offering. – The agreement expands Allucent’s existing utilization of Medidata technologies.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

These are the major challenges hospital executives expect to face this year fdiamond Fri, 03/10/2023 - 15:47

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 10, 2023

What You Should Know: – ReKlame Health , a provider of culturally competent, affordable and empathetic behavioral healthcare for BIPOC communities, announced that it has joined Cigna as an in-network mental healthcare provider in New York, New Jersey, and Florida. – ReKlame is now in-network with all of the nation’s leading insurance plans, including Optum, United Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Oxford and Oscar.

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Bill Of Health

MARCH 10, 2023

By Heather Payne and Jennifer D. Oliva Gas appliances’ health impacts pose a grave danger to tenant health and safety. In a forthcoming article , we argue that the mere presence of natural gas appliances in the home renders a dwelling uninhabitable due to their potential health harms. We further contend that tenants should invoke the implied warranty of habitability to eliminate the continued exposure to natural gas appliance-generated indoor air pollutants.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Political headwinds grow against CMMI accelerated approval drug price model rking Fri, 03/10/2023 - 16:16

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Home Health Care

MARCH 10, 2023

Home health employment is expected to rise steadily. The industry will eventually have to fill an estimated 5 million jobs by 2040, according to a new report. Those numbers are according to a new study that took a closer look at the steady growth of the senior care industry and what the job market will look like as demand continues to rise. From Argentum , “The Workforce Projections for Senior Care” uses forecasts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

New female-led, encrypted period tracker app Embody to launch this summer agliadkovskaya Fri, 03/10/2023 - 14:34

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Home Health Care

MARCH 10, 2023

Addus HomeCare Corporation (Nasdaq: ADUS) is performing well. But, to perform better, it wants to grow its home health segment and more fully engage in value-based care contracting. Now, Chairman and CEO Dirk Allison sees M&A as one of the key focuses in the near-term future. Also top of mind for Allison is the continuing ability to keep turnover rate down and payer diversification.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Senators urge CMS to close 'loopholes' in payer price transparency rule pminemyer Fri, 03/10/2023 - 16:12

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Home Health Care

MARCH 10, 2023

Home-based care providers, and others in the post-acute care space, need to start collecting the right kind of data in order to get quality outcomes and reach growth targets. Being on top of Minimum Data Set (MDS) collection and having accurate and detailed coding can be two of the most important aspects of improving outcomes. “If your coding is done accurately and correctly — and if you’re able to leverage your MDS — you can start to figure out ways to use that data in meaningful ways,” Pathway

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Providence ends 2022 with −8.8% operating margin, $6.

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

The concept of ”impactful projection“has become a topic of heightened interest in the Australian strategic discourse, as pundits wait on further information from the Defense Strategic Review. But is the concept underpinned by a fundamentally mistaken assumption?

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

February jobs report shows strong gains for hospitals, senior care dmuoio Fri, 03/10/2023 - 12:03

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 10, 2023

What You Should Know: – Clinical telemedicine company Beam Healthcare has landed a significant investment from Decathlon Capital Partners. Details of the revenue-based funding investment were not disclosed. – Beam Healthcare plans to utilize the funding toward expanding into new geographic markets and continuing its investment into the development of enhanced patient care programs.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Ascension reports −2.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2023

As our homes and health care services continue to converge, we can see signposts of direct-to-consumer strategies from the pillbox (where DTC is a mature thing) to clinical care in peoples’ hands (and on their preferred technology platforms). Some examples this week make this point, which taken together demonstrate the portfolio of ways more people – as health consumers and caregivers – can engage in their health, well-being, and clinical care.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Here's how startup Zaya Care got insurers on board with its European-style approach to maternal care aburky Fri, 03/10/2023 - 16:47

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

This weekly recap focuses on U.S. security cooperation with China and Russia, artificial intelligence, consequences of Russia's war in Ukraine, and more.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

MARCH 10, 2023

Interesting paper from Ziedan, Simon and Wing (2023) : The contraction in health care consumption at the start of the pandemic provides insight into central economic questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we compare people who had outpatient appointments scheduled for dates in 30 day periods immediately before and after the Covid-19 emergency declaration.

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Best Medical Billing Company | Physicians Revenue Group, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2023

prgseo March 10, 2023 6 Tips to Improve the Revenue Cycle Management for Your Practice Healthcare providers remain occupied with their immense job responsibilities and ignore the most crucial aspect of their medical practice: quick account receivables. Revenue cycle management improves your healthcare financial system by adding stability and increasing workflow efficiency.

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Sheppard Health Law

MARCH 10, 2023

California has a new regulatory review process that could have implications for healthcare mergers and acquisitions and similar transactions in the state. By way of background, after nearly two years of negotiations with state legislators, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law healthcare omnibus bill SB 184 on June 30, 2022, which created the new Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA).

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 10, 2023

What You Should Know: – Gainwell Technologies (Gainwell), an innovator in healthcare technology solutions, announced that the nine-module Medicaid system it designed and implemented for Kansas is the first fully modular system to achieve the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Streamlined Modular Certification. The deployment marks Kansas as the first state with a completely modular system to receive federal matching funds from the day the system went live only ten months ag

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On March 9, 2023, CMS posted QSO-23-09-Hospital. The initial 4-pages of this document are the Memorandum with the remaining 17 pages are the CMS Condition of Participation, Hospital Appendix A – QAPI Guidance Updates.

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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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Health IT Analytics

MARCH 10, 2023

A systematic review… read more

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Everyone plays a role in patient safety and quality health care. CDC and its partners provide expertise, data, and programs for safe health care to support public health, healthcare workers, patients and caregivers. How Can I Be a Safe Patient? Speak up. Talk to your healthcare provider about any questions or worries.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 10, 2023

Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, is the only hospital in the state of Nebraska exclusively dedicated to pediatric care, serving a five-state region. In 2022, it nearly doubled its capacity with the opening of the Hubbard Center for Children, adding 100 beds for a total of 243 beds. That move expanded surgical suites, the neonatal intensive care unit, the pediatric ICU, the hematology/oncology floor and the cardiac care center.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has posted the nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending February 26, 2023. Comparing the February 26, 2023 data to the February 19, 2023 data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate remained the same as past 2 weeks; Residents up to date with vaccines increased 0.2% this past week; Staff primary vaccination completion rate decreased 0.1% from again this past week; Staff up to date with vacci

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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.