Wed.Nov 30, 2022

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UnitedHealth Group projects up to $360B in 2023 revenue, buoyed by Optum growth

Health Care Dive

The projected revenue growth comes after the Department of Justice announced this month it would appeal a federal judge’s decision that allowed UnitedHealth’s $13 billion purchase of Change Healthcare to close.

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Amid 'tripledemic,' text-based pediatric care startup Summer Health extends free trials to parents

Fierce Healthcare

Amid 'tripledemic,' text-based pediatric care startup Summer Health extends free trials to parents. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 11/30/2022 - 15:30.

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Ousted MetroHealth CEO, facing embezzlement allegations, sues hospital over termination

Health Care Dive

Akram Boutros’ lawsuit alleges that MetroHealth’s board members were participating in secret deliberations outside of public meetings, violating the law during the hiring process for incoming CEO Airica Steed.

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Mental health providers decry 'mind-numbing' prior authorization burdens as Senate debates reforms

Fierce Healthcare

Mental health providers decry 'mind-numbing' prior authorization burdens as Senate debates reforms. rking. Wed, 11/30/2022 - 13:13.

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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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Hospitals to end year with negative margins, Kaufman Hall reports

Health Care Dive

Labor expenses rose 3% from September to October and total expenses rose 1%, while supply and drug expenses fell slightly during the month.

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How tech companies are using AI to tackle clinician burnout, administrative burdens

Fierce Healthcare

How tech companies are using AI to tackle clinician burnout, administrative burdens. aburky. Wed, 11/30/2022 - 14:21.

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Texas hospitals warn of rural closures, care delays and service cuts without legislative support

Fierce Healthcare

Texas hospitals warn of rural closures, care delays and service cuts without legislative support. dmuoio. Wed, 11/30/2022 - 16:50.

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Advocate Aurora plans to hike rates at Wisconsin locations

Health Care Dive

The Midwest hospital system said the increases are necessary to offset continued market and industry challenges compounded by inflation, inadequate reimbursement rates and ripple effects from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Study comparing surgical masks to N95s stirs controversy

Fierce Healthcare

Study comparing surgical masks to N95s stirs controversy. fdiamond. Wed, 11/30/2022 - 15:58.

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Five Factors to Watch as the Chinese Communist Party Faces Protests

The Rand Blog

It may be too soon to compare protests against China's zero-COVID policy to the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement. But looking back to 1989 still provides valuable insights into what might happen next.

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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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AWS launches new genomics data service for life sciences, healthcare companies

Fierce Healthcare

AWS launches new genomics data service for life sciences, healthcare companies. hlandi. Wed, 11/30/2022 - 14:21.

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Intelligence Work Is Exciting. And Traumatizing

The Rand Blog

The intelligence community needs to communicate to its workforce about the varied forms of trauma, how it affects individuals, and what resources exist to help. Protecting the intelligence workforce can help protect us all.

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Industry Voices—Ageism through the lens of healthcare disparities

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—Ageism through the lens of healthcare disparities. aellison. Wed, 11/30/2022 - 16:37.

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Humana Plans To Close Majority Of Its SeniorBridge Home Care Locations

Home Health Care

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) plans to close shop at most of its SeniorBridge locations before the end of year. SeniorBridge is a home-based care organization that offers complex chronic care management for seniors. The organization’s care management team includes nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers and caregivers. Humana originally acquired SeniorBridge back in 2012 as a part of a larger effort to shift more care into the home.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

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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8 QUESTIONS Every Health Plan Should Ask a Healthcare Analytics & Technology Partner

Fierce Healthcare

8 QUESTIONS Every Health Plan Should Ask a Healthcare Analytics & Technology Partner. ncapone. Wed, 11/30/2022 - 14:05.

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Politics of Ukrainian Reconstruction

The Rand Blog

When fighting subsides, Ukraine may undergo reconstruction on the scale of the post–World War II Marshall Plan. Debate is ramping up about core issues, such as the scope of reconstruction, sources of funding, and reforms needed for success. Ukraine and the West might begin now to forge consensus on these issues.

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What Happens When You Remove ‘Care’ from Our Healthcare System?

Fierce Healthcare

What Happens When You Remove ‘Care’ from Our Healthcare System? jpiatt. Wed, 11/30/2022 - 09:59.

