Tue.Jul 19, 2022

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ACA marketplace premiums poised to jump

Health Care Dive

Health insurers' preliminary filings with state regulators point to a 10% median bump in rates for enrollees in 2023, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Groups doubles down on telehealth with a mobile app to treat opioid addiction

Healthcare It News

Like many healthcare provider organizations, Groups, a value-based care provider of opioid addiction treatment, had to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic overnight. THE PROBLEM. In order to keep members safe, the organization made the decision to close all 120 of its clinics across the country and transition to 100% virtual opioid use disorder treatment services.

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Health data breaches slowing from 2021's record high, report suggests

Health Care Dive

Malicious attacks were the No. 1 cause of breaches for the sixth year in a row, according to a new report from Fortified Health Security.

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Patient facing tools should be designed with input from the disabled community

Healthcare It News

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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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RPA Medical Billing Services: The future of Healthcare Industry

p3care

Why RPA is the Future of the Medical Billing Industry? RPA is the future of the medical billing industry because with its use, there is a lesser chance of errors and mistakes in the claim compilation process and the speed of work gets faster. Here is a glimpse of what RPA medical billing services do. Automated Data Entry . In medical billing and coding , the most time-taking part is data entry.

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SCAN Group invests in medical transportation firm in push to diversify

Health Care Dive

The deal aims to reduce the barriers seniors face in getting to healthcare appointments and builds on the group’s other recent investments.

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Six Sigma

Life Qi

What is Six Sigma? In this blog, we are going to be finding out more about Six Sigma - an improvement methodology created by Bill Smith , who is sometimes known as the ‘father of Six Sigma.’ Along with some colleagues, Bill Smith developed the methodology when he was at Motorola in the 1980s, based on Japanese quality methods that he had learned. This systematic approach to improvement focuses on reducing variance and eliminating defects and at its heart is the belief that in order to improve pr

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Can Health Plans Lead Us Towards Data-Driven Health Equity?

HIT Consultant

Jessica Bonham-Werling, Payer and Provider Solutions Marketing at Redox. The Institute for Healthcare improvement indicates that twice as many healthcare organizations cite health equity as a top priority today when compared to 2019. It may feel like the COVID-19 pandemic just made us collectively realize that health disparities exist, but they have been acknowledged in academic, government, and philanthropic spheres for over 4 decades.

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Supporting complex oncology care close to home

Meditech

Conway Regional Health System may be a small hospital, but we have a big presence in our community. When given the choice, our patients want to stay close to home for their healthcare needs, rather than make the long trip to larger hospitals. It’s up to us to offer the comprehensive services that will meet those needs.

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Humanity Health Raises $6M to Advance Health Equity Through Inclusive Leadership

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Humanity Health , a New York City-based career acceleration and talent sourcing platform for underrepresented leaders in healthcare and life sciences, has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Jumpstart Nova with follow-on participation from Deerfield Management. – Humanity Health will use the new funding to expand its base of C-Suite and executive-level leaders who are members of the Humanity Talent Network.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Despite Economic Uncertainty, Optimism Persists Among Startups in Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

Several digital health darlings that have raised tens of millions of dollars over the past few years are now scrambling to survive. Those focused on home-based care — for the most part — tend to be the exception. Economic uncertainty, regulatory pressure and other factors have contributed to a dip in digital health investment in 2022, at least compared to a record-setting 2021, when startups hauled in $29.1 billion in funding, according to Rock Health data.

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Caption Health Receives CE Mark for AI Ultrasound Tech

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Caption Health , the leader in using artificial intelligence (AI) and services to improve heart ultrasound access, today announced that it has received a CE Mark for its Caption AI™ technology platform. – This certification represents the first step in making Caption Health’s industry-leading technology platform available outside the US, and highlights the company’s strong clinical and regulatory track record as it uses AI and ultrasound to deliver better card

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Home Health Care Gained a Greater Share of Post-Acute Admissions Post-COVID

Home Health Care

The home health industry gained a more significant share of post-acute care admissions after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, new data shows. . There was certainly a feeling at the time that home health agencies were gaining more patient admissions that may have previously gone to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). And while some data has reflected that already, if there was any remaining doubt, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) July 2022 data book should cast that aside.

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Medicare Fee Schedule Changes in 2023

Advanced Data Systems

While we are still in the middle of summer, it’s prudent to look ahead to next year to prepare for potential changes in how your medical practice will receive payments for services rendered. Whether your patient population currently consists mostly of Medicare patients or only a portion, it’s imperative to stay on top of regulations and updates that the government issues regarding healthcare coverage.

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Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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July 2022 CMS Quarterly OASIS Q&As

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS has posted the July 2022 CMS Quarterly OASIS Q&As. The 4-page document addresses these questions: Copyright references for developing electronic or paper-based documentation D0150/D0160 – agency forgot to complete the Patient Mood Interview when completing the patient’s Discharge assessment Under which conditions D0150 – Patient Mood Interview (PHQ-2 to 9) should be stopped after completing D0150A and D01

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Healthcare Facilities of the Future

Healthcare Leadership

Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas – via Cleveland Clinic Newsroom. Over the past several weeks, I’ve been thinking about the design of healthcare facilities given our new reality of pandemics, climate disasters, and mass-casualty events. Is there a better way to design healthcare facilities to accommodate for these types of events?

