Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2024

Lightfully Behavioral Health, a hybrid mental health provider, has launched a new offering to support college students. | Lightfully U is intended to support the more than 60% of college students who have at least one mental health condition. The offering is a virtual intensive outpatient program targeted at college students ages 18 through 25 with higher-acuity conditions.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Nuance Communications, part of Microsoft, announced the general availability of Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot for documentation assistance in Epic electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS Generative artificial intelligence has the potential to free clinicians from administrative tasks and increase clinical efficiencies. After months of collaboration, Nuance's DAX Copilot is available for full Epic EHR integration, the company said Thursday.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2024

Intermountain Health plans to shut down Saltzer Health, a multispecialty group the system acquired less than four years ago, if it’s unable to find a buyer by March 29, according to an announcement | Saltzer Health has more than 450 employees across 11 Idaho locations. It attributes its situation to "significant financial pressures," but said it is "optimistic" that at least some services could be sold to a new owner.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Mergers and acquisitions increased last year as health systems sought strong partners while expanding capabilities in “core” markets, the consultancy said.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2024

UnitedHealthcare is rolling out a new resource hub that seeks to make it easier for members to use wellness offerings while also easing the financial burden on employers. | UnitedHealthcare is rolling out a new resource hub that seeks to make it easier for members to use wellness offerings while also easing the financial burden on employers.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 19, 2024

It’s not yet clear how much the new Medicaid managed care contract is worth. The state’s previous contract with insurers, including Centene, allocated $6 billion in funds over five years.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 19, 2024

More than 150 health systems, hospitals and medical centers will deploy the Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot embedded within Epic, the Microsoft-owned company said.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2024

A new year brings a new approach to tracking health tech and digital health investments. | A new year means a new approach to tracking healthcare fundraising. Each week, Fierce Healthcare will publish a roundup of health tech and digital health financing rounds.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Minneapolis-based nonprofit will launch a nationwide search for a successor to Ric Magnuson, who has served Allina for over 25 years.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2024

Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 19, 2024

That is the answer Caswell-Jin et al. (2024) aim to answer. The authors used 4 cancer mortality models within CISNET for this study: Model D (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute). Used to define a set of disease states and implemented analytic formulations to estimate the association of interventions on transitions between these states, as well as on breast cancer incidence and mortality.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 19, 2024

With the start of a new year, home health leaders are looking ahead, and identifying their top priorities. Some of these areas of focus will directly address last year’s challenges, and some are proactive measures that will place them ahead. At Bayada Home Health Care, these priorities include focusing on the employee experience, as well as clinical model evolution.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2024

Tommy Carls, VP of Product Development & Marketing at Proprio Over the past decade, product development has undergone a transformative shift, driven by the integration of AI , machine learning, and data-driven approaches. Traditional methods that relied on user stories, prototype testing and customer research offered limited control over product development outcomes, often leaving success to multiple iterations of feasibility, testing and field assessment.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 19, 2024

Generally, home health agencies have expressed dissatisfaction with payment rates and reimbursement policies set by managed care companies. Negotiations around rates can often be contentious. In 2024, however, providers can win with the correct focuses in mind. “You don’t want a managed care strategy, you want a value-based care strategy,” Anne Tumlinson, founder and CEO of ATI Advisory, said during Aging Media Network’s Continuum conference.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2024

You’ve heard of food-as-medicine and exercise-as-medicine. Now we see the emergence of telecomms-as-medicine — or more specifically, a driver of health, access, and empowerment. Elevance Health, the health plan organization comprising XXX plans serving 117 million members, launched a program to channel mobile phones and data plans into the hands of some Medicaid plan enrollees, explained in the organization’s press release on the program.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 19, 2024

The home care provider HomeWell Care Services is again bolstering its franchisee support systems. Its Learning Lab – launched in May – has led to the “LaunchWell” program, which will help potential franchisees from all walks of life get accustomed to home care. LaunchWell will emphasize continued learning, as opposed to live, long in-person sessions that HomeWell didn’t believe franchisees were getting a lot out of.

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NASHP

JANUARY 19, 2024

Considerations for States Interested in Applying for the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released its latest total cost-of-care model, the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model, with the goals of slowing growth in health care costs, improving population health, and advancing health equity ( see NASHP’s summary of the model here ).

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Icanotes

JANUARY 19, 2024

A Digital Resource and Intervention Guide for Children and Adolescents with ADHD A. Overview of ADHD in children and adolescents Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting 11 percent of school-age children. Children with ADHD often experience delays in independent functioning and may behave younger than their peers.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

According to Equifax, weak billing practices cost doctors roughly $125 billion every year. So what does it mean to have strong billing practices? Having a fortified revenue cycle management system! We’ve gone into detail about the inner mechanisms of the revenue cycle before. But what about the importance of accurate payment posting? Ensuring a strong cash flow and seamless revenue cycle experience relies on efficient payment posting.

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Icanotes

JANUARY 19, 2024

A Digital Resource and Intervention Guide for Children and Adolescents with ADHD A. Overview of ADHD in children and adolescents Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting 11 percent of school-age children. Children with ADHD often experience delays in independent functioning and may behave younger than their peers.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 19, 2024

On January 17, 2024, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (collectively, the “Departments”) and the Office of Personnel Management issued a notice that they will reopen the period for submitting comments on the proposed rule , “Federal Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) Operations” (the “Proposed Rule”) under the No Surprises Act (the “Act”).

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2024

8 digital health and life sciences executives share their hot takes and insights from the recent annual JPM Healthcare Conference 2024 Virgil Bretz, co-founder and CEO of MacroHealth “The annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference is still one of the most efficient ways to meet with capital partners. Other conferences are increasingly attracting the investment community, such as HLTH, but none are as concentrated as JP Morgan.

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