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Specialty Pharma’s Next Big Opportunity: It’s Time for Patient Access to Adopt an Open Protocol

HIT Consultant

Yishai Knobel, CEO and co-founder of RxWare. In January 2020, the financial conglomerate Visa announced it was acquiring a relatively unknown startup, Plaid, for $5.3 billion. Corporate acquisitions like these are not uncommon, but someone at the United States Department of Justice took notice of this announcement. Visa had established a stranglehold on financial transactions.

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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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Industry Voices—We can't wait for a miracle Alzheimer's drug

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—We can't wait for a miracle Alzheimer's drug. hlandi. Wed, 11/30/2022 - 08:13.

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KLAS: State of Value-Based Care Reimbursement in 2022 Trends

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Value-based care (VBC) has been established as a priority among healthcare organizations and payers as participants have gained more experience in managing their quality metrics and contracts, ultimately realizing returns on their investments. – For their latest report, Value-Based Care Reimbursement 2022, KLAS talked to 54 healthcare executives—including CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CMIOs, COOs, VPs and directors of population health , and VPs of analytics—to gauge how

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New bill aims to reform CMS' drug coverage authority after controversial Aduhelm decision

Fierce Healthcare

New bill aims to reform CMS' drug coverage authority after controversial Aduhelm decision. rking. Wed, 11/30/2022 - 16:20.

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After Honor’s Acquisition, Some Home Instead Franchisees Aren’t Buying In – Yet

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership. Anytime a company gets a new owner with a new vision, it’s almost inevitable there will be dissent. That’s even more likely when it comes to franchisers being bought up in home-based care, given the individual franchisee owners involved. . Sign up for HHCN + to read this exclusive content. Individual Membership $400 per year.

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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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Why providers, payers should be paying attention to stigma around long COVID

Fierce Healthcare

Why providers, payers should be paying attention to stigma around long COVID. fdiamond. Wed, 11/30/2022 - 07:02.

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Disrupt Podcast #63: Matt Wolfe, Shareholder, Baker Donelson

Home Health Care

The 63rd episode of our podcast, Disrupt, is now available! For this episode of Disrupt, Home Health Care News sat down with Matt Wolfe, a shareholder at the law firm Baker Donelson, to chat about the most important legal trends for home health agencies to pay attention to heading into 2023. Listen to this episode of Disrupt to learn about: – The macro and micro legal trends surrounding the home health industry – What specific issues agencies should be most focused on – What agencies can do in o

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Highmark posts $268M loss across three quarters as investments, labor issues ding finances

Fierce Healthcare

Highmark posts $268M loss across three quarters as investments, labor issues ding finances. pminemyer. Wed, 11/30/2022 - 15:45.

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How The Delivery Of HCBS Has Changed In The U.S. Since The Pandemic

Home Health Care

In order to aid home- and community-based services, states are increasing provider payments to stave off the effects of workforce shortages. Plenty of states have also increased self-directed and family caregiving opportunities for HCBS beneficiaries throughout the pandemic. Those are two of the main takeaways from a recent study done by the Kaiser Family Foundation that took a closer look at the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Medicaid HCBS programs.

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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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October's labor woes drive higher costs, worsened margins for hospitals: Kaufman Hall

Fierce Healthcare

October's labor woes drive higher costs, worsened margins for hospitals: Kaufman Hall. dmuoio. Wed, 11/30/2022 - 11:32.

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How to link your PDSA to other elements of your project in Life QI

Life Qi

In our previous articles we introduced how PDSAs can be created in Life QI. We went through the four stages of the cycle and gave some useful tips on how to execute them. In this article, we would like to focus on the importance of creating connections between the PDSA cycles and other assets of your project to make sure you have everything in one place at your fingertips when it comes to analysing the results.

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Action Required: Register for an iQIES Account

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. As previously announced, CMS is preparing to release the Internet-facing, cloud-based system, referred to as the Internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES) for Minimum Data Set (MDS) submission, in early 2023. Although the MDS submission functionality will not be available immediately, we strongly encourage users to request access to iQIES as soon as possible, as doing so will allow for a smoother transition p

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Omnichannel, Hybrid Health Care Is Happening – Let’s Bake It with Access and Equity

Health Populi

In just the past few months, we’ve seen the launch of Amazon Care, Instacart adding medical deliveries, and The Villages senior community welcoming virtual care to their homes. Welcome to the growing ecosystem of hybrid health care, anywhere and everywhere. In my latest post on the Medecision portal, I discuss the phenomenon and examples of early models, focusing in on Evernorth, a Cigna company.

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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.