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More spending has lead to better health outcomes

Healthcare ECONOMIST

That is according to a paper by Weaver et al. (2022). The authors use expenditure data from the Disease Expenditure Project and DALYs from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Evaluating the data from 1996-2016, the authors find that: Across all causes of health care spending and disease burden, median spending was US$114,339 per DALY [disability-adjusted life year] averted between 1996 and 2016.

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Healthie Raises $16M to Enable Infrastructure Platform for Digital Health Companies

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Healthie , a New York City-based infrastructure platform for digital health companies raises $16M in an oversubscribed Series A round led by Velvet Sea Ventures with participation from Greymatter Capital , Watershed, Builders VC and a customer syndicate. – Over 60 angels with deep healthcare and tech experience also participated in the financing, including Roushan Zenooz, Executive Chairman of Primary Health, B12 CEO Nitesh Banta, Rafid Fadul, former CMO at Wh

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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Changes in Ownership of Skilled Nursing Facilities from 2016 to 2021: Variations by Geographic Location and Quality 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “Newly released CMS skilled nursing facilities (SNF) Change of Ownership data (CHOW) data allows for a better understanding of how the nursing home ownership financial structures are changing. A total of 3,258 SNFs have been sold since 2016. Roughly 3.5% of skilled nursing facilities are sold in the US each year since then.

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Inovalon Launches Race & Ethnicity Data Enrichment Offering for Health Plans

HIT Consultant

– What You Should Know: Inovalon , a provider of cloud-based software solutions empowering data-driven healthcare unveils a new data enrichment offering that allows health plans to improve the completeness and accuracy of race and ethnicity data for their members. – By using algorithms uniquely available through the Inovalon ONE ® Platform , the new offering fills in information gaps that can lead to care disparities across member populations and helps plans meet new stratification r

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July 2022 Update of Appendix B – RAI 3.0 User’s Manual 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The July 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. To ensure accurate formatting, use a current version of Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this PDF.

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Curana & Innovaccer Partner to Improve Outcomes for Senior Living Communities

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced that Curana Health is partnering with Innovaccer to build a leading edge value-based care solution to support delivery of exceptional care quality at the lowest possible cost for one of healthcare’s highest risk populations: residents in senior living communities across the country. – Together, Curana Health and Innovaccer will build an industry-leading value-based-care toolkit using the Innovaccer He

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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OIG Audits: Nursing Home Life Safety and Emergency Preparedness in Eight States Identified Noncompliance With Federal Requirements and Opportunities for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to Improve Resident, Visitor and Staff Safety   

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. “In 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated its life safety and emergency preparedness regulations to improve protections for all Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, including those residing in nursing homes. These updates expanded requirements related to sprinkler systems and smoke detector coverage.

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Who’s Exempt from Living the Company Values?

Baird Group

It can be hard to take an honest look at your company values and what needs to change in your culture. Especially when doing so requires that you change your own behavior. And yet, that is exactly what happens when, during culture assessments, we discover certain people are exempt from the values and standards. Holding up the mirror shows leaders just how their “free passes” are eroding their credibility and impeding the development of a healthy, collaborative, and accountable culture.

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Morning Headlines 7/20/22

HIStalk

Columbus tech company Olive lays off 450 employees Healthcare automation.

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Home Health Agency PEPPER Available

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Q4CY21 release of the Home Health Agency (HHA) Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) is now available for download through the PEPPER Resources Portal. To obtain the HHA PEPPER: Review the Portal Access Instructions for accessing the HHA PEPPER on the Distribution Schedule page.

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

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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News 7/20/22

HIStalk

Top News Healthcare automation vendor Olive AI lays off 450.

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HHCN Staffing Summit: A Discussion with Axxess

Home Health Care

This article is sponsored by Axxess. This article is based on an HHCN Staffing Summit discussion with Deborah R. Hoyt, Senior Vice President of Public Policy, Arlene Maxim, Senior Vice President of Clinical Services and Tammy Ross, Senior Vice President of Professional Services for Axxess. The discussion took place on May 26, 2022. The discussion has been edited for length and clarity.

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CMMC Level 2 Compliant Awareness Training Program Blog

Etactics

Now that we’ve reviewed the training requirements under the CMMC Level 1 practices, let’s discuss those found in Level 2. It’s important to remember that the CMMC Levels are cumulative. Organizations handling CUI will need to perform these practices in addition to those we already discussed for Level 1. All employees should take the CMMC Level 1 training but that may not be the case for CMMC Level 2.

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Gas ‘N Healthcare – How Transportation Links to Health Care Access and Financial Health

Health Populi

Some patients dealing with cancer at Mercy Health’s Lourdes Hospital have been supplied with gas cards. This gesture is enabling families to get to medical appointments around Paducah, Kentucky where, this week, car drivers faced regular gas priced at an average of $4.16 a gallon compared with $2.92 one year ago. Here’s the Hospital’s Facebook page featuring their gratitude to FiveStar Food Mart, the American Cancer Society, and the Mercy Health Foundation. “By providing

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

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.