Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2023

Home care industry touts bipartisan bill to expand Medicare in-home benefits, reimbursement dmuoio Mon, 04/24/2023 - 14:08

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 24, 2023

With the right payment integrity approach and finely tuned focus, payers will find the exceptional service execution required to thrive in today’s environment.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2023

As generative AI makes headway in healthcare, executive leaders still struggle to scale up breakthrough tech aburky Mon, 04/24/2023 - 13:23

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 24, 2023

It's the largest enforcement action against COVID-19 healthcare fraud schemes to date, according to regulators.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2023

AppliedVR's latest partnership expands covered access to VR therapeutics for veterans, active military hlandi Mon, 04/24/2023 - 10:46

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 24, 2023

The operator logged an increase in admissions and a decrease in contract labor spending during the first quarter.

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Bill Of Health

APRIL 24, 2023

By Michael S. Sinha, Edna Besic, and Melissa Mann Members of Congress have been focused on drug pricing for the last several years, culminating recently in new drug pricing provisions within the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. One reason for our drug pricing problem is that we allow manufacturers to charge whatever the market will bear for a new therapeutic.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2023

Clover Health's stock could be delisted from the Nasdaq, company says pminemyer Mon, 04/24/2023 - 14:04

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 24, 2023

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2023

Health spending rebounded in 2021 after pandemic-driven declines: HCCI pminemyer Mon, 04/24/2023 - 12:48

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The Rand Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

China's aggressive activities are presenting the greatest sustained challenge to the rules-based international order since the end of World War II. To posture for success in this new era, the United States could create a civilian equivalent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff with a mandate to manage the expanding role of U.S. civilian departments in geopolitical and economic competition.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 24, 2023

CenterWell Home Health – a subsidiary of Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) – has agreed to acquire Trilogy Home Health. Based in West Palm Beach, Trilogy has 11 locations across the state of Florida. The company provides home health care, personal care and care coordination services. Trilogy’s employees were notified about the deal on Monday, a source told Home Health Care News.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Chiefy , a NYC-based cloud platform that helps surgical teams seamlessly embed quality and communication best practices, today announced it has raised $4.2M in seed funding led by LionBird , with participation from Nina Capital and Emerge Ventures. – The company plans to use the seed funding to accelerate and expand product development and customer acquisition.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 24, 2023

Given their shared goals of closing care gaps, home-based primary care providers should be home health providers’ natural ally. While that has been the case for some organizations, it hasn’t been for others. Emily Cook, the CEO of Welcome Health — SCAN Group’s home-based primary care medical group — believes that the fragmented nature of the health care sector is making it more difficult for providers to form fruitful relationships.

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Healthy Debate

APRIL 24, 2023

The post ‘There’s always a way forward’: Mentors help students deal with devastating Match Day results appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 24, 2023

There are only two options when dealing with a staffing shortage: getting more people or making better use of current people. Lee Teslik, the founder and CEO of Reverence, is particularly interested in the second option. “Making better use of your existing people is a combination of deploying people in the most thoughtful possible way and also making it feel good for them,” Teslik said at Home Health Care News’ Capital + Strategy event.

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HIStalk

APRIL 24, 2023

As a primary care physician at heart, I know.

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Health Business Group

APRIL 24, 2023

Communication between patients and doctors has always been a challenge, particularly in the increasingly digital age. In a recent episode of the HealthBiz podcast, host David E. Williams sat down with Ethan Bechtel , CEO and Co-Founder of OhMD , a HIPAA compliant texting and telehealth platform, to discuss the benefits of texting in healthcare and the journey towards building a sustainable business in this space.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – ClaimsXten Portfolio , a claims editing software business owned by TPG Capital, today announced it has rebranded as Lyric. – In addition, the company announced the appointment of Raj Ronanki as Chief Executive Officer. Ronanki most recently served as Senior Vice President of Elevance Health and President of Carelon Digital Platforms.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted nursing home COVID-19 data for the week ending April 9, 2023. Comparing the April 9, 2023 data to the April 2, 2023 data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate decreased 0.2% this past week; Residents up to date with vaccines remained the same this past week; Staff primary vaccination completion rate decreased 0.1% this past week; Staff up to date remained increased 0.2% this past week; An

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Children’s Mercy Kansas City launches its Patient Progression Hub – a hospital operations center that uses artificial intelligence (AI), predictive analytics and real-time information to optimize care progression and coordination from the time a patient’s admission is requested until discharged. – The Patient Progression Hub is part of a strategic collaboration with GE Healthcare to improve access, streamline the flow of patients, enhance discharge

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare April 21, 2023, CMS posted Transmittal 11988 with same title as this blog. An accompanying MLN Matters Number: MM13149 was also posted.

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Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 24, 2023

Tom McCann, Growth Strategy & Business Development, Instabase The prevailing global economic conditions are negatively impacting the healthcare industry. Continuing staff shortages, endemic COVID-19, high inflation rates, and supply chain disruptions continue to drive medical costs higher, worsening what is already a persistent challenge for health insurers.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare April 24, 2023 NOW AVAILABLE: Optional State Assessment (OSA) Item Set and OSA Manual The Optional State Assessment (OSA) Item Set, OSA Manual, and OSA Change History table are now available in the Downloads section on the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Manual page.

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NASHP

APRIL 24, 2023

Rates of maternal mortality in the U.S. remain consistently high , with most deaths occurring postpartum. There are significant racial disparities among those affected by maternal mortality. Non-Hispanic Black women disproportionately face adverse maternal health outcomes. Pregnancy-related mortality rates among Black women are two to three times the rate for women of other races.

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Health Advances

APRIL 24, 2023

This is the fourth and final installment of our ongoing 2022 CNS year in review. See below for our the other blogs in the series: CNS Year in Review: Introduction and Large CNS Diseases CNS Year in Review: Going Digital CNS Year in Review: Novel Modalities Johnson and Johnson (Janssen), Roche, Biogen, Novartis and AbbVie are the leading biopharma players in the CNS space, with collective CNS sales in excess of $30B and active pipelines spanning neurodegeneration, psychiatry, and neurodevelopment

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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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NASHP

APRIL 24, 2023

States play an essential role in providing and overseeing behavioral health care, and many states have longstanding strategies to increase access to high quality, behavioral health interventions. State innovations in Medicaid (now the largest public payer of behavioral health care) along with strategic deployment of federal grants have provided a foundation for the behavioral health safety net.

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Sheppard Health Law

APRIL 24, 2023

On April 17, 2023 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2024 Final Rule (the “Notice”) that includes standards for issuers and Marketplaces, and requirements for agents, brokers, web-brokers and others. The Notice implements various changes previously proposed by CMS, including (i) requiring provider networks to comply with network adequacy standards and delaying th

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Healthcare Leadership

APRIL 24, 2023

Last month on HCLDR we discussed the ideal patient discharge experience (patient separation for those in the EU and Australia). It got me thinking about another aspect of the patient journey that does not get attention – patient transfers and transitions between healthcare organizations. Last week at the annual HIMSS Conference (HIMSS23) I had the chance to talk about patient transfers with several attendees and the general consensus was that we should be doing more because (a) it’s an uns

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Health IT Analytics

APRIL 24, 2023

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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.