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Medicare Sequestration’s Return Puts Home Health Agencies in Financial Jeopardy

Home Health Care

Home health agencies and other Medicare-reimbursed health care providers are just a couple weeks away from the return of sequestration. For many agencies, the restart of the 2% cut will merely be a return to normal, pre-pandemic business. For others, however, it presents another cash-flow disruption that could, at worst, put some smaller operators out of business or, at the very least, add financial strain.

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What Healthcare Leaders Need to Do Now About Ransomware

HIT Consultant

Aaron Biehl, Chief Operating Officer, Reliable IT. If ransomware is not a topic of conversation around any healthcare organization’s boardroom table, directors and senior executives may be exposing the organization (and themselves) to considerable risk. Here’s a guide to ransomware trends for 2022 and steps healthcare leaders can take to help protect their organizations.

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Monday Morning Update 3/21/22

HIStalk

Top News Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) demands that the VA.

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Backed by $13 Million in Funding, Another Home-Focused Oncology Care Enabler Launches

Home Health Care

Yet another company is tasking itself with taking on oncology care outside of brick-and-mortar settings. This time its Canopy Health, which launched out of stealth Thursday, having already raised $13 million. The funding round was led by GSR Ventures, with Samsung, Next and UpWest also contributing. An “intelligent care platform” for oncology, Canopy works with oncology practices to care for patients when they are outside of the hospital.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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History and Future of the “ISPOR Value Flower”

Healthcare ECONOMIST

That is the name of a recent paper in Value in Health from three of pharmacoeconomics field’s leading scholars: Peter Neumann, Lou Garrison and Richard Wilke. The paper begins by comparing the ISPOR value flower against the recommendations from the Second Panel on Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine. Intervention types. The ISPOR Value Flower focused almost exclusively on pharmaceuticals whereas the Second Panel considered interventions more generally.

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BrightStar Care Appoints Chief Development Officer; Addus Promotes SVP to Executive Vice President

Home Health Care

BrightStar Care names chief development officer. BrightStar Care has named Pete First its chief development officer. “Pete came to BrightStar Care with more than two decades of franchise experience under his belt and he quickly took the brand to new heights,” Shelly Sun, founder and CEO of BrightStar Care, said in a statement. “I am thrilled to be welcoming Pete to the C-Suite, and no one is more qualified and equipped to run our franchise development team and efforts and continue the growth of